Strategy
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 30% of players who started
Started playing 90% of owners
Steam reviews 71% positive of 23,503
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (64%); after 20h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 92% of games we track.
- 30% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Phoenix Down” (Complete the Gray Phoenix Investigation): only 45% of starters get there.
- 90% 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 23,684 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 24.3h for positive, 5.4h 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 (89.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Phoenix Down Complete the Gray Phoenix Investigation. Most players quit here 45% −55
- Child’s Play Complete the Progeny Investigation. 41% −3
- Sacred Foiled Complete the Sacred Coil Investigation. 41% −1
- Heroes of City 31 Win the campaign. 30% −11
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (40)
story milestone ending side
- City on Fire Complete the tutorial. 100%
- All Hands On Deck Have 8 Agents in the squad in a single campaign. 49%
- Superior Firepower Equip an Epic Weapon. 49%
- Use the Large Cuffs Capture a Praetorian. 46%
- Caged Sword Capture a Ronin. 45%
- Phoenix Down Complete the Gray Phoenix Investigation. 45%
- Reinforced Steel Replace an Agent mid-mission with an Android. 45%
- Bottled Lightning Capture a Sorcerer. 44%
- Field Commander Unlock all Field Abilities. 43%
- Child’s Play Complete the Progeny Investigation. 41%
- Sacred Foiled Complete the Sacred Coil Investigation. 41%
- Anger Management Kill an enemy with Axiom while Berserk. 37%
- …Makes the Dream Work Complete an objective with an action from Terminal’s Cooperation. 36%
- Book Smart Complete all of one Agent’s class training. 35%
- Hammer And Tongs Complete 20 Assembly Projects in a single campaign. 31%
- Heroes of City 31 Win the campaign. 30%
- Brawler Use Zephyr to hit 3 or more enemies with one use of Crowd Control. 25%
- Ducks in a Row Use Blueblood to hit 3 or more enemies with one Phase Lance shot. 23%
- Extra Hours As Godmother, activate Overtime and down an enemy on both turns. 22%
- I’ll Let Myself In Use every type of Breach point. 21%
- Pacifist Route Complete a mission without killing a single enemy. 21%
- Friendly Neighborhood XCOM Have Rank 3 Field Teams in all nine districts. 20%
- Chain Reaction Use Claymore to detonate a Shrapnel Bomb with another explosive. 19%
- A New Look Launch a mission with no human agents in the squad. 17%
- Impregnable Have Kinetic Armor on all 4 squad members at once. 16%
- Mind Nuke Use Verge to do 10 or more damage with one Mindflay. 16%
- Army of One Complete a mission with only one Agent left standing. 15%
- Machine Learning Fully upgrade an Android. 15%
- Watch your Step Use Torque to Tongue Pull an enemy into poison. 15%
- Kill Switch Hack an enemy Android with Patchwork and trigger Self-Destruct. 14%
- Chimera Unleashed Use every Agent in at least one mission. 12%
- …and Clear Clear an entire encounter during the Breach turn. 9.1%
- Overqualified Reach max rank with all Agents in a single campaign. 8.4%
- No Stone Left Unturned Complete every Spec Op at least once in a single campaign. 4.0%
- Thank You For Your Business Buy 20 unique Scavenger Market items in a single campaign. 3.6%
- Daisy Chain Relocate the same unit with Shelter and his ghost in one turn. 2.8%
- Impossible Dream Win the campaign on Impossible difficulty. 2.6%
- Need a Lift Move a VIP with Shelter’s Relocate and Torque’s Tongue Pull. 2.6%
- Up Close and Personal Complete an encounter by only dealing damage with melee attacks. 2.1%
- Every Timeline Complete all versions of each Faction’s Takedown mission over multiple campaigns. 1.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.