Strategy
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic)
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 41% of owners
Steam reviews 85% positive of 1,494
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (49%); after 15h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised more than in 77% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 41% 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 1,499 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 23.1h for positive, 4.4h 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 (41.3% 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 (12)
- Chicken Dinner Win a battle 100%
- Ork's Bane Kill 100 Orks 41%
- That's Good Barbecue Kill 25 units with flame attacks 21%
- Shazbot Kill a Morkanout 16%
- That’ll Tzeentch You! Kill 100 Chaos units 8.0%
- All The Toys Win a sandbox game 7.7%
- Lupophobia Kill 100 Space Wolves 7.5%
- Not So Thirsty Now! Destroy a Lord of Skulls 7.0%
- Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Kill 100 Astra Militarum 4.1%
- Play Freeblade! Kill a Freeblade 3.6%
- Street Fighting Win a multiplayer game 3.6%
- That's Heavy Dude... Destroy a Shadowsword 3.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.