When does Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection get good?

Give it 10 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (63%); after 10h it's 1 in 4 (26%). The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.

How many players finish Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection?

42% of players who start reach the ending.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection

May 1, 2012 Steam: Mixed

Give it 10 hours

Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans

Reach the ending 42% of players who started

Started playing 83% of owners

Steam reviews 62% positive of 12,290

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (63%); after 10h it's 1 in 4 (26%).
The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
42% of players who start reach the ending.
Most players drop off before “Another Day in the Corps” (Complete Distress): only 82% of starters get there.
83% 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 12,352 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 7.7h for positive, 5.5h 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 (83.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Started playing 100%
Another Day in the Corps Complete Distress Most players quit here 82% −18
Bad Feeling About This Drop Complete Sulaco Falls 66% −16
Quoth the Raven Complete The Raven 56% −10
Still Got a Job to Do Complete Rampart 47% −8
Just a Grunt Complete Hope in Hadley's 45% −2
No Need For Alarm Complete One Bullet without setting off the alarm 43% −2
Dragged Queen Complete Home 43%
Game Over, Man! Complete all Campaign levels on any difficulty 42% −1

story milestone ending biggest drop-off

Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.

All achievements (60)

story milestone ending side

Eat This! Kill a Xenomorph with a shotgun at very close range 100%
Coming Outta the Walls! Kill a Xenomorph climbing on the walls or ceiling 98%
Field Promotion Earn Rank 2 as a Marine 98%
Another Bug Hunt Complete a Challenge 90%
Ready to Fry Half a City Edit a Marine Loadout 85%
Entry Prohibited Kill 10 Xenomorphs that are using vents 83%
Oorah to Ashes Collect a Dog Tag 82%
Another Day in the Corps Complete Distress 82%
Personal Friend of Mine Collect a Legendary Weapon 76%
Love at First Sight Survive a Close Encounter with a Facehugger 69%
Bad Feeling About This Drop Complete Sulaco Falls 66%
... But No Cigar Rescue a teammate from a Close Encounter 65%
Need a Deck Of Cards? Set up a UA 571-C Remote Sentry 63%
Let's Rock! Kill 10 Xenomorphs in a game with the M56A2 Smart Gun 56%
Quoth the Raven Complete The Raven 56%
Adios, Muchachos Gib two enemies at once 51%
Still Got a Job to Do Complete Rampart 47%
Secreted from What? Kill 5 Spitters without being damaged by acid 47%
Just a Grunt Complete Hope in Hadley's 45%
No Need For Alarm Complete One Bullet without setting off the alarm 43%
Dragged Queen Complete Home 43%
Game Over, Man! Complete all Campaign levels on any difficulty 42%
Micro Changes in Air Density Track 100 hostile targets with the Motion Tracker 40%
Don't Count Me Out Revive a teammate 37%
Mostly Come at Night… Find Newt's doll 35%
Fire Drill Arm the emergency release and escape in under 2:30 on Sulaco Falls 32%
Lean and Mean Earn Rank 20 as a Marine 26%
I Feel Safer Already Have another player join your party 25%
No Offense Melee a Lurker that is pouncing towards you 23%
Structural Perfection Edit a Xenomorph Loadout 20%
I Can Handle Myself Purchase all Upgrades for a weapon 18%
Anytime, Anywhere Kill a Crusher without it damaging you 17%
I Only Need To Know One Thing Find your family 16%
They Can Bill Me Destroy the Legato 15%
I Like to Keep These Handy Collect all 6 Legendary Weapons 15%
Not Bad For a Human Complete all Campaign levels on Hardened difficulty 13%
Field Modified, Kill Certified Upgrade every slot for a weapon 12%
I Don’t Got All Day Sever the umbilical without missing a shot 12%
Now What Are We Supposed To Do? Escape the FTL ship 12%
Adaptive Morphology Upgrade every Appearance slot once for a Xenomorph class 11%
We Are Leaving! Survive the Queen escape 11%
I Heard THAT Collect all 12 Audio Logs 11%
Thank You, That Will Be All Complete Stasis Interrupted on any difficulty 10%
They're Dead, OK? Can We Go Now? Kill all the Lurkers in Sulaco engineering 9.6%
Majority Shareholder Spend 30 Commendations 8.5%
Heavy Lifting Defeat the Raven in under 1:10 on Soldier difficulty or higher 7.8%
Easter Egg Find the Easter Egg 7.8%
State of the Badass Art Complete all Campaign levels on Ultimate Badass difficulty 7.7%
It's a Dry Heat Kill 3 enemies with a single U4 Firebomb 7.1%
Short, Controlled Bursts Defeat all Xenomorphs in the Sulaco hanger bay without them crossing your barricade 5.8%
Arbitrarily Exterminated Kill 2179 Xenomorphs 5.4%
We're Still Collating Find All Stasis Interrupted Audio Logs 4.9%
Perfect Killing Machine Upgrade every Loadout slot for a Xenomorph class 4.8%
Remember the Fallen Collect all 35 Dog Tags 4.3%
I’m Happy to Disappoint You Complete Stasis Interrupted on Ultimate Badass 4.0%
Stay Frosty Complete an entire Challenge category 3.5%
I Love the Corps! Earn Rank 60 as a Marine 3.1%
It's The Only Way To Be Sure Destroy all samples in the labs of the Queen module 3.0%
You Look Just Like I Feel Upgrade every Appearance slot once for your Marine 2.9%
Distinguished Service Medal Complete all Challenges 2.3%

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