Strategy
ICBM
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 29% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 1,934
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 7h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 29% 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 1,962 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 11.4h 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 (28.7% 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 (20)
- Superhero Win and save 95% of your population 100%
- Guardian Angel Intercept at least 25 enemy ICBMs with Satelites 80%
- No Mercy Kill 80% of enemy population in 3+ players game 56%
- Researcher Discover all techologies in a single game 41%
- Pre-emptive striker Destroy a total of 10 enemy silos before they can launch any Nukes 41%
- Winner Win one Multiplayer game 39%
- For the greater good Sacrifice 10 bombers by dropping bombs beyond return range 31%
- Major Winner Be the only player in positives in 5+ players game (Default Scoring) 29%
- Admiral Build a fleet of 10+ carriers and win a game 26%
- Had enough yet Reduce the population of a city to less than 1000 in Multiplayer 26%
- Pacifist Save 100% of your population and kill nobody in 5+ players game 16%
- Big Bomb Drop twenty 50MT bombs in a single Multiplayer game 15%
- Universal General Win at least one for each faction 8.7%
- Kill The World Kill the total of 7.8 billion people 7.3%
- Submarine commander Win the game using only the submarine-based nukes 5.6%
- Reserves Build a reserve of 5000 MT before dropping a single bomb (Multiplayer) 4.5%
- Field Marshal Win 50 games, single or multiplayer 3.8%
- Champion Win 10 Multiplayer games 2.8%
- Master of micro Win using only the mobile ICBMs and MRBMs 2.4%
- Great Master Achieve the rating of 1500+ 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.