Attack of the Earthlings

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 456 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 10.4h for positive, 3.4h 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 (87% 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 (37)

• Group Hug! Successfully pull off a Group Attack 100%
• Gettin' Started Complete Serial Drillers From Outer Space 71%
• A Spanner In The Works Complete It's My Birthday And I'll Die If I Want To 43%
• Shave The Gorilla Kill the Overseer in It's My Birthday And I'll Die If I Want To 40%
• Breaking and Entering Complete Dead End Job 33%
• Breaker of Chains Release the Rogue Motivatio in Dead End Job 32%
• Refund Improbe-able Complete Mission : Improbe-able 28%
• Haemogonna Destroy the Blood Samples in Mission : Improbe-able 28%
• Buffet! Consume 500 Biomass (over any number of playthroughs) 26%
• Executive Dinner Complete The Fast And The Luxurious 25%
• Mother Gear Swarmer; Claws of the Matriarch Free The Matriarch in Mission : Improbe-able without losing a grunt 23%
• Cutting The Line Kill all the Executives in The Fast And The Luxurious 21%
• Blood Money Complete I Purge You To Reconsider 20%
• Speed Runner Complete a mission 10 turns below the target par time 20%
• Suicide Squad Kill another enemy with the Banshee Death Explosion 19%
• You're Fired! Complete the Game 19%
• High Turnover Kill 100 Galactoil Employees (over any number of playthroughs) 17%
• Leave No Survivors Kill both Barry and Paul in I Purge You To Reconsider 14%
• Know Any Knock Knock Jokes? Kill a unit through a wall with Ground Pound 14%
• Love Hurts "As Designed" 10%
• Independent Thinker No one tells Carlos what to do 9.5%
• Think You're A Big Shot Do Ya? Never question John's sense of duty 7.4%
• Hook, Line and Sinker Lure an enemy onto a Trap 6.6%
• Aced It! Complete Dead End Job without losing any units 5.9%
• Say Hello To Your Little Friend Damage Paul with his own Mines 5.6%
• Efficient Killer Kill 5 enemies with one group attack 5.5%
• Speed Bump Lure an Enemy into the path of Dickinham's mech in Mission 07 5.3%
• Galactoil Drift Complete Dead End Job in 21 turns or fewer 4.5%
• Now You're Just Showing Off Deal 200+ DMG with one group attack to a single unit 3.9%
• Marathon Man Move 18 tiles with a single unit in 1 turn 3.2%
• Mined Games That'll fool 'em 2.5%
• The Fast & The Furious Complete Serial Drillers From Outer Space in 11 turns or fewer 2.4%
• That's Rich You get what you pay for 2.4%
• I Don't Know What I Expected One day this will work 2.4%
• You Absolute Madman Complete The Fall Of The House Of Pecker without killing a single enemy 2.3%
• You're Pretty Good At This Complete The Fall Of The House Of Pecker without any Mutagen Upgrades 2.2%
• I Commend Your Enthusiasm But... ... You really didn't achieve much 2.1%