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Mech Armada
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Started playing 48% of owners
Steam reviews 81% positive of 702
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (50%); after 20h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 78% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 48% 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 709 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 13.1h for positive, 2.8h 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 (47.6% 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 (37)
- Goliath Down Win the Goliath boss fight 100%
- Let's Get Crackin' Win the Quake boss fight 96%
- Cloudy With a Chance of Rocks Win the Behemoth boss fight 72%
- Watch That Tail Win the Scourge Leader boss fight 71%
- Bursting With Energy Collect 1000 Energy Points 65%
- Ouch! That Stings! Win the Scorpion boss fight 59%
- Creepy Crawlies Win the Spider Queen boss fight 57%
- It's Hot In Here Win the Dragon boss fight 52%
- Pyrrhic Victory Defeat the Demon 51%
- Today's The Day Start a run with Today's Part 48%
- Got Sand in My Eye Win the Sandworm boss fight 48%
- Full Arsenal Unlock every part 37%
- Everybody Gets a Bomb Hit at least 6 monsters with a single attack 32%
- Green And Mean Win the Basilisk boss fight 31%
- Bad Breath Win the Hammerhead boss fight 29%
- Release the Kraken! Win the Kraken boss fight 27%
- 999 Defeat a Fog Creature by depleting its health 27%
- A Thousand Flavors Defeat every monster type at least once (except bosses and fog) 26%
- Let There Be Light Return to the base with a special weapon 25%
- Can't Touch This Increase the Defender body armor by 12 20%
- Meta Miner Collect Meta-Energy with a Landmine 19%
- Give Humanity Hope Defeat the cause of the invasion 13%
- Gas Gas Gas Spend 11 movement points or more in a single move 12%
- Stay Put Freeze a Sandworm Larva 9.5%
- All Bark No Bite Neutralize a Hopper from at least 2 tiles away 8.6%
- From the Shadows Hit a monster from range 8 or more with a single-target weapon 7.1%
- I Like Roguelikes Win a run with no Improvements 6.5%
- Now You See Me, Now You Don't Scrap a Kamikaze body in the same turn you spawn it 5.3%
- He Ran Into My Knife 10 Times Win a boss fight using only Tiles, Landmines and/or Airstrikes 4.8%
- Fully Expanded Collect every Expansion at least once 3.4%
- Game's Too Easy Win a Challenge 12 run 2.7%
- Hoarder Win a run without spending any credits on new parts 2.5%
- Mines Are Mechs Too Have a Teleporter swap places with a Landmine 1.7%
- One Man Army Win a run with no more than 1 mech in each battle 1.5%
- One of a Kind Win a run with 6 mechs on the field and no duplicate parts 1.3%
- Back to Basics Win a run using only tutorial parts 1.3%
- Been There Done That Spawn every part at least once 1.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.