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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Give it 1 hour
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 2h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 16% of players who started
Started playing 55% of owners
Steam reviews 87% positive of 4,695
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 3h it's 1 in 12 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 2.
- 16% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Baghdad Saviour” (Complete Baghdad chapter of Story Mode): only 35% of starters get there.
- Only 55% 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 4,678 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 7h for positive, 2.4h 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 (55.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Baghdad Saviour Complete Baghdad chapter of Story Mode Most players quit here 35% −65
- Tokyo Saviour Complete Tokyo chapter of Story Mode 18% −17
- Earth Saviour Complete Story Mode 16% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (42)
story milestone ending side
- Repairman Repair 5 units 100%
- Gold Standard Earn a gold medal 91%
- First Blood Destroy 10 towers 73%
- Little Collector Collect 20 abilities 71%
- This Stuff Is Good Collect 14 Carusaurum caches 60%
- Eureka Protect deployed Decoy with Smoke Screen 43%
- Baghdad Saviour Complete Baghdad chapter of Story Mode 35%
- Blinded Enemy Use one Smoke Screen ability to protect 6 units 26%
- The Suit Works Fine Use every ability 10 times each 25%
- Multitasker Use 4 different abilities simultaneously 23%
- Pimp Your Squad Fully upgrade a unit 22%
- Tokyo Saviour Complete Tokyo chapter of Story Mode 18%
- Towerbane Destroy every tower type 10 times each 18%
- Fists of Stone Earn 5 gold Ruthlessness medals 18%
- Earth Saviour Complete Story Mode 16%
- Provident Earn 10 gold Efficiency medals 14%
- Charge Master Complete mission 5 having 20 ability charges in Advanced difficulty mode 13%
- Mayhem Unleashed Complete Baghdad Mayhem 13%
- Army Nurse Use one Repair ability to fix 400 damage 12%
- Standing Tall Complete mission 9 without Hero getting knocked down in Advanced difficulty mode 11%
- Death From Above Use one Airstrike ability to kill 4 towers 11%
- Charge Champ Complete mission 1 having 7 Repair ability charges in Advanced difficulty mode 11%
- Unscathed Complete mission 8 with transporter not being hit in Advanced difficulty mode 11%
- Tower Buster Complete mission 2 with every tower killed in Advanced difficulty mode 10%
- A Bridge Too Far Complete Tokyo Raid 9.4%
- Blink Of An Eye Complete mission 6 while beating timed part in less than 190 seconds in Advanced difficulty mode 9.4%
- Millionaire Earn 50.000 $ 9.4%
- On Fire Complete mission 3 while moving your squad in front each Scorcher in Advanced difficulty mode 9.2%
- What You See Complete mission 4 without using Decoy ability in Advanced difficulty mode 9.2%
- Survivalist Complete a mission without using Repair ability 9.2%
- Master Technician Fully upgrade every unit type 2 times each 9.0%
- As it Comes Complete mission 7 without a single unit upgrade in Advanced difficulty mode 9.0%
- And Stay Down! Complete mission 11 without letting Energizer towers respawn other towers in Advanced difficulty mode 8.8%
- Glutton For Punnishment Complete the last Boss stage while allowing at most 6 respawn waves in Advanced difficulty mode 8.8%
- Foot Soldier Complete mission 10 without using Air Strike ability in Advanced difficulty mode 8.7%
- Diversity Is Fun Complete a mission with squad composed of 6 different units 8.5%
- Lightning Strike Earn 10 gold Directness medals 8.3%
- Master Strategist Complete mission 12 while killing at most 44 towers in Advanced difficulty mode 8.3%
- Down But Not Out Complete mission 13 while letting at least 7 artillery strikes hit your squad in Advanced difficulty mode 8.3%
- Avenger Destroy 5000 towers 8.3%
- War Hero Earn every gold medal during Story Mode 8.1%
- Neverending Legend Earn every Squad Assault Mode gold medal 7.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.