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Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic)
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 29% of owners
Steam reviews 62% positive of 1,655
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (64%); after 5h it's 1 in 5 (20%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The opening is criticised more than in 92% of games we track.
- Only 28% 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 1,671 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 153 reviews: 6.5h for positive, 2.3h 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 (28.5% 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 (62)
- Lucky Roll 1 crit in an attack or defense roll 100%
- Very Lucky Roll 2 crits in an attack or defense roll 55%
- Heavy Hitter Deal 5 damage in single attack 36%
- Khorne's Instrument Inflict 40 wounds with Magore 33%
- Karma Kill a fighter with Reflected Injury 33%
- Vampiric Vitality Heal 10 wounds with Vampiric Weapon 33%
- Smash 'Em Kill 15 fighters with Gurzag 31%
- Equal Opportunist Heal 20 fighters with Tainted Vitality 31%
- Berserk Inflict 40 wounds with Fjul 31%
- Rigged Roll 3 crits in an attack or defense roll 31%
- Champion of Sigmar Inspire Severin 15 times 31%
- Eternal Service Return 15 fighters with The Warden 31%
- Skulls For The Skull Throne Win 20 Games as Magore's Fiends 31%
- For Sigmar! Win 20 Games as Steelheart's Champions 31%
- None Shall Escape Make 30 attacks with The Briar Queen 31%
- Incantor Cast 30 Spells with Stormsire 31%
- Inevitable Kill 15 fighters with Viceroy Drepur 31%
- Endless Horror Summon the Blue Horror 15 times with Vortemis 31%
- Greater Calling Inspire Drakan 15 times 31%
- Kill-kill! Charge 20 times with Scritch 31%
- Behind Enemy Lines Inspire Sanson 15 times 31%
- By Her Command Win 20 Games as Thorns of the Briar Queen 31%
- Grimnir's Fury Win 20 Games as Chosen Axes 31%
- Evocation Win 20 Games as Stormsire's Cursebreakers 31%
- Unstoppable Glaives Win 20 Games as Drepur's Wraithcreepers 31%
- Arbiters Of Change Win 20 Games as Eyes of the Nine 31%
- Blood For The Blood God Win 20 Games as Garrek's Reavers 31%
- WAAAGH! Win 20 Games as Ironskull's Boyz 31%
- Necromancer's Will Win 20 Games as Sepulchral Guard 31%
- Castigate Win 20 Games as Storm of Celestus 31%
- Yes-yes! Win 20 Games as Spiteclaw's Swarm 31%
- Vanguard Win 20 Games as The Farstriders 31%
- Stick ‘em With the Pointy End Break 5 Shadeglass Spears 30%
- Accept Inevitability Score Accept Inevitability in a Casual or Ranked Match 30%
- Shard Storm Damage 10 fighters at once with Shardgale 30%
- Bad Friend Score Annihilation in a friend match 30%
- Annihilation Score Annihilation in a Casual or Ranked Match 30%
- Shadowy Grave Kill a fighter with Encroaching Shadow 30%
- Entropic Death Kill a fighter with Entropic Curse 30%
- Giant Killer Deal 7 damage in a single attack 30%
- Unrelenting Make 30 attacks with Garrek 30%
- Good Friend Score Accept Inevitability in a friend match 30%
- Dagger Dagger Dagger Break 5 Shadeglass Daggers 30%
- Regicide Score Assassinate 10 times 30%
- Guides Open the game guides menu 28%
- Key To Victory Score 10 glory using keys 27%
- Cut Down Inflict 50 wounds in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Greedy Earn 40 Glory in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Disciple Kill 20 fighters in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Novice Score 25 Objectives in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Sacrificial Pawn Earn glory from Sacrificial Pawn 27%
- Glory Seeker Earn 100 Glory in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Adept Kill 50 fighters in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Harvester Inflict 200 wounds in Casual or Ranked 27%
- Pick Pocket Steal 5 glory with Daylight Robbery 26%
- Plutomania Earn 500 Glory in Casual or Ranked 26%
- Champion Kill 100 fighters in Casual or Ranked 26%
- Master Score 200 Objectives in Casual or Ranked 26%
- Strategist Score 75 Objectives in Casual or Ranked 26%
- Unquenchable Inflict 500 wounds in Casual or Ranked 26%
- Unstoppable Kill 30 fighters with Mollog 22%
- Dankhold Savagery Win 20 Games as Mollog's Mob 21%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.