Strategy
Field of Glory: Empires
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 100h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 70% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 870
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (38%); after 100h it's 1 in 15 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 100.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 70% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 875 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 44.1h for positive, 10h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (69.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (20)
- First Blood Win a battle with any nation 100%
- From rumble to rubble Win a siege against a walled city (by assault or surrender) 74%
- The great delegator Create your first province 64%
- First among equals Raise a provincial unit 62%
- Hands across the ocean Make peace with someone 57%
- Player of games Play a battle in Field of Glory II and win it. 37%
- When the mind is thinking Manage to gain five progress tokens. 37%
- Master Architect Build your first Tier III building (any category) 36%
- Decadent, me? Become a decadent nation... 31%
- In gold we trust Accumulate 10.000 Money 28%
- We are legion Own 150 units (soldiers or ships) 24%
- Fleeting moment Trigger a Golden Age 21%
- Eye of the storm Be in 8 or more wars at once 17%
- Master and Servant As a client-state, break your treaty with your Protector 10%
- Short but sweet Win a short scenario (less than fifty turns long) 7.2%
- Bigger Better Stronger Build the Coliseum, a tier III Culture building. 6.7%
- One for the Ages Win the grand campaign 6.2%
- Blindingly superior Build the Great Lighthouse, a tier III Commerce building. 1.4%
- Graze of glory As Skythia, own 3 Nomad herds buildings. 1.3%
- Helios, Sun-Giver Build the Colossus, a tier III Commerce building 1.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.