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2021 · Turn-Based Tactics · Hex Grid · Wargame

How long isUrtuk: The Desolation?

by David Kaleta

21 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6.5 hours and 55 hours

Rarely seen through: only 7.1% of the players who launched it hold its last story achievement.

Does Urtuk: The Desolation hold up?

Grows on people

Grows on you seal

83% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% at 100–200 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of Urtuk: The Desolation tell you?

In the first two hours63%recommend it

After that90%recommend it

14 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 6 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 21 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6.5 hours and 55 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,570 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 83% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% at 100–200 hours.

10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 63% of those recommend it. After the window, 90% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 71% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

3weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 21 hours on Tuesday, November 10.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6.5 and 55 hours: Oct 27 to Dec 14 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 Urtuk: The Desolation?

The filter

The Lands of The Forsaken

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

They hold Swamps and Marshes and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Swamps and MarshesReach the Swamps−7426% hold it
  3. The Lands of The ForsakenReach the UndergroundFiltered −1115% hold it
  4. The Fallen EmpireReach the Ruins−411% hold it
  5. WinnerWin the game−47.1% hold it
How this is counted

26% of the players who launched Urtuk: The Desolation hold Swamps and Marshes, its first story achievement on Steam, and 7.1% hold Winner, its last. The steepest drop comes between Swamps and Marshes (26%) and The Lands of The Forsaken (15%).

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 Urtuk: The Desolation worth it?

Is Urtuk: The Desolation worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    2.5× the hours of a typical strategy game, for the same money

  • Loved

    90% recommend it after the refund windowmost strategy games: 88%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $13.99, the typical player's 21 hours come to 67¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 67¢ an hour, Urtuk: The Desolation is cheaper per hour than 839 of 968 strategy games here: the typical one of 968 strategy games here charges $1.67, so the same $13.99 buys 2.5× the hours.

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 (strategy games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, 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 Urtuk: The Desolation?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Urtuk: The Desolation, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Urtuk: The Desolation 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.

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How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.