Broken Lines

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 711 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 282 reviews: 9.8h for positive, 5h 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 (86.6% 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 (79)

• Pleased to Meet You Introduce yourself to the locals 100%
• Wreck Complete the level “Wreck” 87%
• Top Student Gain a gold medal from a mission 87%
• Uncertainty Complete the level “Uncertainty” 67%
• Stop Pointing Kill an enemy officer 52%
• Out of the Frying Pan Release Fry from Prison 49%
• Rewind Restart a level 49%
• Release Complete the level “Release” 47%
• Graduate Complete all boot camp levels 43%
• Capitalism Buy a weapon from Izkor 42%
• Personal Development Unlock a second Trait on a Soldier 33%
• Final Insult Experience Lieutenant Brooks final words 29%
• Survival Complete the level “Survival” 29%
• Certainty Complete the level “Certainty” 29%
• Crybabies Have all your soldiers panic at the same time 29%
• They Started It! Kill 101 enemies 26%
• Facetime Unmask an enemy 26%
• Contact Complete the level “Contact” 23%
• Tin Can Destroy a tank 20%
• Retribution Complete the level “Retribution” 19%
• Decency Complete the level “Decency” 19%
• Consequence Complete the level “Consequence” 18%
• Boom Sticks Find a crate with explosives 18%
• My Little Friend Buy the best submachine gun: Sturmgewehr 17%
• Worry Complete the level “Worry” 16%
• Strength Complete the level “Strength” 16%
• Freakout! Encounter the maskless enemies 16%
• Clarity Complete the level “Clarity” 15%
• Gatekeeping Real Hard Buy the best rifle: Mosin-Nagant Scoped Rifle 14%
• Fully Stacked Equip a soldier with 3 abilities, 3 traits, and all equipment slots 13%
• Winter is Coming End the campaign and walk home over the mountains 12%
• Greed Complete the level “Greed” 12%
• Efficient Elimination Kill 5 or more enemy soldiers in a single turn 12%
• Mischief Complete the level “Mischief” 11%
• Spray and Pray Use Suppression 100 times 11%
• Hunter Gatherer Find more than 10 supply crates in various levels during the same campaign 11%
• Casual Racism King and Sherman have a confrontation 11%
• Chunk Chunk Goes the Train Buy the best shotgun: Browning Automatic 5 10%
• Bechdel Passed Conner and Hailey talk about her scar 10%
• Power Complete the level “Power” 10%
• The Clash Fry and Hailey start fighting 9.8%
• They Can Pet the Dog Wood and Hailey find the dog 9.8%
• Taking One for the Team Sacrifice a soldier to blow up the dam 9.4%
• Big Cans Avery finds out about Wood’s fling 9.0%
• Boom Goes the Dynamite End the campaign and blow up the dam 8.9%
• Tsunami Warn the civilians about the upcoming flooding 8.7%
• Spirit Complete the level “Spirit” 8.4%
• Revenge Complete the level “Revenge” 8.3%
• Recoil Complete the level “Recoil” 7.5%
• Goodbye Mates Have a soldier desert your squad 7.5%
• Pedal to the Metal Find petroleum 7.4%
• Ambush Complete the level “Ambush” 7.2%
• Shock and Awe Kill three enemies with one grenade 5.9%
• The Eagle Has Come End the campaign and get successfully extracted by a plane 5.3%
• Local Cuisine Eat Izkor’s stew 5.3%
• Cruelty Complete the level “Cruelty” 4.8%
• It Never Changes Morgan opens up to Conner 4.4%
• The Silence Blow up the radio tower 4.2%
• Evasion Complete the level “Evasion” 4.2%
• No Escape Encounter the blocked mountain pass 4.2%
• Pest Control End the campaign and get surrounded and killed by vengeful enemies 3.2%
• Swift Retribution Complete Retribution level in less than 3 minutes 3.1%
• And Stay Down! Kill an enemy after knocking them down 3 times 2.9%
• Why Oh Why? Buy the fake grenade 2.8%
• The One Percent Own more than 100 salvage 2.8%
• Narrow Escape Complete the campaign with 4 dead soldiers 2.3%
• Innocent Bystanders Cause 10 civilian casualties 2.3%
• I Am the Trap! Kill all enemies in the ambush in the level Ambush! 2.2%
• The Punch Conner rejects Avery’s advances 2.2%
• Speed Dating Complete Contact level in less than 2 minutes and 20 seconds 2.2%
• Poor and Homeless Own 0 supplies and 0 salvage 1.8%
• Pitchforks End the campaign and get surrounded and killed by angry civilians 1.7%
• Road Trip End the campaign and drive away over the mountains 1.5%
• It’s a Trap Get your squad killed in Ambush! 1.0%
• Bad Game Design Fail a boot camp level 0.9%
• Completionist Complete all levels in the entire game over several playthroughs 0.9%
• No Hope Lose a campaign 0.8%
• Anti Capitalism End a campaign and never buy anything from Izkor’s shop 0.7%
• Go Outside! Experience all possible endings in the game 0.5%