Strategy
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
Give it 100 hours
Gets good by 100h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 44% positive of 964
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (82%); after 100h it's 1 in 3 (33%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 99% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 82% 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 971 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 122.9h for positive, 10.1h 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 (82.5% 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 (14)
- Welcome Back! Welcome back to Sword of the Stars II. 100%
- Steel Pusher Build your first ship. 67%
- To Boldly Go Successfully survey your first planet. 66%
- And we will call it... "This Land" Colonize a world. 66%
- Shipyard Supervisor Design a ship, save the design. 58%
- Station! Build your first station. 58%
- Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold Terraform a planet to a hazard rating of zero. 54%
- Sword of the Stars Build classic "Sword of the Stars" Human Dreadnought. 16%
- We got nuthin' Reduce a planet to zero resources. 11%
- The Z-word Is Rubbish Research the xombie plague. 2.4%
- Dishonourable Imitation Build "Leviathan" human Leviathan 2.3%
- The Inconvienient Condition of Man Lose your first Leviathan. 2.3%
- Dr. Sleepless Research all possible techs in a single game. 1.9%
- We've Got Rock, Neil Successfully repelled with no damage taken by the planet. 1.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.