Call of Duty®: Vanguard
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (69%); after 10h it's 1 in 4 (24%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 95% of games we track.
- 100% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 55% 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 4,491 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 8.7h for positive, 6.9h 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 (54.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Phoenix Extinguished Beat Call of Duty: Vanguard Campaign on any difficulty. 100%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (44)
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- Phoenix Extinguished Beat Call of Duty: Vanguard Campaign on any difficulty. 100%
- Allies Together, Strong In The Fourth Reich, use Leadership to help takedown a Jäger Mörder. 99%
- She'll be Right Mate In the battle of El Alamein, get twice as many kills as Des during the final defend. 84%
- F In Campaign, have your own grenade explode on you. 82%
- Order in Chaos In The Fourth Reich, go through the level without any instances of friendly fire. 82%
- Actions Speak Louder than Words In Operation Tonga, protect Evans with quick reflexes. 65%
- Couldn't Have Done it Without You Watch the credits to completion. 48%
- Hello There Start the Campaign. 42%
- Leaving an Impression In the battle of El Alamein, get run over by a tank. Be more careful next time... 42%
- Rain of Fire In Stalingrad, hit a halftrack with a Molotov Cocktail. 36%
- Pied Piper In The Rats of Tobruk, lead the Rats through the desert without getting detected. 36%
- Bird of Prey In Lady Nightingale, kill 5 snipers across the open field without getting hit by them. 35%
- Beware of Trains In Phoenix, shoot a truck driver transporting a vehicle full of soldiers. 34%
- Survivalist In Numa Numa Trail, find Mateo without firing a bullet. 34%
- Leet Skills Reach level 55 in Multiplayer. 30%
- Deal With the Devil Equip 3 Covenants. 19%
- Bling Pro 2.0 Reach max level with a weapon (base game weapons only). 17%
- Thirst Quencher Drink from all 5 Demonic Fountains in a single session. 16%
- Only You Can Prevent Friendly Casualties In Operation Tonga, throw smoke from the anti-tank ditch to provide cover for the charge. 15%
- Baker's Dozen Sacrifice 13 Hearts. 15%
- Top of the Mountain Reach max level with an operator in Multiplayer (base game operators only). 14%
- Untouchable In Numa Numa Trail, avoid getting hit by the sniper. 13%
- Shocking Behavior Eliminate 10 zombies that were damaged by the Energy Mine Artifact. 12%
- Hot Tempered Eliminate 10 zombies while your damage is increased by the Ring of Fire Artifact. 9.7%
- That's Definitely Not a Knife In the Rats of Tobruk, bring down the Stuka with a pistol, grenade or rocket. 9.1%
- The Tip of the Spear Beat Call of Duty: Vanguard Campaign on Veteran difficulty. 7.3%
- Slow But Deadly In The Battle of Midway, help 5 threatened Allies during the dogfight. 6.7%
- Grim Reaper Eliminate 10,000 zombies. 5.1%
- Legend in the Making In Stalingrad, protect the Partisans without missing a shot. 4.6%
- Death Dealer In Der Anfang, eliminate 2500 zombies with a Pack-a-Punch level 3 weapon. 3.8%
- Duck and Dive In The Battle of Midway, avoid getting hit by bullets during the first Dive-Bomb. 2.9%
- Ticket Please In Phoenix, kill 15 enemies while standing atop a train car roof. 2.6%
- Escape Artist While using the Aether Shroud Artifact, enter the Aether Shroud 5 times with less than 25% health. 2.6%
- As Cold as Ice Eliminate 10 zombies via melee that have been slowed by the Frost Blast Artifact. 2.0%
- Behind You In Lady Nightingale, take out all of Steiner's troops in the department store using only takedowns. 1.8%
- Did I Get 'Em? In Campaign, get 15 kills using Blind Fire. 1.5%
- Gotta Try Them All! In Campaign, kill enemies with 15 different weapons throughout the game. 1.5%
- Heightened Senses As Wade, kill 15 enemies using the focus ability. 1.5%
- Munition Magpie In Campaign, scavenge ammo from 15 enemy corpses within 3 seconds of killing them. 1.5%
- Not Your Fairy Godmother In Campaign, throw back 15 grenades that would have killed or damaged your allies. 1.5%
- OH YEAH! In Campaign, tactical sprint through 5 destructible walls. 1.5%
- Pocket Full of Fun As Lucas, use 4 types of lethal equipment, getting 3 kills with each. 1.5%
- Pop Goes the Nightingale As Polina, kill 15 enemies immediately after emerging from a crawlspace. 1.5%
- Shot Caller Give 15 different commands to your allies as Arthur. 1.5%