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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 69% of players who started
Started playing 14% of owners
Steam reviews 83% positive of 8,108
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (39%); after 35h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- At least 69% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “West Of Eden” (Go to Los Angeles): only 89% of starters get there.
- Only 14% 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 8,123 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 20.8h for positive, 10.7h 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 (14.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- West Of Eden Go to Los Angeles Most players quit here 89% −11
- Red Wire, Blue Wire Disarm the nuke ≥69% −20
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (46)
story milestone ending side
- Know Your Roots Find a Wasteland 1 disk 100%
- Locked And Loaded Apply 20 weapon mods 97%
- What Does This Button Do? Set off the nuke in Ranger Citadel before going to LA 92%
- West Of Eden Go to Los Angeles 89%
- Better Left Buried Find the hidden cache of extraterrestrial cartridges 83%
- Wasteland Justice Witness Angela kill Samuel Haas 83%
- Skin 'O Yer Teeth Survive a combat encounter with only 1 party member standing 80%
- Under Old Management Restore Rodia's mayor to office 77%
- Pop Idol Find The Fin's poster 76%
- Peace On The Rails Make peace between the Atchisons and Topekans 76%
- Red Wire, Blue Wire Disarm the nuke 69%
- A Gentle Heart Save Binh from Tinker 63%
- How Rude Help Mr. Manners eliminate Tori Robbinson's plot 58%
- Ezekiel 18:20 Intervene in a God's Militia execution 57%
- Oops Accidentally kill a party member with friendly fire 51%
- Back Where It All Began Return to Arizona 50%
- Goat Simulator Get 3 goats following the party at once 44%
- Civilized Convince the Mannerites to stop eating people 40%
- Pushed The Button You foolishly pushed the button in the Hollywood Sewers 38%
- Fateful Reunion Meet Ralphy's dad with Ralphy in tow 37%
- Embrace The Glow Send the nuke to the Mad Monks 33%
- Tasty! Give the Night Terror 20 pieces of candy 32%
- A Night To Remember Get an STD 31%
- Blast From The Past Learn Combat Shooting 26%
- Sinners And Saints Make peace between Hollywood and the Bastion 26%
- Sweet, Sweet Squeezins Scotchmo steals 5 bottles of Snake Squeezins from you 26%
- Fight Fire With Fire Send the nuke to the DBM 25%
- Religious Persecution Kill all of the God's Militia leadership 24%
- Sinister Legacy Use the code from Finster's head to get into Darwin's underground complex 22%
- Self Actualized Put the Robbinsons in power in Angel Oracle 17%
- Son Of A Motherless Goat Outfit 3 rangers in the amigos hat, jacket, and pants 17%
- A General and a Gentleman Allow Vargas to detonate the nuke 15%
- Call Of The Wild Use Animal Whisperer to charm 20 animals 14%
- Elbow Grease Repair 10 locks or safes using Mechanical Repair 11%
- Cat Burglar Steal the Golden Spike from Kekkahbah's fortress without being detected 8.3%
- Scavenger Find all of the world map caches 8.3%
- Divine Retribution Help Retribution Jones take over Hollywood 7.6%
- Moo, I Say Tip 5 cows 7.6%
- They Walk Among Us Have a party member turn into a pod person 6.9%
- Hell Bent For Leather Help Chris Van Graas Jr. become mayor of Rodia 5.6%
- Persona Non Grata Get Ranger Team Delta sent after you 5.6%
- Relics Of A Bygone Age Find all hidden shrines in the game 5.6%
- I Am Legend Complete Matthias' quest to kill in LA 4.2%
- Not Monkeying Around Complete the game with a Ranger dressed in a gorilla costume 4.2%
- Too Much Time On Yer Hands Dig up all the holes at Redondo Beach 4.2%
- Wasteland Historian Read every lore entry in the game 3.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.