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Jagged Alliance 3
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 57% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 15,310
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (44%); after 35h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 57% 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 15,392 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 31h for positive, 7.2h 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 (56.7% 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 (50)
story milestone ending side
- Different Ways To Die Killed an enemy with 5 different weapon types. 100%
- New Kid On The Block Created an I.M.P. merc. 97%
- Bullseye Killed 25 enemies with a headshot. 89%
- Breaking The Wall Killed an enemy with a shot through an obstacle. 84%
- Field Training Defended a sector with the help of militia without autoresolve. 82%
- Hot Diamonds Ambushed a diamond shipment and got the case. 77%
- Sabotage Reduced all defense shields of an Outpost. 68%
- Two Birds One Stone Killed two enemies with a single shot. 59%
- Flawless Victory Conquered an Outpost without losing HP. 58%
- Tactician Controlled at least 50 sectors. 58%
- Overwatchmen Made 10 overwatch shots in one turn. 57%
- Friendly Fire Hurt your own merc with the bullet that killed an enemy. 56%
- Born Killer Killed 5 enemies in one turn with a single merc. 52%
- Saw It Coming... Corazon betrayed you. 50%
- Gritty Dozen Have at least 12 hired mercs. 46%
- Living Legend Hired a Legendary merc. 45%
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us Controlled 5 sectors with an Outpost. 43%
- Just A Flesh Wound Taken 300 damage in a single turn without any merc dying or getting downed. 38%
- Modding Expert Installed 7 mods on a single weapon. 37%
- Love Cats Made Maman and Chimurenga get together. 36%
- Liberator Earned at least 75 Loyalty in 5 towns. 35%
- Lethal Weapons Killed 10 enemies in a single turn. 31%
- Truest Detective Caught the Teddy Bear killer. 24%
- Blood Rain Dealt 1000 damage to enemies in one turn. 23%
- Unlockdown Found a cure for the Red Rabies. 23%
- Silent and Deadly Killed 7 enemies in one sector without triggering combat. 22%
- Proven Innocent Gathered enough evidence to clear your name. 22%
- A Fistful Of Diamonds Controlled all sectors with mines. 21%
- True Crit Made 10 critical hits in one turn. 20%
- Apocalypse Later Hired the Major. 19%
- Twelve Chairs Found Madam Lecoq's diamond necklace. 17%
- Rehab Helped Larry overcome his addiction. 16%
- 10 Out Of 10 Have a Level 10 merc. 16%
- Natural Sprinter Moved a merc 35 tiles away in a single turn. 12%
- Green Diamond Obtained the Green Diamond. 12%
- Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner Chicken murderer. 11%
- A Long Shot Killed an enemy at extreme range. 8.6%
- Diesel Power Solved the Diesel problem. 8.3%
- Bullet Proof Finished the campaign without a single merc dying or getting downed. 7.8%
- Ready, Woody! Hired Gus. 7.6%
- X Marks the Spot Found Lucky Veinard's secret treasures. 7.1%
- Prizefighter Defeated all fighters in the Night Club. 6.0%
- Martial Artiste Conquered an Outpost without using firearms. 5.8%
- Psycho Chose a Psycho dialogue option 5 times. 4.8%
- Say My Name Did three morally bad things. 3.5%
- Pacifist Finished the campaign without killing any civilian. 3.0%
- Dynamic Duo Finished the campaign while having no more than two hired mercs at the same time. 1.9%
- Lone Wolf Finished the campaign while having no more than one hired merc at the same time. 1.8%
- Ironman Finished the game on the highest difficulty settings: “Mission Impossible”, “Dead is Dead”, “To The Bitter End”, “Lethal Weapons” and no “Forgiving Mode”. 1.6%
- Time Is Money Finished the campaign before 1 MAY, 2001. 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.