Age of Defense

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 731 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 290 reviews: 5.2h for positive, 2.7h 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 (84.4% 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 (44)

• Listener Listen to the story about the creation of the world. 100%
• Annoying Wake up the old man. 100%
• Keeper Protect the cave from an unexpected invasion. 88%
• Curious Find out how it all began. 76%
• Strategist Improve the defense with sticks and stones. 73%
• Tamer Find and tame Ambulocetus. 62%
• Eyewitness Witness how Zeratul saves dinosaurs from extinction by destroying a meteorite. 58%
• Antibiotic Kill 750 unicellular organisms. 53%
• Octokiller Defeat the Giant Octopus. 51%
• Almighty Survive on all maps in all modes. 49%
• Carbon Sage Survive the great blizzard with the help of coal. 46%
• Sea Terror Make the Redfish hide in a Porifera. 39%
• Fisher Kill 1250 fish. 39%
• Spectator Get into the cartoons cave and watch any of them. 36%
• Dinohunter Kill 1500 dinosaurs. 34%
• Survivalist Survive on a map with whirlpools and predator worms. 32%
• Fork Master Kill the meatball monster. 31%
• Hominid Learn any skill. 28%
• Beetlequisher Kill the Giant Cockroach. 25%
• Birdcatcher Kill 2750 birds. 23%
• Worminator Defeat the Giant Woolly Worm. 23%
• Engineer Learn how to build large barricades out of dinosaur bones. 23%
• Homo Habilis Learn any 25 skills. 21%
• Ambassador Meet another intelligent race. 20%
• Rival Kill 2250 primates. 19%
• Muscle Slayer Defeat Musclesaurus. 18%
• Paladin Fight off enemies enslaved by Frostmourne. 17%
• Homo Erectus Learn all skills in any of the four skill trees. 14%
• Tester Survive on the map by fulfilling the condition on the clay tablet. 14%
• Earthling Meet the sky people. 13%
• Ufologist Use the magic of the sky people. 12%
• Homo Sapiens Accumulate 99 skill points. 11%
• Specialist Upgrade any defender to the maximum. 11%
• Man in Black Find a broken flying saucer. 11%
• Trapper Learn all types of traps. 11%
• Chief Unlock Chief mode and survive the first mission. 11%
• Archaeolord Defeat Archaeopteryx. 10%
• Great Chief Survive any 9 maps in Chief mode. 7.8%
• True Survivor Survive on 11 maps by fulfilling the condition on the clay tablet. 7.2%
• Scrooge Learn all the skills that reduce the cost of defenders. 6.4%
• Madman Unlock Madman mode and kill the Giant Octopus in it. 5.6%
• Shaman Make a voodoo mage create a meat golem. 4.6%
• Mason Master the technology of stone laying. 4.5%
• Animal Trainer Have a pet fish, a bird, and a dinosaur on one map. 3.2%