AI War 2

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,572 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 28.3h for positive, 3.5h 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 (23.9% 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 (255)

• Research Grant Hack an Advanced Research Station to grant a new ship line. 100%
• Give a Man a Fish... Spend science to mark up a single Command Station or Battlestation. 91%
• Lots Of Energy Have 1 million energy. 91%
• Teach a Man to Fish... Raise a ship type to Tier VII. 85%
• Lots Of Metal Have 5 million metal. 71%
• Off to the Dire Graveyard Destroy a Dire Guardian. 68%
• Miffed AI Tech Level reached 3. 60%
• Kills: Warrior Kill 30,000 ships in a game. 52%
• Tech Tree Hack a Technology Vault to unlock a new technology. 46%
• Getting Into This: 5 Hour Campaign Reach a game time of 5 hours in a single game. 37%
• Kills: Merciless Kill 75,000 ships in a game. 37%
• Losses: In The Midst Of A Cold, Dark Winter Lose 30,000 ships in a game. 36%
• The Way Home Claim a Lost Spire Frigate. 36%
• Abandon All Cookies Ye Who Enter Here Keep hacking random mysterious homing beacons until something REALLY bad happens. 35%
• Win On 80 Planet Map Beat the game on an 80 planet map. 32%
• Take A Look At My Friends Beat the game with Human Resistance Fighters enabled. 29%
• Control 25 Control 25 planets simultaneously in a single game. 29%
• Angry AI Tech Level reached 5. 28%
• Library of Alexandria Hack a Spire Archive to extract science. 28%
• A Terminal Problem (Bronze) Hack the superterminal to reduce at least 30 AIP. 27%
• FOR SCIENCE! Retrieve spent science so that you can re-spec part of your fleet in response to a changing situation. 22%
• MUAHUAHUAHUAHUA Claim a Botnet Golem. 22%
• Kills: Xenocidal Kill 200,000 ships in a game. 21%
• Losses: For The Greater Good Lose 75,000 ships in a game. 20%
• Cruise Control Claim a Cruiser through hacking a Cruiser Construction Facility or stealing from the Zenith. 19%
• A Terminal Problem (Silver) Hack the superterminal to reduce at least 50 AIP. 19%
• Fully Arrayed Beat the Full Ensemble AI on any difficulty. 18%
• Lots Of Hacking Have 1 thousand Hacking points. 16%
• Creative Destruction Claim a Destroyer through hacking a Destroyer Construction Facility. 15%
• The Real Bloodbath Lose and kill 100,000 ships in a game. 15%
• Nearing The End? 10 Hour Campaign Reach a game time of 10 hours in a single game. 14%
• RAAAGH! AI Tech Level reached 7. 13%
• That's No Moon Beat the game with the Devourer Golem enabled. 13%
• Knowledge is Power Hack an Advanced Research Station to reroll the ship lines it can provide. 13%
• Weren't We On The Same Side Beat the game with Hostile to All Marauders with intensity >= 4 enabled. 12%
• Control 50 Control 50 planets simultaneously in a single game. 11%
• I Prefer A Real Spire Ship Claim a Spire Cruiser Flagship. 11%
• A Terminal Problem (Gold) Hack the superterminal to reduce at least 80 AIP. 11%
• Snap Out of It! Destroy a Dyson Antagonizer. 11%
• The Power Of The Sun In My Hand Beat the game with the Dyson Sphere enabled. 10%
• Treasure Hunter Analyze Spire debris. 10%
• Discounts Not Accepted Beat the game with the Zenith Trader enabled. 9.6%
• Nanobots Are No Fun Beat the game with Hostile to All Nanocaust with intensity >= 4 enabled. 9.6%
• Power, Unlimited Power! Hack a Templar Rift. 9.6%
• Allies After All Beat the game with friendly Marauders enabled. 9.2%
• The Essence Must Flow Kill A Feeble Elderling. 9.2%
• Scanning For Intelligent Life Scan for a Spire relic. 9.2%
• So We're the Bad Guys Now? Antagonize a Dyson Sphere through hacking. 7.9%
• Control 75 Control 75 planets simultaneously in a single game. 7.5%
• Defense Contractor Beat the game with Sappers enabled. 7.5%
• Losses: What Have We Done Lose 200,000 ships in a game. 7.5%
• We Didn't Start The Fire Beat at least 2 AIs in Civil War mode. 7.1%
• Yet Divided Beat the Full Ensemble AI on difficulty >= 7. 7.1%
• Get The Bug Spray Beat the game with Hostile to All Macrophage Infestation with intensity >= 4 enabled. 6.7%
• This Will Definitely Make Things Better And Not Worse Deliberately provoke the Dark Spire through hacking. 6.7%
• Hey, Lighten Up! Beat the game with Dark Spire with intensity >= 4 enabled. 6.3%
• Long One: 15 Hour Campaign Reach a game time of 15 hours in a single game. 6.3%
• Cosmic Omelet Destroy an Elderling Egg. 5.4%
• Counter Counter Strike! Beat the Reconquista AI on any difficulty. 5.4%
• Derailment Beat the game with Astro Trains with intensity >= 4 enabled. 5.4%
• I Said A Real Spire Ship Claim a Spire Battleship Flagship. 5.4%
• Blood For The Blood God, Skulls For The Skull Throne Sacrifice an Elderling. 5.0%
• Win On 120 Planet Map Beat the game on a 120 planet map. 5.0%
• Hey, That Was Mine! Beat the Reconquista AI on difficulty >= 7. 4.6%
• Risk It for the Biscuit Beat the game with Risk Analyzers with intensity >= 4 enabled. 4.6%
• Wheel of Misfortune Beat the Adaptive Moderate AI on any difficulty. 4.6%
• Shellcracker! Beat the Turtle AI on ANY difficulty. 4.2%
• Slot Machine Beat the Adaptive Easier AI on any difficulty. 4.2%
• Someone Call The Exterminator Beat the game with Hostile to All Macrophage Infestation with intensity >= 7 enabled. 4.2%
• Two Can Play At Disproportionate Response! Beat the Overreactive AI on any difficulty. 4.2%
