Call of Duty®: WWII
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (52%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (20%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 80% of games we track.
- 60% of players who start reach the ending.
- 80% 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 47,640 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 9.9h for positive, 6.1h 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 (80.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Long Way from Texas Complete D-Day. 100%
- The Paddle Complete Operation Cobra Most players quit here 92% −8
- No Sanctuary Complete Stronghold. 86% −6
- Last Stop Complete S.O.E. 80% −6
- Champagne and Caviar Complete Liberation 76% −4
- Human Cost Complete Collateral Damage. 70% −7
- Death Factory Complete Death Factory. 67% −2
- Our Men Complete Hill 493. 65% −2
- Worst Christmas Ever Complete Battle of the Bulge. 63% −2
- No Sacrifice Too Great Complete Ambush. 62% −1
- To the End Complete the campaign. 60% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Long Way from Texas Complete D-Day. 100%
- The Paddle Complete Operation Cobra 92%
- No Sanctuary Complete Stronghold. 86%
- Last Stop Complete S.O.E. 80%
- Champagne and Caviar Complete Liberation 76%
- Human Cost Complete Collateral Damage. 70%
- Death Factory Complete Death Factory. 67%
- Our Men Complete Hill 493. 65%
- Slow and Steady Spend 3 minutes using Focus in the campaign. 64%
- Worst Christmas Ever Complete Battle of the Bulge. 63%
- No Sacrifice Too Great Complete Ambush. 62%
- To the End Complete the campaign. 60%
- Potato Masher Save 5 allies by throwing away a live enemy grenade. 44%
- Silent Night Sneak through the courtyard undetected in Liberation. 37%
- Suppressive Fire! Successfully escort the pole charge engineer to the pillbox in Hill 493. 34%
- Infiltrated Reach the sniper perch without being detected in Ambush. 29%
- Praise and Pass Request Turner to toss you ammo 20 times. 28%
- Friend in Need Request Zussman to toss you First Aid Kits 30 times. 24%
- Ack Ack Protect your tanks by shooting down all planes in Operation Cobra. 19%
- School of Hard Knocks Request Stiles to toss you grenades 15 times 16%
- Who needs a pendant? Request Aiello to toss you signal smoke and call in mortar strikes 10 times 16%
- Quarter Given Get 6 groups of enemies to surrender. 15%
- Fog of War Sneak through the Dragon's Teeth undetected in Death Factory. 13%
- I See Movement Request Pierson to spot enemies 25 times. 10%
- I've got you! Drag 10 allies to safety. 9.4%
- Chain Smoker Disable 50 enemies using smoke grenades. 7.5%
- Marksman Cover Zussman from the church without missing a shot in Stronghold. 5.9%
- Rescuer Save 8 allies locked in struggle. 5.7%
- Flyboy Protect the bombers by personally shooting down 12 enemy planes. 5.6%
- Distinguished Service Complete the game on Veteran difficulty. 5.4%
- Sunday Driver Complete the driving portion of S.O.E. without hitting any obstacles. 3.7%
- One of the Lucky Few Breach the seawall in under two minutes without taking MG fire. 3.5%
- Pieces of History Collect all 33 mementos. 2.9%
- Gasoline Cowboy Rescue your allies with the Sherman while keeping your armor above 80%. 2.0%
- Defender Protect the convoy by shooting down all the planes in The Rhine. 1.7%