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2024 · Wargame · Real Time Tactics · Sandbox

How long isEmpire of the Ants?

5.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 2.5 hours and 14 hours

Almost never seen through: only 4.7% of the players who launched it hold its last story achievement.

Does Empire of the Ants hold up?

Holds steady

Do the first two hours of Empire of the Ants tell you?

In the first two hours59%recommend it

After that80%recommend it

13 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 7 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2.5 hours and 14 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,200 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 76% and 81% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

20% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 59% of those recommend it. After the window, 80% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 66% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4 hours in.

When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 5.5 hours on Tuesday, October 27.

Half of its reviewers had played between 2.5 and 14 hours: Oct 24 to Nov 4 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Empire of the Ants?

The filter

A new enemy

35 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Traveling wide and far and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. AwakeningReach "Bel-o-kan"−1189% hold it
  3. Traveling wide and farReach "Ta-yu-kan"−3554% hold it
  4. A new enemyReach "Niziu-ni-kan"Filtered −3519% hold it
  5. On the edge of the WorldReach "Chli-pou-kan"−811% hold it
  6. Where it all beganReturn to "Bel-o-kan"−56.3% hold it
  7. A story to be toldComplete the story−14.7% hold it
How this is counted

89% of the players who launched Empire of the Ants hold Awakening, its first story achievement on Steam, and 4.7% hold A story to be told, its last. The steepest drop comes between Traveling wide and far (54%) and A new enemy (19%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Empire of the Ants worth it?

Is Empire of the Ants worth it? Mostly.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical wargame gives 5.2× the hours for the money

  • Liked

    80% recommend it after the refund windowmost wargames: 86%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $39.99, the typical player's 5.5 hours come to $7.27 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 80% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $7.27 an hour, Empire of the Ants costs more per hour than 103 of 104 wargames here: the typical one of 104 wargames here charges $1.41.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (wargames) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Empire of the Ants?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Empire of the Ants, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Empire of the Ants would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Empire of the Ants

All 30 games like Empire of the Ants, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.