X3: Terran Conflict
Give it 20 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 35h it's almost 1 in 20 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 28% 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 2,861 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 70.8h for positive, 6.4h 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 (28.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (33)
story milestone ending side
- Crash Course Pass the Flight School. 100%
- Pirate Fever Force a pilot to eject a crate worth over 10,000 Credits. 46%
- Combat Pro Achieve fight rank Professional. 41%
- Captain of Industry Achieve trade rank Wholesaler. 41%
- A Proud Moment Build a factory. 36%
- Liberator Claim ten ships. 34%
- On the Beat Earn 100,000 Credits with a police license. 29%
- Reunion Reunite the Aldrin colony with Earth. 22%
- Maze Build a complex with five factories. 21%
- Happy Hippies Help the Goner to rebuild and relocate their Temple. 12%
- Exterminator Complete Operation Final Fury. 11%
- Defender of the Universe Destroy 1,000 Kha'ak and/or Xenon ships. 11%
- X Marks the Spot Complete the Treasure Hunt Campaign. 9.9%
- Major Miner Mine ten units of Nividium. 9.9%
- Filthy Rich Get one billion Credits in your account. 9.2%
- Home Sweet Home Complete the New Home Missions. 8.1%
- Solar Shock Wave Destroy a Solar Power Plant. 7.7%
- Turn Up the Heat Destroy 20 ships with the Plasma Burst Generator. 7.4%
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Achieve the highest reputation with the main races. 7.4%
- A Few Good Men Train five marines to five stars. 7.4%
- Lost Brothers Complete the Aldrin Missions. 7.0%
- Resourceful Reactivate the final set of Hub gates. 6.3%
- Fly Swatter Stun seven space flies at once. 6.3%
- Homebase Acquire your personal Headquarters. 6.0%
- Balance of Power Finish the Balance of Power mission. 6.0%
- Operation Blackbeard Board and take over ten capital ships. 5.6%
- Traveller Visit all sectors. Unfocused jumps don't count. 4.9%
- Reboot Board and take over a Xenon Q. 4.6%
- Survivor Finish three campaigns in Dead-is-Dead mode. 4.2%
- Never Say Die Finish six campaigns in Dead-is-Dead mode. 4.2%
- Die-Hard Finish nine campaigns in Dead-is-Dead mode. 4.2%
- X-Treme Fighter Achieve fight rank X-TREME. 4.2%
- X-Treme Trader Achieve trade rank X-TREME. 4.2%