• Yarr Harr! Beat the game with Hostile to All Marauders with intensity >= 7 enabled. 4.2%
• You're Cut Off! Beat the Barfighter AI on any difficulty. 4.2%
• Broken Sledge Beat the Sledgehammer AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Cataclysm Averted Beat the game with Hostile to All Nanocaust with intensity >= 7 enabled. 3.8%
• Control 100 Control 100 planets simultaneously in a single game. 3.8%
• Fall Back! Beat the Special Forces Master AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.8%
• Fort Buster Beat the Fortress Baron AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Long Live The King Destroy the Templar Sovereign. 3.8%
• Man Down! Beat the Special Forces Master AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Necromancer Win Win with the necromancer enabled. 3.8%
• Our Shields Were Too Strong! Beat the Shield Hater AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Outbreak Beat the Zombifyier AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• The Powers Of Two Were Not Enough Beat the Quadratic AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Tide Turner! Beat the Tsunami AI on any difficulty. 3.8%
• Attempted Burglary Beat the Thief AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• A Rather Extreme Reaction Beat the Overreactive AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• A Warm Welcome Beat the Wormhole Master AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• All Your Base Are Belong To Us Corrupt a Templar Castle. 3.3%
• Bullshark Slayer Win with 'Shark B' enabled. 3.3%
• Containment Beat the Zombifyier AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Crush the Castle! Beat the Fortress Baron AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Diplomacy Is Overrated Beat the Peace Maker AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• They Don't Appear To Be Friendly Beat the game with Dark Zenith with intensity >= 4 enabled. 3.3%
• Don't Open That Door Beat the One Way Doormaster AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• End of the Line Beat the game with Astro Trains with intensity >= 7 enabled. 3.3%
• Fighting a Shadow Destroy the Ravenous Shadow. 3.3%
• Fumigated Beat the game with Hostile to All Macrophage Infestation with intensity = 10 enabled. 3.3%
• Ghostbusters! Beat the Ghost AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• Howdy Neighbor! Beat the game with Spire Sphere enabled. 3.3%
• I'll Be Waiting For You On The Other Side Beat the Wormhole Master AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• Intergalactic Insurance Agency Beat the game with Risk Analyzers with intensity = 10 enabled. 3.3%
• I Hate Camping! Beat the Sniper AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• I Hate Spiders! Beat the Ensnarer AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• Okay, Who Woke Them Up? Beat the game with Dark Spire with intensity >= 7 enabled. 3.3%
• Resistance Was Not Futile Beat the game with Hostile to All Nanocaust with intensity = 10 enabled. 3.3%
• Risky Business Beat the game with Risk Analyzers with intensity >= 7 enabled. 3.3%
• Splash Damage Beat the Swarmer AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• The Fire Rises Beat at least 3 AIs in Civil War mode. 3.3%
• Think The AI Won't Notice? Upgrade a Spire City to Mark VII. 3.3%
• Turtle Soup! Beat the Turtle AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Vandals At The Gates Beat the game with Hostile to All Marauders with intensity = 10 enabled. 3.3%
• Viva La Revolution Beat the Royal AI on any difficulty. 3.3%
• Wherever We May Roam Beat the game with Migrant Fleets enabled. 3.3%
• Wheel of Doom Beat the Adaptive Moderate AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Win On 160 Planet Map Beat the game on a 160 planet map. 3.3%
• Withstood The Tide Beat the Tsunami AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Wrong Tool Beat the Sledgehammer AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• You're Outta Here Buddy! Beat the Barfighter AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• Your Math Is Off Beat the Quadratic AI on difficulty >= 7. 3.3%
• And Conquered Beat the Full Ensemble AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.9%
• Betting on Black Beat the Adaptive Easier AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Brutal Metamorphoser Beat the Adaptive Brutal AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Brutal Mutator Beat the Adaptive Brutal AI on any difficulty. 2.9%
• Caught Red Handed Beat the Thief AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Cobra Eyes Beat the Adaptive Hard AI on any difficulty. 2.9%
• I Would Like To Make A Collect Call Build the Spire Transceiver. 2.9%
• Darkness Overpowering Beat the game with Dark Spire with intensity = 10 enabled. 2.9%
• Erratic Command Beat the Adaptive Full AI on any difficulty. 2.9%
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Destroy the Jormugandr. 2.9%
• Hey, Get Over Here! Beat the Sniper AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• The Hubris Before the Fall Summon a Transcendent Elderling. 2.9%
• I Can See You, You Know Beat the Ghost AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Kites Get Struck By Lightning, You Know Beat the game with a 'Kite Master' Hunter Fleet with intensity >= 4 enabled. 2.9%
