Decision: Red Daze

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 910 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 22.5h for positive, 5.8h 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 (69% 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 (24)

• Squad Up Recruit your first Survivor. 100%
• Hachi Find a dog. 94%
• Fully Equipped Fully equip a Survivor. 51%
• Exterminator Kill 1000 enemies. 51%
• Democracy Change to 10 different Survivors. 51%
• Chief Recruit 50 settlers. 48%
• Good Mayor Expand a settlement to 100% 46%
• Legionnaire Assemble a squad of 7 fighters. 41%
• Wickedly Popular Earn 2000 reputation. 37%
• Hero Get a Survivor to the maximum level. 33%
• Trucker Find the branded truck. 32%
• Blood Splatter Kill 10 Enemies in 2 seconds 32%
• Employer Hire a Mercenary. 28%
• Kill 'Em All (Mutants) Kill every type of Mutant. 26%
• Western Troll Kill the Troll in the West 21%
• A local Spend 50 days in the Dust Bowl. 20%
• Friendly Fella Hire a Mutant Mercenary. 19%
• High Tower Build and completely upgrade a level 6 tower. 18%
• Governor Capture all settlements. 17%
• Rocketman Find or buy the best Rocket Launcher. 16%
• Fan Find the developers' banner. 16%
• Tower Defense Kill 20 enemies while in a turret. 16%
• Kill 'Em All (Zombies) Kill every type of Zombie 15%
• Eastern Troll Kill the Troll in the East 15%