ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategy
UBOAT
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 34% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 27,452
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 20h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 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 27,618 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 36.3h for positive, 32.6h 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 (33.6% 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 (51)
story milestone ending side
- Iron Cross 2nd Class Earn the Iron Cross 2nd Class with any officer. 100%
- Iron Cross 1st Class Earn the Iron Cross 1st Class with any officer. 93%
- German Cross in Gold Earn the German Cross in Gold with any officer. 70%
- Espionage Transport a spy to enemy territory. 69%
- 15000 GRT Sink at least 15000 GRT during a single patrol. 64%
- Knight's Cross Earn the Knight's Cross with any officer. 58%
- Enigma Recovered Complete the mission of retrieving the Enigma from a sunken U-boat. 57%
- Minelayer Complete any campaign objective with mine-laying. 56%
- Ace of Scapa Flow Complete the mission of infiltrating Scapa Flow. 54%
- Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves Earn the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves with any officer. 49%
- Survivor Survive a battle during which enemy ships dropped over 100 depth charges on your U-boat. 39%
- Torps Ain't Cheap Sink an enemy warship using the deck gun or AA gun. 37%
- 40000 GRT Sink at least 40000 GRT during a single patrol. 35%
- Friends In High Places Complete the mission of rescuing a Kriegsmarine officer from an interned ship. 35%
- Noisy Hunter Cause a tanker to explode while enemy warships are nearby. 33%
- Tonnage War Complete all stages of the campaign objective Tonnage War. 32%
- Needle In a Haystack Sink a cargo ship requested for sinking by command, which is sailing in a convoy of at least 15 ships, without sinking any other ship in the convoy beforehand. 30%
- Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Crossed Swords Earn the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Crossed Swords with any officer. 25%
- Gibraltar Crossed Complete the mission of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. 25%
- It's a Waste of Ammo Sink an enemy ship by ramming it. 22%
- Fresh Air... Surface for fresh air after your U-boat has sunk to a depth of at least 100 meters with a displacement of -10% or less. 21%
- Multitasking Hit three different ships with torpedoes with a maximum of 120 seconds between the first and last hit. 21%
- Reputation is Everything Have 10 reputation points. 19%
- Have Some Potatoes Give bags of potatoes to the shipwrecked on a lifeboat. 18%
- The Happy Time Complete all stages of the campaign objective The Happy Time. 18%
- Attack on Aruba Complete the mission of attacking Aruba. 13%
- Norwegian Campaign Complete all stages of the Norwegian campaign. 12%
- 86700 GRT Sink at least 86700 GRT during a single patrol, breaking the historical record set by U-107. 12%
- Japanese Friends Meet a Japanese B1-type submarine. 11%
- Silent Meteorologist Complete the mission of establishing a weather station in Northern Labrador. 11%
- Battle of the Mediterranean Complete all stages of the campaign objective Battle of the Mediterranean 11%
- War Chest Have a budget of over 1,000,000. 11%
- Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Crossed Swords and Diamonds Earn the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Crossed Swords, and Diamonds with any officer. 11%
- Researcher Research all technologies available in the game during a campaign started on September 1, 1939. 10%
- The Black Pit Complete all stages of the campaign objective The Black Pit. 9.2%
- Destroyed Destroyers Sink 30 destroyers. 8.9%
- Safe and Sound Build all U-boat bunkers in a campaign started before March 1941. 8.3%
- U-flak Shoot down 20 airplanes. 8.3%
- Carrier Hunter Sink a total of 3 aircraft carriers travelling in convoys. 7.4%
- Arctic Convoys Complete all stages of the campaign objective Arctic Convoys. 6.0%
- Gold Recovered Complete the mission of retrieving gold from a sunken merchant ship. 5.1%
- Convoy? What Convoy? Single-handedly sink an entire convoy consisting of at least 10 ships. 4.8%
- Battleship Hunter Sink an enemy battleship moving with a convoy or a warship task force. 3.6%
- The Last Stand Complete all stages of the campaign objective The Last Stand. 3.6%
- Operation Drumbeat Complete all stages of the campaign objective Operation Drumbeat. 3.3%
- War and Peace Complete any campaign. 3.0%
- The Long Haul Complete any campaign starting on September 1, 1939. 2.1%
- Argentinian Escape After the war, sink your ship off the coast of Argentina. 1.8%
- Southern Routes Complete all stages of the campaign objective Southern Routes. 1.8%
- Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds Earn the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Crossed Swords, and Diamonds with any officer. 0.9%
- Ace of the Depths Complete any campaign with realism settings over 90%. 0.6%
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