IndieRPGStrategy
Chroma Squad
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 19% of players who started
Started playing 76% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 4,617
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 10h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 19% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Going indie” (Complete the Prologue) and “A Good Start” (Complete Season 1): from 100% to 57% of starters.
- 76% 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 4,627 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 14.6h 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 (75.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Going indie Complete the Prologue 100%
- A Good Start Complete Season 1 Most players quit here 57% −43
- Are We Famous Now? Complete Season 2 41% −16
- That Escalated Quickly Complete Season 3 30% −11
- Heroes To Save The Earth Complete Season 4 24% −6
- Time to End This! Complete Season 5 19% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Going indie Complete the Prologue 100%
- Chroma Fusion Execute a Finishing Move with basic attacks 97%
- Professional Get maximum audience on a single episode. 92%
- Like They Do On TV Defeat a Boss with a Finishing Move 77%
- I Play The Long Game Sign a Marketing Agency for 3 weeks 60%
- A Good Start Complete Season 1 57%
- This is Better Craft an Uncommon item 54%
- Can We Afford This? Upgrade your Studio to level 2 54%
- Hype Machine Complete a Season with Excellent performance 54%
- With Style Defeat a Kaiju with a Mecha Finishing Move 53%
- Cardboard Mechanic Craft a Mecha Upgrade 51%
- Looks Like A Real Costume Craft a Super item 41%
- Are We Famous Now? Complete Season 2 41%
- Fan Favorite Activate all available Marketing Actions 40%
- Denied Knockdown a Kaiju on the first turn 38%
- Do They Handle Awards For These? Craft a Mega item 35%
- By the Book Complete all Director Instructions before Season 2 30%
- That Escalated Quickly Complete Season 3 30%
- Going Fancy Upgrade your Studio to level 3 25%
- Best Costumes in the Galaxy Craft an Alien item 25%
- Heroes To Save The Earth Complete Season 4 24%
- We Can Do This! Defeat a Kaiju with the help of your fans 22%
- Chroma Beam Execute a Finishing Move with Weapon attacks 21%
- Cardboard Overlord Craft a Legendary item 20%
- Time to End This! Complete Season 5 19%
- Fully Decked Out Buy all Upgrades 18%
- Stop running! Defeat Lord Gaga for the third time 17%
- Combo Fever Reach Combo 9 with your Mecha 17%
- Tourist Hero Complete the game on Casual difficulty 16%
- Moonstone and Citrine Your squad is now bigger! 14%
- Hero Complete the game on Interesting difficulty 12%
- So Meta You didn't think we would let him run the show, would you? 11%
- Almighty Changing Potent Squad Complete the game with a new friend who finds redemption. 9.9%
- With All My Heart Get help from outer space 7.4%
- Don't Ever Forget Honor the Ahbo family 6.9%
- I thought we were friends... Attack the TV monster with Beaver. 5.8%
- A Hero from Outer Space Complete the game with the peacekeepers of the Universe 5.8%
- A Wild Bike and a Dive Kick Complete the game with time travel and space trains 5.3%
- Save my telly! Do not attack the TV monster with Beaver. 4.0%
- Get to the Shopper Spend $90.001 on the Shop 3.8%
- Brave Hero Complete the game on Challenging difficulty 3.7%
- Episodes Hero Complete 42 or more episodes in campaign mode. 2.4%
- Ultimate Hero See all endings in the game. 2.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.