Zero Hour
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 5h it's 1 in 7 (15%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 81% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 82% of owners got the first achievement.
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 33,854 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 6.7h for positive, 2.8h 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 (81.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (25)
story milestone ending side
- Prepared & Ready You have gone through the training ground tutorial 100%
- Bomb Specialist Defuse a bomb 36%
- Grenadier Get your first grenade kill 15%
- Hawk Eye Place and Utilize Spy Cam 14%
- Lone Wolf Survive a 1v1 situation 12%
- Gun Shift Pick up the attacker’s gun 8.1%
- Best Friend Forever Take your K9 into a mission 6.2%
- Tasting Justice Your K9's first bite in a mission 5.0%
- Bomber Get a C4 kill 4.3%
- Booby Trap Get a kill with a door trap 3.2%
- Cuffed and Stuffed Perform 10 arrests in co-op 3.2%
- Savior Extract hostage 2.7%
- Bird Of Prey Reach Tier 9 2.7%
- ACE! Kill all of the enemy team single-handedly 1.8%
- Bootcamp Get a good Training Ground Time 1.2%
- Minotaur Reach Tier 6 1.1%
- Above and Beyond Complete Paradise City with a score of 80 or more 1.1%
- Wings Of Steel Reach Top Tier 1.0%
- The Roc Reach Tier 4 1.0%
- Venomous Reach Tier 2 1.0%
- Killer Instinct Arrest Abul Kashem 0.9%
- Enemy of the State Arrest Ahmed Al Zoori 0.6%
- On a Roll Complete a 10 day daily challenge streak 0.4%
- A Regular Joe Complete all co-op missions in regular with 100 score 0.4%
- No Room for Error Complete all co-op missions in hardcore with 100 score 0.4%