Strategy
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Give it 35 hours
Gets good by 35h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 60h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 79% of owners
Steam reviews 61% positive of 23,189
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (68%); after 60h it's 1 in 5 (20%).
- Fully opens up by hour 60.
- The opening is criticised more than in 95% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 79% 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 23,191 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 71.2h for positive, 19.2h 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 (79.4% 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 (90)
story milestone ending side
- Light This Candle Launch an orbital unit 100%
- Mark II Upgrade a Unit 92%
- I'm On Another Boat Embark a unit 91%
- The Machineries of Joy Build any wonder 83%
- Game over, man! One Hit Kill 80%
- Walk Without Rhythm Killed Siege Worm 68%
- Enemy Within Kill an enemy spy 56%
- Patent Pending Steal a tech 45%
- Energize Develop a city to produce more than 100 energy per turn 36%
- It Belongs in a Museum Find an Artifact 33%
- A Fistful of Dollars Unlock All Tier 1 Virtue Synergy Bonuses 32%
- What Was Once Only Imagined Develop a city to produce more than 100 science per turn 30%
- Splashdown Found an aquatic city 28%
- Let's Make a Deal Create an Agreement 27%
- More Than Meets The Eye Unlock a Hybrid affinity level 26%
- A Planet the Very Brother of Your Own Win game on Terran Map 25%
- Godspeed Win a game on Mercury Difficulty 23%
- Homo Aliena Achieve Max Level in Harmony 22%
- Logic is the beginning of wisdom Fully explore the Knowledge virtue tree 21%
- Mighty Fine Shindig Develop a city to produce more than 100 culture per turn 21%
- Lingua Franca Produce 100 Diplomatic Capital per turn 20%
- It's Full of Stars Achieve Transcendence 20%
- Once Upon A Time In Space Unlock All Tier 3 Virtue Synergy Bonuses 20%
- Liberty Bell 7 Complete an Expedition on an aquatic crashed satellite 20%
- The Sound Of Inevitability Achieve Max Level in Supremacy 20%
- For A Few Dollars More Unlock All Tier 2 Virtue Synergy Bonuses 19%
- So Say We All Achieve Max Level in Purity 19%
- You Have Chosen Wisely Cash in an Artifact of each category 19%
- I've made a lot of special modifications myself Download a mod 18%
- That's No Moon Win a game on a Small Map 18%
- Live Long and Prosper Fully explore the Prosperity virtue tree 17%
- Beep… Beep…. Beep... Win a game on Sputnik Difficulty 17%
- Pale Blue Dot Win a game on a Standard Map 16%
- I'm in the middle of some calibrations Play with a Mod 15%
- That New Planet Smell Win game on Protean Map 15%
- The View is Tremendous Win a game on a Large Map 14%
- The Prince Attain full Fear and full Respect with another player 14%
- No bucks, No Buck Rogers Fully explore the Industry virtue tree 14%
- Shining Path Win a game as Daoming 14%
- Planned Obsolescence Achieve Emancipation 13%
- The Stuff of Legend Complete a Marvel quest 12%
- We Are Not Alone Achieve Contact Victory 12%
- Silent Service Kill 10 units with Invisible units 12%
- C'mon you apes, you wanna live forever? Fully explore the Might virtue tree 12%
- Resistance is Futile Achieve Domination Victory 12%
- Moksha Win a game as Kavitha 12%
- Poseidon's Children Win game on Atlantean Map 11%
- 42 Research All Techs 11%
- Phone Home Achieve Promised land 11%
- The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug 500 Aliens Killed 11%
- The Art of the Infinite Win a game as Élodie 10%
- Поехали! (Pojexali!) Win a game on Vostok Difficulty 9.7%
- Father of Nations Win a game as Barre 9.4%
- 'X' Never Marks the Spot Collect 50 Artifacts 9.3%
- Chief Extraterrestrial Officer Win a game as Fielding 9.1%
- Ahimsa Win a game without starting a war 8.9%
- Making Way for a Hyperspace Bypass Raze 100 Alien nests 8.3%
- The Big Payoff Win a game as Hutama 8.3%
- Best of Both Worlds Build a Hybrid Ultimate unique unit 8.3%
- Tiny Big Planet Win a game on a Tiny Map 8.2%
- Never Surrender Win a game as Bolivar 7.9%
- Gagarin's Legacy Win a game as Kozlov 7.3%
- Aim to Misbehave Win a game on a Duel Map 6.8%
- 8 Days or Bust Win a game on Gemini Difficulty 6.5%
- When Maui Came To This World Win game on Archipelago Map 5.2%
- The Frontier is Everywhere Win a game on a Primordial planet 5.2%
- Valley of the Time Tombs Build all wonders (Base Game) 5.0%
- Shai-Hulud Leash a Colossal Alien 4.9%
- Winter is Coming Win a game on a Frigid planet 4.8%
- Cylon Computer Virus Win a multiplayer game 4.5%
- Salam Win a game as Al Falah 4.0%
- The Voyageur Move an aquatic city 50 times 4.0%
- Cruel and Unusual Geography Win game on Equatorial Map 3.8%
- Thy Sea So Great Win a game as North Sea Alliance 3.8%
- Neptune's Glory Build all aquatic Wonders 3.7%
- Ramming Speed Kill a unit by moving an aquatic city onto it 3.7%
- There is no Try Get beaten to wonders 10 times 3.5%
- Steely Eyed Missile Man Achieve one of each other victory 3.5%
- Order of Lenin Win a game on Soyuz Difficulty 3.4%
- Just Like Voskhod 2 Win game on Taigan Map 3.3%
- Shadow and Light Win a game as Chungsu 3.0%
- The Eagle Has Landed Win a game on Apollo Difficulty 2.4%
- Willing is Not Enough Win a game as INTEGR 2.4%
- Grand Galactic Inquisitor Win at least one game with each leader (Base Game) 2.1%
- Fearful Symmetry Win game on Skirmish Map (Base Game) 2.0%
- Rules of Acquisition Purchase 1000 Tiles 2.0%
- Terror From the Deep Win without controlling any land cities 1.5%
- United Federation of Planets Win at least one game on each map size and type 1.4%
- Fortune and Glory Build all Artifact Wonders 1.1%
- The Halls of R'lyeh Complete all Marvel quests 1.1%
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