Just Cause™ 3
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (48%); after 20h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Enjoy Your Homecoming” (Complete Story Mission: Welcome Home) and “What a Disaster” (Complete Story Mission: A Terrible Reaction): from 100% to 57% of starters.
- 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 128,701 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 14.4h for positive, 3.2h 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 (81.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Enjoy Your Homecoming Complete Story Mission: Welcome Home. 100%
- What a Disaster Complete Story Mission: A Terrible Reaction. Most players quit here 57% −43
- F!#& YOU, MISSILE Complete Story Mission: Missile Cowboy. 40% −17
- The Power of Bavarium Complete Story Mission: A Long and Dangerous Road. 32% −8
- Finally on the Offensive Complete Story Mission: Tangled Up In Blue. 28% −4
- These Mines are the Pits Complete Story Mission: The Great Escape. 25% −3
- Mistakes and Triumphs Complete Story Mission: The Shatterer of Worlds. 21% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (66)
story milestone ending side
- Enjoy Your Homecoming Complete Story Mission: Welcome Home. 100%
- (Just) Causin' Chaos Get 1,000 Chaos. 98%
- Vive le Revolution Liberate a Province. 72%
- First Encounter Complete an Encounter. 69%
- MOD Initiate Unlock your first Gear MOD, and then activate it. 60%
- Getting it in Gear Earn at least 3 Gears in a Challenge. 59%
- What a Disaster Complete Story Mission: A Terrible Reaction. 57%
- Baker's Dozen Liberate 13 settlements. 57%
- Chaos is My Middle Name Get 100,000 Chaos. 56%
- Earth, Wind and Sea Unlock Rebel Drops for at least one land vehicle, one air vehicle, and one sea vehicle. 52%
- Take That, You Pipeline Jerks Disable the FOW in Insula Fonte. 45%
- You've Got Gear Earn 5 Gears in a Challenge. 43%
- Bragging Rights Beat another player's score in a Challenge. 41%
- F!#& YOU, MISSILE Complete Story Mission: Missile Cowboy. 40%
- Three Holy Hideaways Unlock 3 Heat-Clearing Priests by completing Encounters. 39%
- Hope Springs Eternal Completely liberate Insula Fonte. 33%
- The Power of Bavarium Complete Story Mission: A Long and Dangerous Road. 32%
- Finally on the Offensive Complete Story Mission: Tangled Up In Blue. 28%
- Taming the Dracon Completely liberate Insula Dracon. 25%
- These Mines are the Pits Complete Story Mission: The Great Escape. 25%
- Mistakes and Triumphs Complete Story Mission: The Shatterer of Worlds. 21%
- Son of Medici Complete Story Mission: Son of Medici. 21%
- Stock-Keeping Defeat 1 of each Drone type. 20%
- Chaos Millionaire Get 1,000,000 Chaos. 20%
- MOD Specialist Unlock every Gear MOD in a single category. 20%
- My Little Rocket Man Tether an enemy to a launched gas cannister. Adeo, amico! 19%
- Break a Leg! Defeat the "Old Friend" (Boss at the end of "Taking Control"). 19%
- Like a Fish... in the Air! Use the Bavarium Wingsuit to take off from water. 18%
- I Should Buy A Boat Get the Rocket Boat, also known as "The Loochador". 18%
- One Mech of a Ride Hijack your first Mech. 18%
- Top of the World Stand on foot at the highest point of Medici. 16%
- Heart of Stone Completely liberate Insula Striate. 15%
- My Name is Eden Beat the last mission of the Sky Fortress Expansion and complete the story arc. 15%
- Free Birds Liberate 3 Detention Camps. 15%
- Look at the Sly Fox Use the Barrel Roll to evade 10 incoming missiles. 15%
- Loochador Master Defeat 5 enemy helicopters with the Rocket Boat. 14%
- Lightning Bolt! Defeat 1 enemy helicopter using the eDEN Spark. 14%
- One Last Score Beat the last mission of the Bavarium Sea Heist expansion and complete the story arc. 14%
- In the Heart of Darkness Beat the last mission of the Mech Land Assault Expansion and complete the story arc. 13%
- A Real Gear-Getter Earn at least 3 Gears in one Challenge of every type. 12%
- You're Outta Here! Plant a Booster Explosive on an enemy soldier. Then send them flying. 12%
- Quite the Connoisseur Earn at least 1 Gear in all Challenges of the Sky Fortress Expansion. 10%
- This was Supposed to be a Western Destroy all Chaos Objects in a Base without leaving your vehicle. 10%
- Certified eDEN Mech Operator Earn at least 1 Gear in all Challenges of the Mech Land Assault Expansion. 7.3%
- MOD Tinkerer Have every Gear MOD active for at least 1 minute each. 6.5%
- Tomb Raider Pay your respects at every Ancient Tomb. 6.2%
- Diary of the Madman Gather all of Di Ravello's tapes. 6.1%
- Staying Power Defeat 10 enemies with the same eDEN Spark strike. 5.9%
- Old School Cool Find every vintage weapon and vehicle part. 5.9%
- Remember the Fallen Light a candle at every Rebel Shrine. 5.7%
- Consummate Daredevil Launch a land vehicle off of every Daredevil Jump in Medici. 5.1%
- A True Master Earn 5 Gears in all Challenges of the Sky Fortress Expansion. 4.8%
- Winner Takes All, Again 100% Just Cause 3. 4.8%
- Supply and Demand Unlock 10 Resupply Points by completing Encounters. 4.6%
- No Stone Unturned Find every collectible strewn across Medici. 4.6%
- eDEN Employee of the Year Earn 5 Gears in all Challenges of the Mech Land Assault Expansion. 4.5%
- Feat Fetish Perform every Feat. 4.4%
- This Is Not A Fireball Destroy 30 enemy vehicles using the Mech's Force Pulse. 4.2%
- Unlocked and Fully Loaded Unlock every weapon and vehicle available in the Rebel Drop menu. 4.2%
- ...Without Bullets! Destroy every Chaos Object in a Military Base without weapons, grenades, or planted explosives. 3.9%
- Can't Touch This Call-Out another player in a Feat. 3.7%
- Caught 'Em All! Collect every vehicle available by bringing them to Mario's Rebel Garages. 3.7%
- Forgive Me, Father... Take sanctuary in a monastery to clear Heat Level 5. 3.4%
- All the Gears Earn 5 Gears in every Challenge. 3.4%
- The Flying Medician Defeat 10 enemy vehicles while in the air with the Rocket Boat. 3.1%
- Anything You Can Do... Beat a score you were Called-Out on. 2.8%