• Last Stop Beat the game with Astro Trains with intensity = 10 enabled. 2.9%
• Lockpicked Beat the One Way Doormaster AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Megalodon Hunter Win with 'Shark A' enabled. 2.9%
• It's Borrowing, Not Stealing Steal Dark Zenith ship designs by hacking the Dark Zenith Library. 2.9%
• Phased And Confused Beat the game with Hostile to All Zenith Architrave with intensity >= 4 enabled. 2.9%
• Set Phasers To Stun Steal Zenith Architrave ship designs by hacking the Castra. 2.9%
• Picking On The Little Guys Beat the Swarmer AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Rabid Defender Beat the Vicious Raider AI on any difficulty. 2.9%
• Raid Fail Beat the Vicious Raider AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Shields Still At Full, Captain Beat the Shield Hater AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Sibling Rivalry Beat the game with Neinzul Custodians enabled. 2.9%
• The Bigger They Are Beat the Golemite AI on any difficulty. 2.9%
• The Flames Consume Beat at least 4 AIs in Civil War mode. 2.9%
• The Harder They Fall Beat the Golemite AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Uprising Beat the Royal AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Violent Negotiations Beat the Peace Maker AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Viper Eyes Beat the Adaptive Hard AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Viva La Resistance! Destroy the Scourge Subjugator. 2.9%
• Volatile Personality Core Beat the Adaptive Full AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• We Mine You! Destroy a Zenith Miner. 2.9%
• Why Was I Ever Afraid? Beat the Ensnarer AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.9%
• Apocalypse Never Beat the Ragnarok AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.5%
• Arach No Beat the Ensnarer AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Arena Champion Beat the Gladiator AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.5%
• Backdoor Closed Beat the Wormhole Master AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Better Not Come Back! Beat the Barfighter AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Born To Be Wild Beat the game with Neinzul Wild Hives enabled. 2.5%
• Brutal Transmuter Beat the Adaptive Brutal AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Let Bygones Be Bygones Beat the game with the Splintering Spire enabled. 2.5%
• Calm In The Storm Beat the Tsunami AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Chicken Little Beat the Ragnarok AI on any difficulty. 2.5%
• Critical Mission Failure! Beat the Special Forces Master AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Delicate Delicacy Beat the Turtle AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Dethroned Beat the Royal AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Dispelled Apparition Beat the Ghost AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Divided By Zero Beat the Quadratic AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Eradication Beat the Zombifyier AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Face To Face Beat the Sniper AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Hit A Brick Wall Beat the Vicious Raider AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• How The Mighty Have Fallen Beat the Golemite AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Should Have Joined Our Federation Beat the game with Hostile to All Players Scourge with intensity >= 4 enabled. 2.5%
• Last One Standing Beat the Gladiator AI on any difficulty. 2.5%
• Mercurial Mind Beat the Adaptive Full AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• A New Foe Has Appeared Beat the game with Dark Zenith with intensity >= 7 enabled. 2.5%
• No Bridge Explosions For Once Beat the Shield Hater AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Open Sesame Beat the One Way Doormaster AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• More Like Passive Aggressive Beat the Aggressor AI on any difficulty. 2.5%
• Peace Through Superior Firepower Beat the Peace Maker AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Perfection Claim a Spire Dreadnought Flagship. 2.5%
• Sentenced To Defeat Beat the Thief AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Taipan Eyes Beat the Adaptive Hard AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Too Tough A Nail Beat the Sledgehammer AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Vegas Victory Beat the Adaptive Easier AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Walls Tumbling Down Beat the Fortress Baron AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Wasn't Enough Of Them Beat the Swarmer AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• What Was Rightfully Mine Beat the Reconquista AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Wheel of Torture Beat the Adaptive Moderate AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Yet Still Not Enough Beat the Overreactive AI on difficulty >= 9. 2.5%
• Ad Astra per Aspera Beat the Aedile AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Calm Down Beat the Vengeful AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Can't Touch This Beat the Reservist AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Off The Deep End Beat the Reservist AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.1%
