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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending 22% of players who started
Started playing 34% of owners
Steam reviews 78% positive of 116,137
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 20h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
- 22% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Beat the Boss” (Defeated your first boss) and “The End” (Finished the story): from 78% to 22% of starters.
- Only 34% 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 116,712 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 32.6h for positive, 21h 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 (34% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- A Good Start Completed the first mission "Amaru's rescue". 100%
- Beat the Boss Defeated your first boss. 78% −22
- The End Finished the story. Most players quit here 22% −56
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (57)
story milestone ending side
- A Good Start Completed the first mission "Amaru's rescue". 100%
- Rebel Sympathizer Unlocked a Rebel skill. 93%
- Beat the Boss Defeated your first boss. 78%
- Death in the Dark Made a close-combat kill at night. 73%
- Legend Hunter Discovered one legend. 68%
- Eye in the Sky Marked 100 enemies with a drone. 62%
- With a Pistol! Took out a sniper with a pistol. 56%
- Road Warrior Drove a vehicle for 100 km. 53%
- Teamwork! Completed 3 missions with another player. 47%
- Real Rebel Unlocked all the Rebel skills. 44%
- Spice of Life Played each type of side mission. 42%
- Highway Bandit Tagged 10 convoys. 39%
- Long Shot Hit a target more than 400m away. 37%
- Fearless Skydived 10 times. 36%
- Deadly Curious Interrogated 20 sources. 32%
- The Champion Maxed out your XP and levels. 28%
- Death from Above Killed an enemy with a drone. 26%
- Broken Locks Completed the Security operation. 24%
- Bad Reputation Completed the Influence operation. 23%
- Shut Down Completed the Production operation. 22%
- The End Finished the story. 22%
- Smuggler's Blues Completed the Smuggling operation. 21%
- Black-out Boomer Destroyed a generator with a C4 blast. 19%
- Finished the Job Killed an enemy in close combat who was hurt by another player. 17%
- Eagle-Eyed Marked 100 enemies with the binoculars. 17%
- Mission Master Completed all Story missions. 14%
- Ultimate Skill Bought all the upgrades of a Skill branch. 14%
- Serious Collector Found 50% of the documents in the game. 14%
- Light Machine-Gun Fanatic Collected all light machine-gun models. 12%
- Shotguns Fanatic Collected all shotguns models. 11%
- Handgun Fanatic Collected all handguns models. 10%
- Heavy Medals Collected all the bonus medals. 9.7%
- Sniper Rifle Fanatic Collected all sniper rifle models. 9.7%
- Submachine-Gun Fanatic Collected all submachine-gun models. 8.8%
- Assault Rifle Fanatic Collected all assault rifle models. 8.8%
- No Better Rebel Maxed out each Rebel skill. 8.2%
- Top Drone Bought all drone-related upgrades. 7.1%
- Only the Best Bought all upgrades. 5.6%
- Pull! Shot an enemy chopper out of the air with a mortar. 5.3%
- Kill list Fallen Ghosts: Kill one of each Extranjeros squad archetypes 4.7%
- The Whole Story Found all documents. 4.4%
- Legendary Hunter Discovered all legends. 3.5%
- A hero once, a hero twice Fallen Ghosts: complete the operation 2.6%
- Cluster Bomber Killed 7 enemies with a single C4 blast. 1.8%
- Gang Leader Operation Narco Road: Kill One boss of the cartel 1.8%
- Rebel leader Fallen Ghosts: Complete a Final Rebel Op 1.5%
- A Better Mousetrap Killed 7 enemies with a single mine. 1.2%
- El Visible Operation Narco Road: Kill the final target 1.2%
- Brake a leg Operation Narco Road: Complete a trial without using the brakes 0.9%
- Thorough supporter Fallen Ghosts: Complete every Rebel Op and Mission 0.9%
- Mal Rodilla-Ternera Operation Narco Road: Complete an Electro™ challenge while freefalling 0.6%
- Tactical genius Fallen Ghosts: Blind yourself using the Flash Drone 0.6%
- Nondescript jungle hero Fallen Ghosts: Kill 10 Covert Ops Extranjeros using your knife 0.6%
- Artisanal SAM Fallen Ghosts: Destroy an enemy helicopter using an explosive bolt. 0.6%
- More Followers than Escobar Operation Narco Road: Fill the Followers Gauge of all regions to 100% 0.3%
- Scenic Route Narco Road: Go from Eddie's party villa to Arturo's bar in 8 minutes or less in a ground vehicle 0.3%
- Cristina Operation Narco Road: Kill 50 enemies with any gang's vehicle 0.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-22.