ActionRPG
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 15% of players who started
Started playing 89% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 13,021
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (40%); after 20h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- 15% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Reborn” and “No Destiny, All Determination”: from 100% to 39% of starters.
- 89% 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 13,052 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 51.4h for positive, 22.2h 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 (88.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Reborn You were reborn from the Well of Souls, and have escaped Allestar Tower. 100%
- No Destiny, All Determination You have met High King Titarion, and have been confronted with the true scope of your powers. Most players quit here 39% −61
- Turning the Tide A ruse has baited Octienne into betraying the necromantic nature of his experiments. 24% −15
- Hero of Mel Senshir You have defeated the great Balor. 23% −1
- Destiny Defiant You have defeated Tirnoch, and defied destiny. 15% −8
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (61)
story milestone ending side
- Reborn You were reborn from the Well of Souls, and have escaped Allestar Tower. 100%
- Good as New Repaired a piece of equipment. 72%
- Would You Like Fries with that? Landed 100 complete attack chains. 64%
- Cleaning Up the Streets Killed 50 bandits. 55%
- It Didn't Explode! Made a stable potion by experimenting. 52%
- Shop Class Crafted a piece of equipment with Blacksmithing. 51%
- Reckoning Rampage Killed 5 enemies with a single Fateshift. 50%
- Some of This, Some of That Unlocked a two-class hybrid destiny. 44%
- The Great Detective Detected 25 hidden things. 43%
- No Destiny, All Determination You have met High King Titarion, and have been confronted with the true scope of your powers. 39%
- Blades of Glory Acquired 10 Unique weapons (Special Delivery weapons excluded). 38%
- Breaking and Entering Picked 50 locks. 36%
- Big Spender Spent 200,000 gold. 33%
- Shock and Awe Killed 100 enemies with abilities. 32%
- House of Ballads Completed the House of Ballads storyline quests. 30%
- Diamond in the Rough Crafted a Pristine Shard. 29%
- Niskaru Slayer Killed 25 Niskaru. 29%
- Five Finger Discount Stole and fenced an item. 27%
- Juggler Landed 5 consecutive hits on a launched enemy. 27%
- Jack of All Trades Unlocked a Jack of All Trades destiny. 26%
- Turning the Tide A ruse has baited Octienne into betraying the necromantic nature of his experiments. 24%
- Master of the Forge Crafted an item that uses all 5 forge component slots. 24%
- Bull in a China Shop Smashed 1,000 objects. 23%
- Hero of Mel Senshir You have defeated the great Balor. 23%
- They Never Saw it Coming Backstabbed 20 enemies. 21%
- The Harder They Fall You’ve bested Kahrunk without killing his attendants. 18%
- Beam Me Up Used the Henge to enter Idylla. 18%
- Warsworn Completed the Warsworn storyline quests. 18%
- Cartographer Discovered 100 locations. 16%
- Romancing the Gem Crafted an Epic Gem. 15%
- Streaker You spoke to someone while not wearing clothes. 15%
- Destiny Defiant You have defeated Tirnoch, and defied destiny. 15%
- We Built this City You helped the Kollossae in the Teeth of Naros break free from their fate. 14%
- It is Your Destiny Unlocked a top tier destiny. 14%
- Open Sesame Dispelled 50 wards. 13%
- Travelers Completed the Travelers storyline quests. 13%
- House of Sorrows Completed the House of Sorrows storyline quests. 12%
- Crime Doesn't Pay Spent over 10,000 gold in crime bribes. 12%
- Scholia Arcana Completed the Scholia Arcana storyline quests. 12%
- And Then There Were None Killed 500 enemies with abilities. 12%
- Elixir of Fate Made a potion with the Essence of Fate. 11%
- Manic Pixie Dream Elf Wooed Rast Brattigan. 11%
- Murder Most Fowl Killed 50 Pteryx. 9.9%
- Keep on Rising Gravehal Keep has been fully restored. 9.0%
- Jailbreak You broke out of jail. 8.6%
- Trapper Killed 25 enemies with traps. 8.1%
- Bookworm Read 50 books. 8.1%
- Foiled Again! Parried 100 times. 7.1%
- Mistaken Identity You’ve found a strange Almain who has been hiding in the sewers of Idylla. 7.0%
- Riposte! Landed 25 special attacks out of Parry. 7.0%
- A Wink and a Smile You have succeeded at 50 Persuasion attempts. 6.8%
- Out of Your League Killed an enemy 4 levels higher than you. 6.0%
- I Regret Nothing Fell to your death from the Idylla Concourse. 5.2%
- Where's My Wallet? Pickpocketed 20 times. 3.7%
- Loremaster Discovered all Lorestones. 3.6%
- Destiny Dominated You have won the game on Hard difficulty. 2.6%
- Give Her a Hand Found Aubrey Gilcrest's severed hand. 2.0%
- Green Thumb Harvested 10 of each type of reagent. 2.0%
- A Life of Crime Got caught committing a crime 25 times. 1.9%
- Exterminator Killed 50 Scavs. 1.6%
- Message in a Bottle Located all eight message bottles in Gallows End. 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.