• Divide And Conquer Beat the game with Hostile to Players Scourge with intensity >= 7 enabled. 2.1%
• Don't Be So Petty Beat the Vengeful AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.1%
• Feel My Vengence Destroy the Scourge Nemesis. 2.1%
• What Goes Around Comes Around Beat the Orbital AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.1%
• Brought A Gun To A Hammer Fight Beat the Spire Hammer AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.1%
• Hammer Time Beat the Spire Hammer AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Leave My Stuff Alone! Beat the game with the Chromatic Horror enabled. 2.1%
• Didn't Mean To Make You Cry Destroy a Mothership. 2.1%
• Non Ducor, Duco Beat the Aedile AI on difficulty >= 7. 2.1%
• Running In Circles Beat the Orbital AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Should Have Diversified Beat the Vanguard AI on any difficulty. 2.1%
• Stay Off My Lawn Beat the game with Hostile to All Zenith Architrave with intensity >= 7 enabled. 2.1%
• Uneasy Allies Make a temporary truce with a Zenith Architrave by hacking their home portal. 2.1%
• Beast Master Beat the Beast AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Beauty Beats Brawn Beat the Beast AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Best Two Out Of Three? Beat the Skirmisher AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Right Between The Eyes Beat the Panopticon AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Found A Blind Spot Beat the Panopticon AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Pass the Bug Spray Beat the Neinzul Enthusiast AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• They Call Me The Exterminator Beat the Neinzul Enthusiast AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• The Chosen One Beat the Ragnarok AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Coup de Grace Beat the Gladiator AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn Beat the game with Dark Zenith with intensity = 10 enabled. 1.7%
• Et Tu, Brute? Beat the Praetor AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• These Feet Are Made For Roaming Win with Nomad Galaxy' enabled. 1.7%
• Left The Flanks Wide Open Beat the Vanguard AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• O Frabjous Day! Beat the Jabberwock AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Gene Slicer Beat the Geneticist AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Not Quite The Guardians Of The Galaxy Beat the Vanguard AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Hero's Journey To A Dead End Beat the Heroic AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Should Have Brought the Kitchen Sink Beat the Reservist AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Lab Rat Beat the Geneticist AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Natural Selection Beat the Geneticist AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Why Don't You Pick On Someone Your Own Size? the Aggressor AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Push The Red Button Steal a Gray Spire Warhead. 1.7%
• Vincit Qui Se Vincit Beat the Aedile AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Race Against Time Beat the game with Hostile to All Scourge with intensity = 10 enabled. 1.7%
• Run Into the Ground Beat the Speedster AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Sic Semper Tyrannis Beat the Praetor AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Thou Hast Slain the Jabberwock Beat the Jabberwock AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• The Spire Must Be Pushovers Beat the Spire Hammer AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• Showdown Win Win with the showdown device enabled. 1.7%
• No Time For Losers Beat the Skirmisher AI on difficulty >= 7. 1.7%
• Tortoise Beats Hare Beat the Speedster AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Tragic Hero Beat the Heroic AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Trespassers Will Be Shot Beat the game with Hostile to All Zenith Architrave with intensity = 10 enabled. 1.7%
• Unmoored Use a Zenith Miner to make a planet nomadic. 1.7%
• Veni Vidi Vici Beat the Praetor AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• The Vorpal Blade Went Snicker-Snack Beat the Jabberwock AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• We Are The Champions Beat the Skirmisher AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• We Will Dissimilate You Beat the Beast AI on any difficulty. 1.7%
• Why So Serious? Beat the Vengeful AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.7%
• You Did This Without Cheating? Destroy the Flenser. 1.7%
• All Bark And No Bite Beat the Aggressor AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%
• You Can't See Me Beat the Panopticon AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%
• Curb Your Enthusiasm Beat the Neinzul Enthusiast AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%
• Independence Day Beat the Orbital AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%
• It's A Marathon Not A Sprint Beat the Speedster AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%
• And I Thought Snipers Had Long Range Steal a Chromatic Spire Interplanetary Weapon. 1.3%
• I Thought I Was The Protagonist Beat the Heroic AI on difficulty >= 9. 1.3%