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Fortified
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 14% of owners
Steam reviews 74% positive of 1,735
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 4h it's 1 in 6 (18%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- Only 14% 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 1,744 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 108 reviews: 5.3h for positive, 3.4h 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 (13.5% 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 (23)
- Ivy Leaguer Complete a map other than Easy Street without the base taking damage 100%
- Goose It! Destroy an Annihilator before it deploys 96%
- Big Spender Spend more than $7,500 in any map other than Easy Street 88%
- Ice to Meet You Freeze 10 enemies within 1 second 83%
- Reporting For Duty Complete any map other than Easy Street using only infantry 82%
- Bring Him Down! Defeat the Juggernaut 73%
- Circuit Breaker Destroy 50 enemies using Tesla Coils in any single map other than Easy Street 68%
- Great Balls of Fire Set fire to 10 enemies simultaneously 66%
- Slugger Destroy 5 flying enemies in 5 seconds with the shotgun 63%
- Clanked! Defeat the Stalker 62%
- Beatnik Complete any map other than Easy Street without any structure kills 61%
- Square Complete every map on normal difficulty 59%
- Sharpshooter Destroy 10 enemies with the Rifle in 5 seconds 59%
- Cryo Baby Throw 10 enemies at once with the Cryo Blaster secondary attack 57%
- Stacked Unlock every structure and weapon 56%
- National Icon Reach level 20 56%
- They Shall Not Pass Complete any map on hard, other than Easy Street without taking damage 56%
- Cranked! Destroy 20 enemies within 1 second 55%
- Defenders of Freedom Reach level 20 with all player characters 55%
- Negative Perspiration Survive 10 waves of Invasion Mode 54%
- Earth's Protector Complete every map on hard 54%
- Fortified! Complete all maps on insane 54%
- Cloud Nine Survive to wave 20 in Invasion mode on hard 54%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.