When does Chornobyl Liquidators get good?

Give it 5 hours. In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (70%); after 5h it's almost 1 in 2 (40%). The opening is criticised more than in 96% of games we track.

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Chornobyl Liquidators

Jun 6, 2024 Steam: Mixed

Give it 5 hours

Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans

Started playing 55% of owners

Steam reviews 49% positive of 720

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (70%); after 5h it's almost 1 in 2 (40%).
The opening is criticised more than in 96% of games we track.
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 728 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 6.2h for positive, 1.7h 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 (54.7% 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 (19)

Medal for "Courage in a Fire" You have completed Act I 100%
Librarian You found the first documents 76%
Ghost Town You have completed Act II 56%
Wetwork Man You removed the radiation throughout the entire town of Pripyat 45%
Semper fidelis You have completed Epilogue 41%
Villageside Picnic You have completed Act III 35%
Spring cleaning You removed the radiation throughout the entire Zamoysha village 35%
Top Secret In Pripyat, you decided to help the scientists 26%
Comrade citizen In Pripyat, you decided to cooperate with the KGB 25%
Lesser Evil In Zamoysha village, you sided with the residents 24%
One... two... three... woodpecker pecks the tree! You have completed Act IV 24%
Memini tui, memento mei You have completed Act V 21%
Man of the people You convinced the residents to evacuate 19%
Dies Irae You decided to act in line with the KGB 18%
Fancy footwork You revealed what happened at the Duga complex 14%
Lead belly You've removed 1000 points of radiation from your body 13%
It's just a scratch You've healed 1000 points of health 7.5%
On mother Russia's secret service You concealed what happened at the Duga complex 6.2%
Wind of Change You listened to the broadcast of "Radio Freedom" 3.7%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.