StarDrive 2

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 2,108 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 71.7h for positive, 33.6h 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 (76.8% 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 (34)

• These are the Voyages... Start a game with an empire named "United Federation" 100%
• I've made a huge mistake Have a fleet run out of fuel in deep space 95%
• What could possibly go wrong? Travel through a wormhole for the first time 80%
• On the Rocks Colonize an asteroid belt 69%
• Point Defender Have a single ship intercept and destroy at least 100 missiles in a single battle 52%
• Galactic Civilization Control 8 or more colonies 51%
• Paradise Found Colonize a Gaia planet 51%
• Lady Harrington and No Mercy! Have a salvo of at least 100 missiles in flight at a single time in a battle launched from the strategy map 48%
• Multiculturalism Conduct a foreign exchange 48%
• Resistance is Futile Capture a planet while possessing the powers of assimilation 48%
• Belter Pride Have four or more citizens living on a single asteroid belt 44%
• Not much to look at... BUT IT RAINS DIAMONDS. Colonize a world with the Diamond Rain special 41%
• Manifest Destiny Use transports to move 10+ citizens (across any number of games) from one colony to another 41%
• Uplift! Successfully lift another species to sentience 39%
• No Quarter Eliminate a planetary population through orbital bombardment 30%
• He who controls the Spice... Control enough sources of Spice to gain the exploitation bonus 29%
• Moley Moley Moley Use espionage to plant a mole in another empire 28%
• Launch All Vipers! Have at least 50 fighters deployed at the same time in a battle launched from the strategy map 25%
• Tougher than we look! Win a ground combat as a race with the Timid trait 19%
• For Science! Unleash the plague bomb on a planet 17%
• OR ELSE Successfully threaten a race into giving you something they wouldn't have otherwise given you 13%
• How to Serve Man Conquer Earth with a ground invasion 12%
• Soylent Green Sacrifice one of your own citizens 7.6%
• Kah Lee Mah! Sacrifice a citizen from another race 7.3%
• iCitizen Own a colony that has reached its population limit while being populated entirely by androids 5.6%
• Make it So Start a game with a leader name containing "Picard" 1.8%
• MOOOOOOOO Start a game with an empire named after one of the races found in the Master of Orion games 1.4%
• May the force not sue you Start a game with a leader name containing "Skywalker" 1.4%
• Wrong Game Dude! Start a game with a race named after one of the races found in the Galactic Civilizations games 1.4%
• I will kill you with a flashlight Start a game with a leader name containing "Adama" 1.3%
• I see what you did bear Start a game as the Kulrathi, with an empire name containing "Kilrathi" or "Bulrathi" 1.2%
• Endless Competition Start a game ith an empire named after one of the races found in Endless Space 1.2%
• Honorable Mention Start a new game with a leader named Honor Harrington 1.2%
• Handicapable Win a game with a score modifier of at least 200% 0.9%