SimulationStrategy
KAISERPUNK
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 71% positive of 961
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (44%); after 4h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- 92% 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 976 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 5.8h for positive, 8.8h 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 (91.5% 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 (51)
- Production Line Establish a direct resource transport link between two buildings 100%
- Village Reach a population of 1000 residents in your city 69%
- Alignment Choose your first social pillar 66%
- Mastering The Basics Finish the first tutorial episode 65%
- Annihilation Destroy an enemy army 51%
- Play With Matches Have a fire event destroy a single building 44%
- The Navigator Finish the second tutorial episode 43%
- Lord Of War Successfully conclude a military deal with another faction 36%
- Dereliction Of Duty Have your people rebel against your rule 33%
- Attention! Fill all 8 unit slots in a single army 31%
- Graduation Finish the tutorial 30%
- The Closing Play Finish the third tutorial episode 29%
- Exploitation Completely extract a natural resource 28%
- Eating Boots And Belts Army supply reaches "poor" status 27%
- Gaining Sea Legs Deploy your first fleet 24%
- Growing Wings Deploy your first air squadron 19%
- Kaiserpunk FM Build a Radio station 18%
- Downfall Lose a game 16%
- To The Skies Build your first skyscraper 16%
- Town Reach a population of 5000 residents in your city 16%
- Animal Farm Build 10 Ranches 13%
- Business Conglomerate Have a market, a tradeport and an airport at the same time 7.5%
- Flagged Change your flag design during a session 7.5%
- Sea Wolf Win 5 naval battles 6.4%
- Real Estate Agent Build 500 housing units of any kind 6.3%
- Over Troubled Waters Build 25 bridges 6.1%
- City Reach a population of 10000 residents in your city 5.7%
- Independence! Region stability reaches 0 and rebels against you 5.0%
- A Friend! Secure an alliance with a faction 4.5%
- Fire It Up! Have 50 buildings destroyed by fire 4.0%
- Ruins Of A Nation Destroy an empire 3.8%
- Blitzkrieg From the moment you declare war on enemy faction, conquer its home region in 1 in-game month 2.7%
- Impetuous Conquer West Balkans without a tank unit 2.7%
- Land Bridge Conquer Asia Minor in the tutorial without using fleets 2.5%
- Valued Customer Trade 100 times in a single playthrough 2.3%
- Rockefeller Reach 100,000,000 in Cash 1.4%
- Victor! Win a game 1.4%
- Never-ending War Be at war continuously for longer than 1 in-game year 1.3%
- Megalopolis Reach a population of 20000 residents in your city 1.2%
- Life Of Leisure Produce 1,000,000 of any luxuries 0.7%
- Convincing Secure an alliance with a faction that has an opposite political stance 0.4%
- Utopia Have Needs, Safety, Education and Morale for all citizen classes in your city at 100 0.4%
- Master Of The World Conquer all regions 0.3%
- Al Norte Starting in South America, conquer both North and South America 0.2%
- Braving The Winter Starting in Central Europe, conquer the whole of Asia 0.2%
- How Tables Have Turned Starting in Africa, conquer all of Europe 0.2%
- White House Upgrade your city center to the maximum level 0.2%
- Again? Starting in the British Isles region, conquer Deccan, Australia and South Africa 0.1%
- Farm Boy Produce 1,000,000 Wheat 0.1%
- Five-Star Governor Complete all achievements 0.1%
- Lumberjack Produce 1,000,000 Wood 0.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.