ENDLESS Legend™
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (49%); after 35h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 77% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 64% 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 19,141 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 221 reviews: 52.9h for positive, 7.5h 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 (64% 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 (139)
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- Toe in the Water Play for 10 turns, across any number of playthroughs. 100%
- Boot Camp Finish the basics of tutorial. 53%
- Real Estate Mogul Build 100 improvements in your entire Empire in one game. 40%
- Urban Sprawl Have 3 city tiles at level 2 in one of your cities. 32%
- Press the Flesh Play a game in multiplayer with at least one another human. 29%
- Stimulated Have 5 active luxury boosters at the same time. 27%
- Pheidippides Explore 1 000 tiles before the 50th turn. 27%
- Cruise Control Win a game in Newbie or higher difficulty against AI. 26%
- Making Friends Assimilate 3 minor factions. 26%
- What's Mined is Mine Exploit each kind of strategic resource in one game. 25%
- Labs and Fabs Have one city which produces more than 1 000 Science. 25%
- Cash Cow Have one city which produces more than 1 000 Dust. 24%
- Heroic Patience Play for 1 000 turns, across any number of playthroughs. 23%
- Asleep at the Wheel Win a game in Easy or higher difficulty against AI. 22%
- All Roads Lead to Me Get 20 trade routes or more starting from, crossing or reaching your empire. 21%
- Massively Mass Production Have one city which produces more than 1 000 Industry. 19%
- Just Warming Up Win a game in Normal or higher difficulty against AI. 19%
- Harvester Have one city which produces more than 1 000 Food. 18%
- Endless Leveling Level up a hero to level 15. 18%
- Cities Builder Have two cities in less than 15 turns. 17%
- Corridors of Power Have one city which produces more than 500 Influence. 16%
- Mwa ha ha ha haaa! Win a Supremacy Victory. 15%
- Epilogue Finish the last chapter of a faction quest. 15%
- Teamworker Contribute to a completed Co-operative Quest. 15%
- A Byte of Barons Have 8 heroes in one game. 15%
- Maxed Out Activate all the 4th levels in the Empire Plan. 14%
- The Not So Broken Lords With the Broken Lords, have a district producing more than 10 Dust. 14%
- The Bigger They are... Kill a Guardian. 14%
- Cultured Pearl Collect 1 Pearl Cluster with a value of at least 20. 13%
- Just in Case Have 100 of each strategic resource. 13%
- I Am the Eternal End Win an Elimination Victory. 13%
- So Outta Here Win with the Vaulters. 13%
- It Came from the Depths Attack an army containing only land units with an army containing only submersible units. 12%
- Guinea Pig Use a booster of each luxury resource, across any number of playthroughs. 11%
- Me and Croesus Gain 1 000 000 of Dust, across any number of playthroughs. 11%
- Maybe It Does Buy Happiness Win an Economic Victory. 11%
- Share This! Win with the Wild Walkers. 11%
- Scourge of Auriga Kill 1 000 units, across any number of playthroughs. 11%
- Gaze Upon It and Tremble! Win a Wonder Victory. 11%
- Un-Broken Win with the Broken Lords. 10%
- Float Like a Butterfly With the Wild Walkers, win a battle against at least 4 enemies without taking any damage. 10%
- Endless Day ...in the ruins all across Auriga, and even throughout... 9.7%
- What's Yours is Mine Capture a city containing a Legendary Building. 9.5%
- Marvelous Have the 5 Legendary Buildings at the same time. 9.2%
- The End is Nigh Win with the Cultists of the Eternal End. 9.2%
