Battle Brothers
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (50%); after 35h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 78% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 85% 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 29,114 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 96.2h for positive, 26.2h 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 (85.4% 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 (101)
story milestone ending side
- Bloody Toll Lose your first mercenary in battle 100%
- Blood Money Complete a contract for a settlement 96%
- Scars For Life Have a brother receive a permanent injury 96%
- Making Friends Get to friendly relations with a settlement 89%
- Trial By Fire Defeat Hoggart at any difficulty level 81%
- Ulfhednar Kill a Direwolf in melee 80%
- Patched Up Have a temporary injury treated at the temple 79%
- Time To Rebuild Lose half or more of your company in one battle 77%
- Broken Promises Fail a contract 76%
- A Full Company Have a company roster of 12 brothers 74%
- To Fight Another Day Flee from combat 72%
- Lessons Learned Lose a game 67%
- Back In Business Have a total of 5,000 crowns 66%
- Making A Name Reach 1,000 renown 66%
- Man In Black Kill a Necromancer 65%
- Who Let The Dogs Out? Kill an enemy with a wardog 65%
- Welcome Back Have a brother come back as undead 59%
- Taste Your Own Medicine Kill a Bandit Marksman with a ranged weapon 58%
- Field Hospital Have 5 or more brothers with a temporary injury at the same time 57%
- Meddling With Nobles Complete a contract for a noble house 57%
- Hip Shooter Kill 2 enemies in one turn with a ranged weapon 57%
- Early Retirement Retire and have your company break apart 55%
- Trader Sell 10 trading good stacks 53%
- Overcoming Fear Kill a Geist 53%
- Outnumbered, Never Outclassed Kill 24 or more enemies in one battle 52%
- Never Trust A Mercenary Betray your employer 51%
- Bling Bling Acquire a named item 49%
- I Made This! Craft an item 48%
- Swingin' Kill 3 enemies with one AoE attack 45%
- Sleep Tight Kill an Alp 43%
- Restless Dead Kill a Fallen Hero 42%
- Back To The Grave Kill a Necrosavant 42%
- Campfire Company Hire your first non-combat follower 41%
- Bag a Hag Kill a Hexe 38%
- Swordmaster Get a brother to 90 melee skill 38%
- Old And Wise Get a brother to level 11 37%
- Deserter Have a brother desert you 36%
- Survivor Reach day 10 on veteran difficulty or higher 35%
- Stone Mason Defeat an Ifrit 34%
- Not So Noble Defeat a Noble House's unit 33%
- First Aid Bandage a wound in combat 33%
- Walking Statue Kill an Ancient Honor Guard 29%
- Deadeye Get a brother to 90 ranged skill 29%
- Hard To Kill Have a brother with 3 permanent injuries 28%
- Scrambled Eggs Destroy Webknecht Eggs 28%
- Give Me That! Defeat an enemy champion 27%
- Master Trader Sell 50 trading good stacks 26%
- Tricked Out Acquire 5 named items 26%
- Nothing Personal Kill one of your own men while mind-controlled by a Hexe 26%
- King Of The Hill Defeat another mercenary company 26%
- Man Of Renown Reach 3,000 renown 26%
- Chopping Wood Kill a Schrat 25%
- King Of The North Defeat a Barbarian King 25%
- A Knight's Tale Kill a Knight 25%
- Moneymaker Have a total of 50,000 crowns 24%
- Power In Numbers Have a company roster of 20 brothers 23%
- Kingmaker End the noble feud at any difficulty level 22%
- Beastmode Kill an Orc Warlord in melee 22%
- Greenskin Slayer Defeat the Greenskin Invasion at any difficulty level 21%
- A Colorful Band Dye a shield in company colors 21%
- Wildgrowth Kill a Goblin Shaman 20%
- There Can Be Only One Kill a Swordmaster in melee 20%
- Too Stubborn To Die Have the Lone Wolf become level 11 20%
- Bane Of The Undead Defeat the Undead Scourge at any difficulty level 20%
- Atheist Kill an Ancient Priest 19%
- Give Me Back My Legions! Lose a game to barbarians 18%
- Leaving A Mark Retire and have your company persist 18%
- A Bitter End Retire and have your company go down fighting 17%
- Assassin Kill an enemy with the Deathblow skill of the Qatal Dagger 17%
- Campaigner Reach day 100 on veteran difficulty or higher 17%
- Gladiator Win 10 arena matches in a single campaign 17%
- Dance Off Defeat a Blade Dancer 16%
- Friend Or Foe Have an Armored Unhold turn wild 15%
- Barrage Hit 4 or more enemies with a single shot of the Handgonne 14%
- Full House Use all five of your slots for non-combat followers 14%
- Cultural Misunderstanding Win the holy war for either side 13%
- Outgunned Kill a Goblin Overseer with a ranged weapon 13%
- Power Of Music Knock out an enemy with a lute 13%
- Making Allies Get to allied relations with a noble house 12%
- Famed Explorer Find 10 legendary locations 11%
- Dragon's Hoard Have a total of 250,000 crowns 11%
- Under New Management Conquer a holy site 11%
- Burn Them All! Kill an enemy with a Fire Pot 9.6%
- Never Give Up Lose 10 campaigns on Ironman mode 9.3%
- Bullseye Kill a Master Archer with a ranged weapon 8.1%
- Putting Down A God Defeat the Ijirok 7.8%
- Memory Loss Use a Potion of Oblivion 6.6%
- Man Of Iron Defeat a late game crisis on Ironman mode 6.4%
- Reproach Of The Old Gods Reassemble the legendary sword 5.9%
- Tough Farewell Lose a level 11 or higher brother on Ironman mode 5.9%
- Friend of the South Reach allied relations with a southern city state 5.0%
- Rest In Pieces Destroy the Black Monolith and claim its treasures 4.8%
- Hey! This is Library! Defeat the Lorekeeper 4.6%
- Stuff Of Legends Reach 8,000 renown 4.4%
- Anniversary Reach day 365 on veteran difficulty or higher 4.1%
- How To Berserk Kill an Orc Berserker in melee while high on mushrooms 4.1%
- Beast of Beasts Kill a Kraken 4.0%
- Leaving A Legacy Retire from your legendary company 3.6%
- Human Wave Have a full roster of 25 men when playing as peasant militia 3.4%
- Voice of Davkul Have a Prophet while playing as a cult of Davkul 2.5%
- Savior Defeat all four late game crises on Ironman mode 2.2%