Battle Shapers

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,163 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 11.6h for positive, 3.5h 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 (72.7% 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 (52)

• A First of Many Discover your first Cipher. 100%
• Gotta Go Fast Unlock the Dash. 98%
• Chain Reaction Kill 2 enemies with a single Takedown explosion. 90%
• Welcome to the Resistance Clear the lower floor of any tower. 88%
• Whole Again Unlock the Adamant Core. 73%
• Bounce Back Kill an enemy using a bullet Ricochet. 70%
• Unlocked and Loaded Decode 5 Ciphers in the Cipher Cloud. 68%
• Master of the Elements Cause a single enemy to be simultaneously affected by Shock, Pyro and Vibro. 65%
• Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Kill Wind Magistrate for the first time. 57%
• Connoisseur Find 10 Lore collectibles. 54%
• Trash Compactor Kill Volt Colossus for the first time. 52%
• They Could Have Taken the Eagles Vault over a flying enemy. 52%
• Right Back At You Reflect an Overlord's attack using the Adamant Core's Outburst ability. 50%
• Bug Stomper Kill Strike Mantis for the first time. 49%
• Keep it Classy Defeat an enemy while it's taunting you. 47%
• Endless Possibilities Unlock the Affinity Amplifier. 44%
• Divide and Conquer Liberate two towers in a single run. 44%
• Track and Field Clear a Shaper Rift parkour challenge. 40%
• Windborne Warrior Unlock the Wind Core. 36%
• Amped Up Unlock the Volt Core. 35%
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Unlock the Strike Core. 35%
• Can’t Touch This Clear a Shaper Rift combat challenge without getting hit once. 30%
• An Eye for an Eye Destroy all the Oculi in the lobby of the Orbital Complex. 26%
• Always Time for a Little Chat Have a chat with Huck and Hauly. 25%
• I'm Doing My Part! Recycle 50 gear items. 25%
• Legendary Equip a Legendary weapon or ability. 22%
• Foot Soldier Get kicked by a Grunt. 20%
• The Anomaly Kill VerOS for the first time. 19%
• You're Already Dead Kill 3 enemies with a single use of your Strike Core’s Overkill ability. 16%
• Smashing Good Times Shatter the corruption crystals of 100 enemies. 15%
• You Might Need Glasses Clear the Oculi Wall challenge without getting hit by the Evil Oculi. 14%
• Line 'Em Up Pierce 5 enemies with a single shot. 13%
• Beta Access Complete a run at Beta Difficulty Level. 11%
• Punching Upwards Kill an Overlord with your Punch. 11%
• Orb Ponderer Have 3 Volt Orbs be active at the same time. 9.6%
• Pocket Reload Complete a full run without manually reloading any of your weapons. 8.7%
• Modded to Perfection Install 5 Uncommon or Rare modifiers onto a single gear modifier slot. 8.4%
• Gamma Access Complete a run at Gamma Difficulty Level. 7.6%
• Well Caffeinated Have 5 stacks of Surge, Haste and Rapidfire at the same time. 6.2%
• Delta Access Complete a run at Delta Difficulty Level. 5.8%
• Floor is Lava Using the Wind Core, remain airborne for at least 10 seconds in a single combat. 4.8%
• Seance Talk with each one of the 3 Overlords' Apparitions. 4.8%
• Omega Access Complete a run at Omega Difficulty Level and get the True Ending. 4.1%
• Knock 'Em Down Kill 5 enemies with a single explosion. 4.0%
• Making a Point Complete a full run with your starting weapon, 'The Argument'. 3.9%
• Blood Donor Open a Blood Vault while being below 50% health. 3.7%
• Making Meemories Have 10 optional conversations with Meemo in the Hideout. 2.6%
• Triple Threat Have 3 Turrets be active at the same time. 2.1%
• Against All Odds Complete a run with every single Memory Fragment Effect activated. 1.5%
• Quad-Core Conqueror Complete at least one run with each Core set as your Primary Core. 1.5%
• Carpe Diem Earn a total of 3000 points in Daily Challenges. 1.1%
• Junk Food Consume 50 Nuts n Bolts. 0.8%