- Numbers. They Don't Lie. Win a Score Victory. 9.2%
- Dice with the Universe Win a Science Victory. 9.2%
- Way Better Than Napoleon Conquer 5 cities during a single winter. 8.9%
- Squirreling Away Use a Food, a Science, and an Industry stockpile in one game. 8.6%
- Dungeons & Drakken As the Drakken, exploit at least 5 ruins at the same time. 8.3%
- Diplomeisters Win with the Drakken. 8.3%
- Helping Hand Complete 250 quests, across any number of playthroughs. 8.3%
- Strove, Sought, Found, Did Not Yield Win a game in Hard or higher difficulty against AI. 8.1%
- (Belch!) Win with the Necrophages. 8.1%
- Surprise! Ambush an enemy army from a fog-bank. 7.3%
- I <3 Minions With the Cultists, have 20 converted villages at the same time. 7.2%
- Like Peipus Start and win a battle on frozen waters. 7.2%
- Dustjacker Ambush an enemy army from a Dust Blizzard. 7.0%
- Bigger Is Better Win an Expansion Victory. 6.9%
- I Did It My Way Win with a Custom Faction. 6.9%
- No Pain, no Gain Win with the Ardent Mages. 6.4%
- Landscaping With the Ardent Mages, have 5 pillars at the same time. 6.2%
- Ka-ching! Win with the Roving Clans. 6.2%
- Cage Match Win a game in multiplayer with at least one another human. 6.2%
- A Total Eclipse Of The Art Possess an army with all Dust Eclipse map-based buffs active simultaneously. 6.1%
- Internal (and External) Revenue Service With the Roving Clans, get more than 1 000 Dust from the Market Place taxes. 6.1%
- Diplomanic Win a Diplomatic Victory. 5.9%
- Battlefield Buffet With the Necrophages, use 10 recycled stockpiles in one game. 5.9%
- Barely Broke a Sweat Win a game in Serious or higher difficulty against AI. 5.8%
- Berezina Lose one army due to the thaw. 5.6%
- Cheaters Come Out Ahead With the Forgotten, be the first to reach the 2nd Era. 5.5%
- Loremeister Win a Quest Victory. 5.5%
- Jeweller's Shop Unlock all Blessings of the Altar of Auriga in one game. 4.8%
- Collect'em All Have the 5 different Guardians at the same time. 4.7%
- Piece of (True) Cake Win a game in Impossible or higher difficulty against AI. 4.7%
- Sticky Fingers Get 500 Dust by pillage. 4.7%
- The Great Old One Lose an army to the Sea Monster. 4.5%
- Fast Start Be the faction with the highest score at turn 25 playing on hard or higher difficulty. 4.4%
- The Learner Is Now the Master Win a game in "Endless" difficulty against AI. 4.4%
- String of Pearls Collect 1 000 Pearls in one game. 4.1%
- Monster Wrangler Control all 3 Urkans at the same time. 4.1%
- Who, Me? Attack a friendly army with privateers. 3.9%
- Go back to R'lyeh Defeat the Sea Monster. 3.9%
- Endless Gamer Play for 10 000 turns, across any number of playthroughs. 3.9%
- Night Rider Search 12 Temples in a single Dust Eclipse. 3.8%
- BFFs Finish a game while never breaking an alliance you made at least 100 turns ago. 3.6%
- I Built it my Way Win a game with generation presets other than default. 3.4%
- Black Spot, Clean Hands As Morgawr, use a Black Spot to prompt the elimination of an empire by a third party. 3.3%
- Maritime Myths Complete 5 quests for the Fomorians in a single game. 3.3%
- Deep Mole Perform 5 infiltration actions without leaving the infiltrated city. 3.3%
- Maritime Monopoly Control every Fortress in the world. 3.1%
- Blooming Marvelous Create 50 Fungal Blooms in a single game. 3.1%
- Unforgettable Win a game with the Forgotten. 3.1%
- Resistance Is Useless Pacify 500 villages, across any number of playthroughs. 3.1%
- Madder than Max Kill a roving city. 3.0%
- IP Piracy With the Forgotten, steal 10 researches. 3.0%
- Fighting for Peace With the Drakken, win a game without having been in war. 2.7%
