AdventureIndieRPGStrategy
Warside
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 48% of owners
Steam reviews 70% positive of 661
What the data shows
- 54% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 5+ hours (54%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 48% 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 669 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 9.1h for positive, 6.7h 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 (47.6% 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 (22)
- Swimming Lessons Push Scourge's Buggy into the water during "A Surprise Attack". 100%
- Through and Through Destroy 2 units with a single Rhino charge. 71%
- Didn't See That Coming Be ambushed by an enemy unit during a fog-of-war mission. 53%
- Unforeseen Consequences Destroy a friendly unit with a Rhino charge. 37%
- Proving Grounds Win a Skirmish mission. 35%
- The New World Reach "The New World" mission. 29%
- Curated Chaos Play a Skirmish mission created by a community member. 24%
- Checkmate Complete the campaign (any difficulty). 23%
- With Great Power Collectively use Battle Powers 100 times across all sessions. 17%
- Absolute Force Collectively destroy 1000 enemy units across all sessions. 15%
- What's an Airport Again? Collectively capture 25 Airports across all sessions. 12%
- Not a Scratch Complete the "Special Forces" campaign mission without losing a unit. 11%
- Fragile Package Reach Kraken's Wake with a damaged Cargo Truck. 11%
- Tanks a Lot Collectively build 250 Tanks across all sessions. 10%
- Death From Above Collectively destroy 50 enemy units using Bombers across all sessions. 9.9%
- Fast Forward Defeat Decker's forces during "Taking a Stand" before allied reinforcements arrive. 9.7%
- Sunk Cost Collectively destroy 75 enemy naval units across all sessions. 8.4%
- Unstoppable Win 10 Skirmish missions. 7.6%
- Uninvited Eliminate all of Decker's units during "The Last Stand" before capturing the Lab. 5.0%
- Live Fire Win a multiplayer game. 4.2%
- Drop It Like It's Hot Attack with a Boomtruck directly from a Transport Helicopter. 2.5%
- Pacifist Capture the Intelligence Outpost during the "Fog of War" mission without destroying any enemy units. 2.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.