How Long Is STAR WARS Zero Company? Playtime and Completion Data

The playtime numbers

Measured across a sample of 500 Steam reviews, using the playtime each reviewer had logged at the moment they posted, plus the total each of those accounts has now.

The gap between the two figures is the informative part. Reviewers post at a median of 7.3 hours but their accounts now sit at a median of 20.0 hours, which means the typical reviewer wrote a verdict roughly a third of the way through their eventual run and then kept playing. A 7-hour median is a statement about when people form an opinion, not about how long the game is.

Where reviewer hours cluster

The same sample, grouped into bands. What stands out is how flat it is: five of the six bands sit between 18% and 22%, which is unusual. Most released games produce a clear peak where the campaign ends.

A flat distribution means players are stopping at every stage rather than converging on a finish line. That is consistent with a long tactics campaign that people put down and return to, and it is also consistent with the 19.4% who reviewed inside the two-hour refund window.

Only 5.1% of owners have beaten the campaign

Steam publishes a global unlock rate for every achievement, measured across all owners rather than only reviewers. Zero Company has five completion achievements and every one of them states its requirement openly, so this is the most reliable completion data available for the game.

Those five figures also settle something the rest of this site has deliberately left open. The achievement descriptions name the difficulty settings directly: Story, Normal, Hard and Expert, plus a separate Beskar Mode that stacks on top of Expert. That is confirmed wording from Valve's achievement page, not an inference from a menu screenshot.

The headline number needs its context stated plainly: 5.1% is a six-day figure. The game released on August 27, 2026 and these rates were read on September 2. A campaign that only one owner in twenty has finished in the first week is a long campaign, but the rate will keep climbing for months.

Which difficulty finishers actually pick

Because each achievement covers its own difficulty and everything above it, the rates can be read as a preference split. Of the 5.1% who have finished, 4.3% did it on Normal or above — so roughly five in six finishers are not using Story mode. Hard drops to 1.2%, about a quarter of all finishers, and Expert is 0.3%.

The practical reading for a first campaign: Normal is the mainstream finishing difficulty, and the 0.8 point gap between Story and Normal suggests Story is used by a small minority. If you are choosing a setting for a first run, Normal is what most people who see the credits are playing on. The difficulty guide covers the system itself.

Where the campaign loses players

The top of the funnel is crowded and the requirements there are published, so it is easy to read: 88.7% of owners have applied a Focus Point, 83.2% have recruited an Operator, 77.5% have unlocked a Zone Reward. Almost everyone reaches the point where the game's systems are introduced.

The steepest fall in the whole list sits between two achievements whose descriptions Valve hides — one at 46.6% and the next at 33.2%, a drop of 13.4 points with nothing between them. What they require is not published and this page does not guess. What the gap says is that somewhere around the point where half the player base has stopped, a single step sheds one owner in eight. A second large step follows at 57.2% to 46.6%.

Two more published rates fill in the picture of the early campaign, and they are the funniest data on the page: 72.5% have missed a shot with a 90% or better hit chance, and 23.1% have landed one at 10% or lower. Whatever else players are doing in the first few hours, they are learning the same lesson about percentages that every tactics game teaches.

• Applied a Focus Point: 88.7% of owners.
• Recruited an Operator: 83.2%.
• Customized a member of Zero Company: 79.8%.
• Unlocked a Zone Reward: 77.5%.
• Defeated 10 enemies from higher elevation: 64.2%.
• Knocked an enemy out of the combat space: 57.2%.

What makes a run longer

Several achievements state a requirement that can only be met by playing more, and their rates show how far outside the normal run those goals sit. None of them is needed to finish the campaign, but each one is a reason a playthrough stretches well past 30 hours.

The permadeath figure is the one worth planning around. 13.6% of owners have lost a squad member, which means the great majority of players either avoid casualties or reload rather than accept them. A run where you accept losses is a different, and usually longer, run because replacements start from scratch.

• Lost a member of Zero Company: 13.6% of owners.
• Equipped 4 Weapon Mods to a single weapon: 1.9%. Fully kitting one weapon is rarer than beating the game.
• Recruited 20 Operators in a single campaign: 0.6%.
• Reached a Very High Bond between two custom Operators: 0.4%.
• Completed a mission using 4 Astromechs: 0.2%.
• Unlocked all the Zone Rewards: 0.2%.
• Completed 50 Optional Missions: 0.1%.
• Completed every other achievement: 0.1%.

Realistic time estimates

Putting the two datasets together, and labelling the inference as an inference rather than a measurement:

The reasoning behind the main-campaign range: only about 20% of reviewers are past 20 hours, and only 5.1% of owners have finished in six days. Both facts point the same way, which is that the credits sit somewhere beyond the 20-hour mark for most people rather than at it. That is a bound, not a stopwatch reading, and it will tighten as completion rates rise.

One caveat before quoting the 5.1% anywhere: a six-day completion rate measures how long the game is and how recently it launched, mixed together. It is not a verdict on whether players want to finish it. Reviews sit at Mostly Positive, with 9,489 of 12,004 positive, or 79.0%.

• Main campaign, playing normally: roughly 30 hours. Inferred from the 20.0-hour median total and the 5.1% six-day completion rate, not measured.
• Rushing the campaign on Story: meaningfully less, but the 0.8 point Story-to-Normal gap means very few players are doing this.
• Campaign plus most optional missions: 40 hours and up. The 90th percentile of total playtime is 38.1 hours.
• Full completion: far beyond that. Six separate achievements sit at 0.1%, and only 2.2% of reviewers have logged more than 40 hours.

What these numbers are not

Stated plainly, because a length estimate is only as good as its caveats:

• Reviewers are not all players. People who post reviews skew toward people who played more, so the true median across every owner is lower than the figures above.
• Playtime is wall-clock, not progress. It includes menus, reloads, the Den, and idling.
• Achievement rates count owners, not finishers, and include accounts that launched the game once.
• No official campaign length exists. Bit Reactor and EA have not published one, and this page does not have access to one.
• Percentages and playtime were read on September 2, 2026, six days after the August 27 release. Every completion figure on this page will be higher next month.
• Not established here: the number of missions or zones, the length of any individual mission, or how much of the campaign is optional.