Crisis in the Kremlin

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,474 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 8.5h for positive, 3.3h 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 (8.6% 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 (42)

• Two chairs Maximum loyalty of right and left wings both 100%
• Democracy Yeltsin shot, killed 99%
• Boom (level 1) DLC: Solve a "small problem" in the Ukrainian SSR. 93%
• Boom (level 2) DLC: Solve an "average problem" in the Ukrainian SSR. 85%
• Divide by zero Defeat NATO 84%
• Salvation of the drowning DLC: Join the GKCHP and win 83%
• As Marx bequeathed Take the first step to communism 81%
• The wall is our goal! Today! Trump is a President and Mexico is pro-soviet 80%
• Loneliness DLC: Win as reformer 80%
• Historicism DLC: Do as it should be done 80%
• Strong and United DLC: The economic growth: 100/100 79%
• Better for us DLC: Avoid NPP problems 78%
• Zemshar Get the final ending 76%
• Checkmate DLC: Displace Gorbachev 76%
• Leader DLC: Win with all four activated difficulties 74%
• Sozialistische Weltrepublik Have maximum amount republics in USSR 74%
• We will bury you! Get the nuclear ending 73%
• What is the year now? Leadership; Generalisimus; The erection of ideology in the rank of religion; The whole branch of the KGB was investigated; Lies about the outside world; DEFCON 1; Persecution of dissidents; 73%
• H for History Destroy the USSR in 1991 (Parade of Sovereignty) 72%
• Boom (level 3) DLC: Solve a "large problem" in the Ukrainian SSR. 72%
• The right one Gorby Get the ending "Perestroika" 71%
• Et tu, Brute? Sell technologies and weapons to China; China is pro-soviet; Get an invasion of the Far East; 71%
• Sworn friends Put Trotsky's ashes into the Mausoleum 70%
• Evil twin Playing as Sakharov - build a sharashka consisting of scientists 70%
• Developed socialism Win as Brezhnev with leading conservatives fraction 70%
• Abu Dhar al-Ghifari Islam is the pillar of society 69%
• October? What is it? Orthodoxy is a state religion, idolization of personality, vozhdivizm, the ruler adopts laws, appointment for life, autonomy, rejection of trade unions 69%
• Genius Make the whole world pro-soviet, and then destroy the USSR 69%
• Welcome... Again. Playing as GKCHP - return all countries into WPO. 69%
• Pyrrhic victory Win in 1996 with a minimum number of republics in the USSR 67%
• The market decided Reform the country in the western type and get NATO invasion (UN Peacekeeping Mission) 67%
• Fight fire with fire Yakovlev is the second secretary; The liberal faction is in the lead; Western democracy; Market economy; Destroy NATO with this; 67%
• Perestroika - the continuation of the October DLC: Achieve a successful ending "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" 19%
• Democracy triumphed! DLC: Do it the way it should be 16%
• Not a step back! DLC: Preserve the planned economy and win the presidential elections in the USSR (this is possible only through the victorious Emergency Committee) 13%
• History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood DLC: Break the signing of the union agreement 12%
• Moremover DLC: Twice defeat Yeltsin in the elections as Vorotnikov 12%
• That's What We Wanted You To Think DLC: Yeltsin supported the GKChP in exchange for a place in the GKChP, in the USSR the planned economy was preserved. 8.1%
• God Save the Tsar! DLC: He lead the Union of Sovereign States 8.1%
• Democracy has worked against us DLC: An interesting candidate for the post of President of the RF 8.1%
• Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow DLC: Achieve a successful ending "Union of Sovereign States" 7.0%
• The Empire Strikes Back DLC: Supreme Council defeats President 7.0%