Airships: Conquer the Skies
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 20h it's 1 in 45 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 67% 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 6,665 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 34.2h for positive, 16.4h 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 (66.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (34)
story milestone ending side
- Mandatory Change of Ownership Capture an enemy ship. 100%
- Smash the Skies Completely destroy an enemy ship by ramming it. 70%
- Forced Landing Force down an enemy airship. 69%
- One Giant (Unplanned) Leap Cause enemy marines to mis-jump and fall to the ground. 51%
- Heraldry Register your coat of arms. 45%
- Opulent And Imperial Build five upgrades in one city. 35%
- A Convenient Perch Land your ship on a floating rock. 34%
- The Strong Do What They Can And The Weak Suffer What They Must Extract tribute in exchange for peace. 32%
- We Have Reserves Win a battle with at least 100 crew lost. 22%
- Broadside Fire ten heavy cannon at once. 21%
- Exterminator Clear five biological monster nests in one game. 17%
- Air Superiority Destroy five enemy aircraft with your own aircraft in one combat. 16%
- Conquer Together Win an alliance victory. 14%
- Conquer the 'Net Win a multiplayer battle. 11%
- Restitutor Orbis Crown yourself emperor. 9.3%
- You Take Care Of The Girl, I'll Go For The High Priest Stop the ominous chanting in time. 5.4%
- Dulce Et Decorum Est Lose 1000 crew in a single game. 5.2%
- Are We The Baddies? Win through conquest while hated. 4.9%
- I Am Altering The Deal Break a treaty without losing any reputation. 4.6%
- Eaten Last Form an alliance with a cultist empire. 3.0%
- The Age Of The Worm Complete the Final Ritual. 2.7%
- Sobieskilicious Destroy three enemy ships with aerial hussars in one combat. 2.4%
- They Laughed At Me At The Academy Build a fleshcracker and a mech squid. 2.4%
- Landships: Conquer The Land Win a game without building any airships. 2.2%
- Outrage Overflow Exception Provoke an age of unrest. 1.9%
- Dogfight Win a multiplayer battle in the $200 fleet limit category. 1.8%
- Crush Depth Lose a ship to sinking. 1.8%
- Shaving With Friends Destroy a saw-equipped ship with a saw of your own. 1.5%
- Dumb Ways to Die Fight a battle with crew dead for at least 10 different reasons. 1.2%
- Hentai Defeat an aerial kraken using robotic tentacles. 0.7%
- Invictus Win a game on Very Hard or Imperial without ever losing any territory. 0.7%
- Chronic Backstabbing Syndrome Break an alliance three times in one game. 0.6%
- Coronatus Interruptus Sabotage a coronation three times in the same game. 0.3%
- Mile Deep Club Push an enemy ship underwater. 0.3%