Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (64%); after 7h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 92% of games we track.
- 100% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 46% 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 46,407 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10.9h 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 (46.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Tea Time Finish single player 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 (27)
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- Tea Time Finish single player on any difficulty. 100%
- Love from Above Destroy 4 trucks with 4 drone strikes before they reach the end of their path in 'The Embassy'. 89%
- Driver's Ed Shoot the driver of the suicide truck. 83%
- Pit Stop Stop three APCs with Hadir's sniper rifle. 78%
- Trigger Discipline Do not injure any civilians in 'Piccadilly'. 60%
- Long Way Down Crash a helicopter by shooting the pilot. 56%
- Nothing but Net Neutralize the 'Fog of War' machine gun with a frag grenade. 41%
- Lights Out Shut off the power to 4 buildings in 'Going Dark'. 27%
- Hang Time Kill 3 enemies while you are on a ladder. 26%
- Got Something on Your Face Spit on Barkov. 22%
- Press [BOOM] to Defuse Blow up 3 tripwires with explosives. 21%
- Wall Hax Save Alpha 3-2 from being downed. 20%
- Play Dead Kill all the enemies in the 'Embedded' field of dead bodies. 18%
- Two Birds Kill both soldiers with one shot in 'Hometown'. 17%
- Ashes to Ashes Burn 4 enemies with a single molotov. 16%
- Out of the Fire Complete every single player mission on Veteran or Realism difficulty. 11%
- Dodged a Bullet Never get hit by the sniper while escaping captivity. 9.7%
- Hot Swap Get at least one kill with eight different weapons when completing 'Old Comrades'. 6.5%
- Companion Block Only use one cinder block and bring it to the end of 'Embedded'. 5.4%
- Wild Fire Take down a flying helicopter with a molotov. 5.2%
- We Own the Night Kill all enemies at the Church, Clocktower, and Pool without anyone calling for backup. 5.0%
- Good Effect on Target Kill an enemy with a direct hit from a smoke grenade. 5.0%
- Circus Tour Kill at least one enemy while inside The Reading Place, Aural Chic, and both Subway undergrounds. 4.7%
- Tunnel Rat Complete 'The Wolf's Den' tunnels using only the 1911. 4.7%
- Warheads on Foreheads Reach Barkov's lab entrance using only drone strikes. 4.7%
- Golden Path Complete 'Clean House' without being hit using one bullet per threat. 4.5%
- Liberation Complete all Special Operations missions. 3.9%