Original War

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 2,182 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 41.1h for positive, 1.9h 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 (73.2% 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 (59)

• To the Past Stepped into the EON 100%
• Cold Feet Don't enter the EON 36%
• Merciful Spare Kurt 30%
• Pacifist Join the Alliance 28%
• American Patriot Stay with Americans 27%
• Radioactive Drop a siberite bomb 24%
• Capitalist Collect over a 1000 crates 24%
• Adversary Kill Gorky 21%
• Employer Employ the mercenaries 21%
• Planet of the Apes In any mission have more Apemen in your service than people 20%
• Madman Before entering the EON attack your own men 19%
• Legion Sympathizer Make Legion join your forces 18%
• God Bless America Complete American campaign on any difficulty 18%
• Russian Patriot Stay with Russians 17%
• Sanctions Prevent the Russians from building their second base 15%
• Mediator Make Lisa and Joan betray Americans 14%
• From Russia with Love Kill Macmillan 13%
• Cadre Complete Tsaritsyn's quiz with all correct answers 13%
• Purge Stay with Platonov 12%
• For Mother Russia Complete Russian campaign on any difficulty 12%
• Motorized Division Build 6 or more solar vehicles 11%
• No one left behind Save all people that land in this mission 8.7%
• My precious Recapture Belkov`s tank from the Americans. 7.8%
• No mercy Kill Mikhail. 7.4%
• Gamesmanship Let the Arab build the mortarmen barracks but don't hand over Heike to them afterwards 7.1%
• Backstabber Hand over the Arabs building mortarmen barracks for you to UPF 6.8%
• True love Help Joan defend Kappa base 6.7%
• Sector cleared Destroy the bunkers on both sides of the cliff. 6.1%
• Brothers in arms Save Vsevolod and all his men. 6.0%
• Miner good team Transport 300 siberite crystals or more to Terminal. 5.7%
• Cleaning party Destroy all Russian buildings on the map (mission Payback Time). 5.3%
• I got this! Defeat the Russians without the help of Major Sikorski 5.3%
• Nothing here, comrades Don't let the two Russian cargo bays escape 5.2%
• Paving the way Kill all apemen at the waterfall before Kirilenkova appears. 4.6%
• For Better Future Complete Alliance campaign on any difficulty. 4.4%
• Liar Lie to Raul Xavier about the Arabians and Kirilenkova. 4.2%
• Moving castle Build a behemoth vehicle. 4.1%
• Fancy a dance, apeman? Tame all apemen on the map (mission Soul of Apeman). 3.8%
• Merciless Kill Kurt. 3.8%
• Rambo Destroy Russian base 3.8%
• One step ahead Get all your men to top side of the map before Andy calls you and tells you to attack 3.7%
• Say NO to imperialistic science Kill Hugh Stevens. 3.7%
• Oh , Hi comrade Rescue Gnyevko after you already destroyed the American base and saved Kirilenkova. 3.6%
• "Brotherly love" Don`t save Vsevolod. 3.4%
• Commando Capture one of the Russian tanks 3.4%
• Decision changed Kill Paul Khattam before he betrays you. 3.4%
• Empty promises Don`t save Scholtze. 3.4%
• Feeding the apes Don`t save Kirilenkova 3.4%
• Missed us? Make the deal with Heike. 3.4%
• Rush Destroy the southern Russian base before it's fully built 3.4%
• Officer decline Lose Jeff Brown and Lucy Donaldson. 3.1%
• Negligence Don't save the people south of the river 3.0%
• Like a wind Finish 5th mission before 15 minutes 2.9%
• Every man for himself Don`t save anyone. 2.7%
• Deep cut Take over or destroy every American building on the map. 2.6%
• Can't feel the love tonight Let Joan die 2.5%
• Meet my bro Vsevolod I. Gorki appeared in the last mission of the American campaign. 2.2%
• Power of the One Destroy Omicron without building a second depot. 1.9%
• No thanks, Herr Gensher Don`t negotiate with the Arabians to attacks the Americans. 1.5%