Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition

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 2,320 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 261 reviews: 30.9h for positive, 17h 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 (86.1% 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 (45)

• No Flag, No Country Claim a region for your capital 100%
• Fetch This Complete an Event 99%
• X Marks the Spot Clear 10 caches with a Scout over any number of games 91%
• One of Us! One of Us! Peacefully assimilate a Tribe 85%
• They Should Have Sent a Poet Create any Masterpiece 69%
• OoOOoooOOooooo Shiny Construct a Triumph 61%
• The Power is Yours Have 25 different Crafting Improvements producing at the same time 49%
• Let's Go Out to the Kitchen Reach Act 2 49%
• Another One Bites the Dust Win any war in a single player game 48%
• We Needed More Parking… Raze a City 36%
• The Enemy of My Enemy… While at war, join an alliance with another nation in a single player game 31%
• Professor of Cracked Pots Hold over 100 Ceramic Pots 30%
• Everywhere You Look Completely fill your Adviser roles 29%
• Slow and Steady Wins the Race In a single player game, increase your Prestige by 3 or more ranks in a single turn 26%
• The One Where They Might Win Reach Act 3 23%
• A Festivus for the Rest of Us Found a custom Religion 19%
• Wagyu, Wine Not? Have 10 each of Feasts, Wines, and Gourmet Meals in your inventory 18%
• Wizards on the Coasts Have a city on the coastline where Wicca is the dominant Religion 16%
• Good News, Everyone! Reach the Singularity Era first in a game 15%
• History Now Told Win a game at any difficulty level 14%
• Hannibal, Take Notes Use an Elephant Unit in a Force that captures a city in a snowy Region 7.5%
• The Rats Don't Run This City, We Do Have a city with Prosperity in the top tier and Security at the lowest 7.2%
• We Came, We Saw, We Concreted Have your capital reach the highest population tier 7.1%
• Gotta Craft 'Em All Unlock every crafting recipe in a single game 5.1%
• But Can I Pet the Dog? See if he's a good boy 4.3%
• Race You To It Come first in 20 Act Goals over any number of games 3.9%
• Copernicus' Secrets As Copernicus research Optics before any other nation 3.8%
• Goblin Mode, Go Pillage at least 10 Improvements in one turn 1.5%
• Unsinkable! As Otto von Bismarck, have the largest navy during Act 3 1.4%
• One to Rule Them All Win a single player game while having only a single City 1.0%
• Sage, Serpent, or Sovereign As China, win a war with Zhuge Liang, Sun Tzu, or Pingyang in an army 0.8%
• And Then There Were None Win by being the only nation left in a single player game with at least 8 Nations 0.8%
• This. Is. SPARRRTAAAAAA!!!! In a single player game, as the Greeks, defeat Xerxes I in Act 1 in any war 0.8%
• The Model of a Modern Major General Place a Great Musician in a fleet with a Frigate 0.7%
• You're Taller Than I Thought Win a single player game at "Emperor" difficulty 0.7%
• Zootopia Win a game where every city you own still has a predator 0.6%
• Barbenheimer As a female or nonbinary leader, bombard cities 100 times over any number of games 0.6%
• Ready Player Two Win a multiplayer game 0.5%
• Fahrenheit or Celsus As Sappho, build the Library of Celsus in any snowy Biome 0.5%
• Master of the Universe Defeat 100 Nations over any number of games 0.3%
• What About D'Artagnan? As France, have a Battalion of three Musketmen win a battle 0.3%
• Our Ninjocity is off the Charts Obtain Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael 0.2%
• 20,000 Leagues of Visible Sea On a single map, have full visibility on all ocean regions 0.2%
• The Great Schmoozer Become Allies with 10 other Nations at the same time in a single player game 0.2%
• …With Your Planes on the Ground Defeat 100 Air Forces over any number of games 0.2%