Iron Marines

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 1,926 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 14.2h for positive, 7.6h 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 (91.9% 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 (76)

• Let the Rookie Win Complete Mission 1. We knew you could do it. 100%
• Try me Click their portrait repeatedly to annoy a Hero during a Mission. They like it! 99%
• Can't Stop the Signal Complete Mission 2 with the COMSAT taking no damage at all. 90%
• Researcher Buy any Upgrade from our wonderful selection. 89%
• God of War Kill 500 enemies. 83%
• Potato Battery Extract 1000 Etherwatts. 80%
• No one Left Behind Rescue all 4 wounded soldiers in Mission 3. 79%
• Bug Hunter Destroy 11 Fell Refineries. 66%
• The Force Awakens Wake 21 Grimcrushers from their stone slumber. 61%
• Heroes Save the Ambassadress, save the world! 61%
• Not Enough Energy Kill 17 Etherleeches before they drain your Etherwatts storage. 60%
• Killer Instinct Kill 20 or more enemies in less than 3 secs. 58%
• Worms Armageddon Destroy 8 Worm Cannons in a single Mission. 56%
• Men of Destiny Kill a total of 300 enemies in Emergency Frequency Spec Op. 56%
• Left 4 Dead Kill 4000 enemies. 52%
• Batteries not Included Spend more than 1987 Etherwatts in a single Mission. 52%
• Cloudy with a Chance of... Rain down a total of 100 Dropguns to the battlefield. 52%
• Discovery Earn more than 5000 Techpoints. 48%
• Emerald Dawn Complete the Spec Op In Brightest Day with both Power Cores active. 48%
• Grab The Schwartz Extract 10000 Etherwatts. 46%
• Loose Cannon Attack 1000 times with Rocket Towers. 46%
• Forerunner Kill 343 Peripheroids. 43%
• Assembly this! Destroy the same Assembly Center 3 times. 43%
• Defense Budget Earn a total of 5000 Credits. 42%
• Look at you, hacker Capture all 3 Core Processor's switches without ever losing any of them in Mission 11. 40%
• Feel the Force Defeat the Fell Bishop in the Spec Op A New Despair in less than 30 seconds. 40%
• Supersoldier Have a Hero reach max level. 39%
• Guardians of the Galaxy Kill 7000 enemies. 39%
• Jellyfish Jam Target to shoot 9 alien jellyfish until they explode. 37%
• No one bites the dust Beat Spec Op Into Darkness with all survivors. 37%
• Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Help the space monkeys get the secrets of the Monolith in Mission 4. 36%
• Go for the Eyes! Complete Mission 9 without losing a single Squad, like a miniature giant space hamster could do. 33%
• Jaeger Maelstrom Complete a Mission with at least one Brawler, one Shellstorm and one Firewalker at the same time. 33%
• Pwned Kill a Spammer before it spawns any Inductors. 32%
• Heart of the Swarm Defeat the Fell Tyrant in Normal or Veteran difficulty. 32%
• Galaxian Destroy a total of 46 Raad Carriers. 29%
• Once a Marine, Always a Marine Have 4 Ranger Squads fighting at the same time in a single Mission. 28%
• Helldiver Deploy any Hero to battle 100 times. 28%
• Brotherhood of Steel Complete Mission 4 only deploying Mechas. 27%
• Band of Brothers Teleport all colonists to safety in Spec Op Darkest Hour. 26%
• Night of the Robot Dead Kill a total of 150 Jackbots resurrected by Oculus. 25%
• Full Battle Rattle Spend 10000 Credits at the Arsenal. 25%
• Hard Reset Defeat Mr: Rob070 in Normal or Veteran difficulty. 23%
• Kingdom Rush Build a total of 149 Towers. 22%
• Scrambled Eggs Beat the Spec Op 'The Colour out of Space' having destroyed all Bishop cocoons in the process. 22%
• Expert Eugoogoolizer Have 100 of your Squads die. They will be missed. 21%
• Interstellar Defeat Nexus, the Raad Vanguard Master, in Normal or Veteran difficulty. 20%
• Flawless Victory Complete Mission 7 without losing any Squads. 20%
• Gwyn Kill 50 Alpha Fenrirs during a single try of stage 18. 20%
• Life, the Universe, and Everything Search for the ultimate answer buying 42 different upgrades. 20%
• Resistance is not Futile Save all base colonists in MIssion 5. 19%
• I Feel Confused Help the broken Protocol Droid on Mission 10. 18%
• Beam me Up, Scotty! Teleport the five missing Captains scattered in Sagan-1. 17%
• Three of a Kind Have 3 Heroes reach maximum level. 17%
• The Arrival Deploy 77 Empyrean squads onto the battlefield. 16%
• Little Green Men Free the cute alien from The Claw's grasp in MIssion 12. 16%
• Portal Kombat Destroy 30 Raad Portals before any enemy can enter our galaxy through any of them. 15%
• I'm the Doctor Help the Doctor travel through the timey wimey stuff in Mission 11. 15%
• Winter Soldier Recruit a total of 41 fighters in the Ga’r Warhalls. 15%
• Not a scratch Complete Spec Op Laser Tag with the prototype Dropgun unharmed. 15%
• Snowpiercer Destroy a total of 72 Ice Blocks. 15%
• .RAR Make the Compactors kill 50 Peripheroids. 14%
• Aaha! Help the frozen, weird-looking alien squirrel get his preferred food on stage 18. 13%
• Turtle Power Help Sandro unlocks his cowabungous inner self. 12%
• Immensity Mitten Find the 6 Immensity Stones to awake the awesome Mitten of Tranos. 12%
• They Killed Renny! Find the 4 mischievous kids lost in the snow on stage 19. 12%
• Team 17 Have the worm throw 5 Holy Hand grenades at the enemies' faces. 12%
• Fast and Furious Destroy the Fell Bishop's cocoon in less than 4 minutes. 11%
• Smile and Wave Help the squad of funny penguins achieve maximum coolness on stage 15. 11%
• Real Steel Have at least 4 Brawlers active at the same time in Mission 8. 10%
• Day of the Tentacle Defeat 50 tentacles in Mission 13. 8.9%
• Speed Racer Win Spec Op 'The Last of Them' in less than 7 minutes. 6.7%
• Impressive, Most Impressive Defeat the Fell Tyrant in Impossible difficulty. 6.3%
• Rage against the Machine Defeat Mr: Rob070 in Impossible difficulty. 5.2%
• Still Alive Defeat Nexus, the Raad Vanguard Master, in Impossible difficulty. 4.0%
• Maximum Effort Complete all Campaign Missions in Impossible difficulty. 3.7%