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Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 14% of players who started
Started playing 10% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 4,451
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 7h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- At least 14% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 10% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 4,482 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 21.6h for positive, 28h 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 (10.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Return of the Dragon Finish the Dragon Kenji’s journey. ≥14% −86
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (90)
story milestone ending side
- Mmm, Rice. Collect a total of 10,000 bags of rice. 100%
- Lord of the Water Collect a total of 10,000 buckets of water. 94%
- Farming Simulator Collect 7,777 rice in a single game. 89%
- Landscaping for Beginners Destroy all trees on a single map. 78%
- Quite Thirsty Collect 7,777 water in a single game. 77%
- Family Have all the clan’s Zen masters summoned and alive at the same time. 48%
- Serve the Clan Reclaim the Lowlands. 40%
- Path of the Dragon Join the peasants and beat the bandits as Kenji. 39%
- Overheal Have a geisha heal a unit with more than 95% of health. 36%
- One vs Many Win a 1 vs 7 AI skirmish game. 32%
- I Am Enough Finish a campaign level without training a single combat unit or spawning any extra peasants. 30%
- I Don't Want This Finish a campaign level without destroying a single enemy building. 28%
- The House of Tea Defend the Swan’s Pool. 26%
- Cantet Mortem Get a kill with a Channeler’s Crow. 25%
- We Lead Ourselves Win a skirmish match without building a Keep or using Zen Masters. 24%
- Smoking Hot Have 10 buildings fall to fire damage in a single game. 22%
- Last Chance Heal a unit with 1HP. 21%
- The Story is Over Lose a campaign level. 18%
- Path of the Serpent Join the bandits and raid the peasants as Kenji. 18%
- In Power We Trust Win a game with every single combat unit having learned a Battle Gear. 18%
- The Old Relic Find the White Wolf’s skull. 16%
- Our Home Defend the Serpentholm in the orb search. 16%
- Jack of All Trades Win a game with each clan. 15%
- Smell of Freedom Escape the mines. 14%
- Fading Corruption Defeat Serpent Orb Empowered Zymeth. 14%
- Return of the Dragon Finish the Dragon Kenji’s journey. 14%
- Complete Knowledge Have all Techniques learned in a single game. 14%
- Rough Shield Find a shalery and allow Grayback to forge his armor. 13%
- Eye of the Eagle Recruit Arah to join your clan. 12%
- The Dragon Reach the Dragon at the top of Mount Spire. 12%
- Small But Strong Win a game without ever training or having anything else besides Tier 1 units. 12%
- Small Family Win a game without having more than 1 peasant hut. 12%
- King of the Hill Recruit Garrin to join your clan. 11%
- For Otomo Avenge Otomo by killing Shinja. 11%
- Riverside Betrayer Recruit Vetkin to join your clan. 9.6%
- Speedrunner Beat a late story mode level in less than 5 minutes. 8.7%
- An Ally in Need Meet and recruit Wildeye. 8.7%
- Druidess of the Forest Defeat Utara and save Gaihla. 8.7%
- Complete Balance Recruit Tao to join your clan. 8.7%
- Brothers in Arms Recruit monks to join your clan. 8.7%
- Brothers in the Dark Recruit ninjas to join your clan. 8.7%
- Undead Army Reach The Necromancer at the top of mount Spire. 8.7%
- Give the Power Back Beat Grayback trying to use orb to go home. 8.7%
- I'm Not Afraid of the Dark Finish the Serpent Kenji’s journey. 8.7%
- Hungry Eat 5 peasants in 5 seconds as Lotus clan. 8.7%
- The Last Stand Unlock the path to Yvaine’s Keep. 7.7%
- Freedom! Defeat Yvaine. 7.7%
- Fast as a Rabbit Defeat both Koril and Issyl without allowing them to take over each other’s forces. 7.7%
- My Home Take over the Serpentholm in the orb search. 7.7%
- Free the Prisonerss Find and free all 10 prisoners in the mines. 6.7%
- A Great Kingdom Reach the building number cap. 5.8%
- Cries of Nature Recruit Gaihla to join your clan. 5.8%
- Recieved a Sample Let Budo sample a geisha to join you clan. 5.8%
- Lady of the Swamps Recruit Utara to join your clan. 5.8%
- There's Enough Space Recruit Koril to join your clan. 5.8%
- The Purge Defeat the betrayer Otomo. 5.8%
- No God to Praise Recruit monks to join your clan. 5.8%
- Not Too Big Never have more than 15 population in a single game. 5.8%
- An Unfortunate Experiment Find the Shale Lord and let him reveal Soban’s lab. 4.8%
- Slow as a Turtle Defeat Koril or Issyl and allow them to take over the other one’s forces. 4.8%
- Unstoppable Recruit ninjas to join your clan. 4.8%
- Don’t Step Any Closer Deal only ranged damage (except for peasants) in a single game. 4.8%
- Attack? With This? Win a game without training a single combat unit. 4.8%
- Loremaster Finish all 3 campaign journeys. 3.8%
- A Defenseless Prince Destroy Taro’s guards. 3.8%
- The Explorer Finish a campaign level on all mainland areas at least once. 3.8%
- What Else Should I Do? Recruit Tao to join your clan. 3.8%
- Heal and Kneel Win a game with only peasants or geishas trained throughout the game. 3.8%
- Genius Mind Recruit Soban to join your clan. 2.9%
- Lone Wolf Finish any Kenji Journey without recruiting any extra Zen Masters. 2.9%
- I Did Something Else Recruit the monks without recruiting Tao. 2.9%
- All I See is War Reach the population cap and have ALL units trained into combat units. 2.9%
- Dragon’s Wrath Use the Dragon’s Monument power 5 times in a single game. 2.9%
- Mining Expedition Make at least 15 ranged units with explosive damage type attack the ground at once. 1.9%
- Stagnation Have an enemy have 10+ combat units, but no peasants or peasant huts. 1.9%
- Cavalry Have 30 combat units on horses at the same time. 1.9%
- Soulmates Kill 3 or more peasants with one Samurai Harakiri. 1.9%
- Every Warrior Has a Name Win a game with all different types of units on the map. 1.9%
- Saturated Have 3,000 rice and 3,000 water stocked up at once. 1.0%
- Hard Grind Beat an entire story journey in one sitting without saving once. 1.0%
- Darkness Consumes Do not destroy a single building after Nightvol appears and make “The Dark” units destroy all leftover enemy buildings on the map. 1.0%
- Wrong Focus Free the Shale Lord and destroy all peasant huts and peasants before destroying the pillar. 1.0%
- Shortcut Find a way to reach and destroy Yvaine’s Keep without opening a single gate. 1.0%
- I Come Only With Business Destroy only the Wolf mines without destroying any other building at the Wolf mines area. 1.0%
- Stand Strong Defend Swan’s Pool without it going below 90% HP. 1.0%
- I'm Pro Win a game on Freedom, Valley of Death and Wheeler Canyon maps. 1.0%
- Free of Corruption! Have a full population cap full of Master Warlocks as Lotus clan. 1.0%
- Raid and Pillage Have a full population cap of only bandits and raiders as Serpent clan. 1.0%
- True Belief Have a full population cap of only dragon warriors as Dragon clan. 1.0%
- Essence of Wolf Have a 90% of population cap of Werewolves as Wolf clan. 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.