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Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 58% of players who started
Started playing 75% of owners
Steam reviews 65% positive of 25,624
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 10h it's 1 in 4 (26%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 58% of players who start reach the ending.
- 75% of owners got the first achievement.
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 25,763 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 7.2h for positive, 4.7h 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 (74.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Seoul Mates Complete "Induction." 100%
- Welcome to Atlas Complete "Atlas." Most players quit here 92% −8
- Life in the Fast Lane Complete "Traffic." 86% −7
- Radioactive Complete "Fission." 81% −5
- Motor City Complete "Aftermath." 76% −5
- Born to Die Complete "Manhunt." 73% −3
- Betrayal Complete "Utopia." 71% −2
- Crates on a Plane Complete "Sentinel." 69% −2
- The Destroyer Returns Complete "Crash." 69% −1
- Irons in the Fire Complete "Bio Lab." 66% −3
- GG Complete "Collapse." 65% −1
- Wrath of Atlas Complete "Armada." 64% −1
- Manticore Unleashed Complete "Throttle." 62% −2
- The Wheat from the Chaff Complete "Captured." 61% −1
- A New Era Complete the campaign on any difficulty. 58% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (45)
story milestone ending side
- Seoul Mates Complete "Induction." 100%
- Advanced Soldier Spend your first Exo upgrade point. 97%
- Welcome to Atlas Complete "Atlas." 92%
- Life in the Fast Lane Complete "Traffic." 86%
- Radioactive Complete "Fission." 81%
- Threat Detected Paint 10 enemies with a single threat grenade. 81%
- Not On My Watch Prevent the walking tank from being destroyed by the Drone Swarm in "Induction." 80%
- Second Skin Spend 10 Exo upgrade points. 77%
- Motor City Complete "Aftermath." 76%
- Born to Die Complete "Manhunt." 73%
- Betrayal Complete "Utopia." 71%
- Crates on a Plane Complete "Sentinel." 69%
- The Destroyer Returns Complete "Crash." 69%
- Irons in the Fire Complete "Bio Lab." 66%
- GG Complete "Collapse." 65%
- Wrath of Atlas Complete "Armada." 64%
- Manticore Unleashed Complete "Throttle." 62%
- The Wheat from the Chaff Complete "Captured." 61%
- A New Era Complete the campaign on any difficulty. 58%
- We Have the Technology Spend 20 Exo upgrade points. 48%
- Deadeye Score "Excellent" in the shooting range in "Atlas." 48%
- Where Are You Going? Stop an AST with an EMP Grenade. 41%
- Genius Kill 4 enemies with a single smart grenade. 36%
- Fly Swatter Knock 25 Drones out of the sky with EMP Grenades. 36%
- Fire and Forget Kill 10 enemies with the Mobile Turret missiles in "Fission" 35%
- Carma Kill an enemy by throwing a car door at them. 29%
- Sitting Ducks Kill 3 enemies with one shot of the Sniper Drone in "Manhunt." 26%
- Grenadier Score "Excellent" in the grenade range in "Atlas." 17%
- Hard Hitter Complete the campaign on Hardened difficulty. 14%
- Heavy Handed Go through 20 gun drops in one-armed combat in "Captured." 9.3%
- Loud Enough For You? Kill 10 enemies or drones while affected by a sonic blast. 8.1%
- Riot Control Kill 20 enemies while linked to the Mobile Cover Drone. 8.0%
- Restricted Airspace EMP 10 enemy aircraft out of the sky with the hovertank in "Bio Lab." 7.3%
- SP Prestige Complete the campaign on Veteran difficulty. 6.9%
- Wheelman Finish the hoverbike drive hitting no walls or obstacles and taking no damage in "Aftermath." 6.4%
- History in the Making Collect over half of the intel. 6.1%
- Look Both Ways Kill all the KVA in the traffic section without damaging a civilian vehicle in "Traffic." 6.1%
- Never Saw it Coming Boost jump, dash forward, then air stomp on an enemy. 6.0%
- Escape Artist Avoid 20 grenades by dodging with your Exo. 5.9%
- Maximum Overdrive Kill 50 enemies while using Overdrive. 5.9%
- Man Overboard! Melee an enemy so they fly off the side of the ship in "Armada." 5.5%
- Power Changes Everything Completely upgrade your Exo. 5.2%
- Party Crasher Kill 20 enemies with the Grappling Hook in "Sentinel." 4.1%
- Ferrum Absconsum Collect all the intel. 4.0%
- Flying Ace Shoot down 10 enemies with machine guns in "Throttle." 3.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.