- Mare Nostrum As Morgawr, control an ocean which borders 4 or more land regions you control. 2.7%
- The Grim Wave Win a game with the Morgawr. 2.5%
- Aurified Win with the Allayi. 2.5%
- Fomorian-bane Capture 50 Fomorian-controlled Fortresses across any number of playthroughs. 2.5%
- Speed Walker Move an army 20 tiles in a single turn with the Wild Walkers. 2.5%
- United Empires Win a Shared Victory. 2.5%
- Full Deck Win a battle using an army containing each type of Fomorian warship. 2.3%
- Plunderiffic Pillage 30 buildings, across any number of playthroughs. 2.3%
- Shadow of the Colossi Have all 3 Urkans affect a single one of your cities at the same time. 2.3%
- Quick Out of the Blocks Be the faction with the highest score at turn 25 playing on Endless difficulty. 2.2%
- Mildew'd Win with the Mykara. 2.2%
- Here Comes the Cavalry With the Vaulters, teleport 10 units in a besieged city in one turn. 2.2%
- Golems Rule! Achieve victory with the Kapaku. 2.0%
- By Any Means Complete your control of an ocean by trading for a Fortress. 2.0%
- The Sun Never Sets As Morgawr, control one region on at least 4 different continents. 2.0%
- I Came I Slew I Scampered With a spy, return a governor to his owner's academy without being detected. 1.9%
- Know Thy Enemy Finish the last chapters of every faction quests, across any number of playthroughs. 1.7%
- Heedful, Deedful Complete all the Legendary Deeds, across any number of playthroughs. 1.7%
- Facility Completionist Control each of the unique facilities across any number of playthroughs. 1.7%
- Pearl Addiction Collect 10 000 Pearls, across any number of playthroughs. 1.7%
- Peace Talker Restore the peace with a least 3 empires within a single turn. 1.6%
- Homeland Serenity Capture 10 spies, across any number of playthroughs. 1.4%
- A World Of Fire And Ash Volcanoform 400 tiles over any number of playthroughs. 1.4%
- Geomancer's Delight Possess a unit with all Geomancy buffs active simultaneously. 1.2%
- Devotion Spend 1 000 prayers on Winter votes, across any number of playthroughs. 1.2%
- Acquisitive Traveler Extract 100 strategic or luxury resources in another empire, across any number of playthroughs. 1.2%
- Cold Cuts Spawn 30 Battle Born using Cadaver stockpiles in a single game. 1.2%
- Welcome to the Fold Control 20 Overgrown Cities at the same time. 1.2%
- Celebrate Diversity Fight with an army, reinforcements included, having both Light and Dark forms of each of the Allayi units (Seeker, Skyfin and Monk). 1.1%
- Catch and Release Take control of an Urkan owned by another faction and set it free (in the same turn). 1.1%
- Scorched Earth Policy Volcanoform an enemy city's entire exploited tiles. 1.1%
- Shapeshifter Have 100 force-shifted units, across any number of playthroughs. 1.1%
- Share The Pain Inflict 800 damage with a single unit in a single attack as the Ardent Mages. 1.1%
- Xerophobic As Morgawr, win the game without ever building or purchasing land units (except for Settler units). 1.1%
- Sporetastic Create 1000 Fungal Blooms across any number of playthroughs. 1.1%
- The Exterminator Kill 1000 Lice units across any number of playthroughs. 1.1%
- Pyromaniac Sacrifice 8000 total HP using Soul Burn over any number of playthroughs. 0.9%
- Machiavellian Win 8 battles with armies exclusively composed of minor faction units within a single turn. 0.9%
- Resistance is Futile Integrate 7 factions in a single game. 0.9%
- Beetlejuiced Kill an enemy hero with a Setseke. 0.9%
- Shake your Foundations Deal 1 000 000 damage with Tremors over any number of playthroughs. 0.9%
- Finest Vault Reserves Teleport 5 or more units to a sieging Vaulter hero. 0.9%