Find The Needle stats: hours played and daily players

GAME STATSCasualIndieSimulationEarly Access

You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.

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Find The Needle playtime stats

14 Steam players on record have spent 93 hours in Find The Needle, 6.7 hours each on average; the median player has 5.7 hours. The top 10% have 12 hours or more, while 14% are still under two hours, inside Steam's refund window. Over the last 30 days 0.3% of active players played it, 64 hours in all, most of all on Thursdays. A typical day of play lasts 3.7 hours.

Total playtime

93hEXACT PLAYTIME3 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes= 3.9 days straight
= 93 hours total

across 14 players

Avg per player

6.7h

median 5.7h

Avg day of play

3.7h

per player, on days they play

Loyalty

0.1%

of its players' Steam time · top game for 0 players

New players

first played it in the last 30 days

Achievements

21%

avg unlocked · 0 players at 100%

Find The Needle over time

Avg per player4.9h

Nov 7Nov 13

UTC days. Each line is scaled to its own range; hover a day for the values. Today is still in progress.

Trend

last 30 days vs the 30 before

Share of active players

13 players of 4,701

0.3%

Share of hours played

64h in 30 days

Hours per player

in the last 30 days

4.9h

Shares, not raw counts: more players join every week, so raw totals mostly show our own growth.

Weekday pattern

avg hours, UTC

6.3h on Sundays

5.8h on Mondays

15h on Tuesdays

4.9h on Wednesdays

24h on Thursdays

0.0h on Fridays

7.7h on Saturdays

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat

Busiest on Thursdays, 165% above an average day.

Hours played per day

all players on record, UTC days · hover a day

64h in the last year

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Days played

Playtime on record

64h

Avg per day

11h

Biggest day

24h

Nov 12

Most players

Nov 7

Favorite day

Thursday

Top players

Full leaderboard

1
NotSoPerfect19h
2
Ytha12h
3
Nico11h
4
Phinland9.7h
5
Turgoth7.8h
6
Adrian2435Steel nameEarned at 1,000h playedSteam frameTheir own avatar frame from SteamDedicated titleEarned at 500h playedVERIFIEDThis account's owner signed in through Steam. Profiles without the check were added by someone pasting the link.7.3h
7
WOLF_DIV6.1h
8
RespectableAlien5.3h
9
Nico93er4.5h
10
Crossell3.6h

Top Steam Scores

first to 100% leads

1
NotSoPerfect1,129
2
Nico525
3
Ytha409
4
RespectableAlien276
5
Adrian2435Steel nameEarned at 1,000h playedSteam frameTheir own avatar frame from SteamDedicated titleEarned at 500h playedVERIFIEDThis account's owner signed in through Steam. Profiles without the check were added by someone pasting the link.222
6
Turgoth210
7
Nico93er197
8
Phinland193
9
WOLF_DIV193
10
Crossell151

How long players stay

lifetime hours per player

Under 1h
2 (14%)
1–10h
9 (64%)
10–50h
3 (21%)
50–100h
0 (0%)
100–500h
0 (0%)
500h+
0 (0%)

Median 5.7hTop 25% 9.2h+Top 10% 12h+Top 1% 18h+

14% of players have under 2 hours, inside Steam's refund window.

Top countries

by players on record

Germany5 players1.5% of its players
United States3 players0.2% of its players
France1 player0.6% of its players
Denmark1 player2.1% of its players
United Kingdom1 player0.4% of its players

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