ActionAdventureIndie
ScourgeBringer
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Reach the ending at least 3% of players who started
Started playing 81% of owners
Steam reviews 86% positive of 3,293
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (24%); after 4h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- At least 3% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “The Entangled Ingress”: only 56% of starters get there.
- 81% 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 3,338 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 286 reviews: 7h for positive, 2.7h 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 (80.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Entangled Ingress Beat a Judge of The Entangled Ingress Most players quit here 56% −44
- The Still Bastion Beat a Judge of The Still Bastion 32% −24
- The Wasted Pit Beat a Judge of The Wasted Pit 20% −13
- The Living Walls Beat the Judge of The Living Walls 14% −6
- The Old World Beat the Judge of The Old World 10% −3
- The Seeker of Power Beat the one who is consumed by Chaos 4% −6
- The Beyond Beat the Judge of The Beyond 4%
- The new Vessel Become the new Pilot ≥3%
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 (42)
story milestone ending side
- First blood Clear your first fight 100%
- The Gift of Blood Pick your first Gift of Blood 86%
- Cucumber-free Make the world cucumber-free 78%
- Floor is lava Clear a room with at least 3 enemies in it without touching the ground 69%
- Explorer Fully explore a Realm 67%
- Bootloader Find the NEXUS computer 61%
- Bullseye Beat an enemy by throwing back a bullet at it with the Smash 59%
- The Entangled Ingress Beat a Judge of The Entangled Ingress 56%
- Treasure hunter Find a secret room 56%
- Acorn Fully unlock a branch of the skill tree 44%
- New challenger Successfully finish your first challenge room 44%
- Showtime! Build a x2 combo 42%
- Strike! Stun an enemy by throwing another enemy on it with the Smash 39%
- Oakling Fully unlock two branches of the skill tree 36%
- The Still Bastion Beat a Judge of The Still Bastion 32%
- Sold-out Get all items from Greed 30%
- Young oak Fully unlock three branches of the skill tree 30%
- Strong oak Fully unlock four branches of the skill tree 23%
- The Wasted Pit Beat a Judge of The Wasted Pit 20%
- The way of the kunoichi Beat a Judge without getting hit 18%
- Majestic oak Fully unlock five branches of the skill tree 18%
- Centenary Oak Fully unlock six branches of the skill tree 15%
- Capped Max out your HP to 20 14%
- The Living Walls Beat the Judge of The Living Walls 14%
- The Old World Beat the Judge of The Old World 10%
- Ultra combo Build a x3 combo with the Ultra Combo Altar 8.2%
- The Chiming Tree Fully unlock all branches of the skill tree 8.1%
- The Judgment Accept Kriterion's Judgment 7.8%
- The colonel was wrong Find all logs of military missions 7.6%
- Path of the enlightenment Find all logs of the lost ones 7.3%
- A quest for knowledge Find all logs of Garo's expedition 7.2%
- The way of the warrior Complete a Realm without getting hit 4.7%
- The Truth Read all the steles 3.8%
- The Seeker of Power Beat the one who is consumed by Chaos 3.7%
- The Beyond Beat the Judge of The Beyond 3.5%
- The new Vessel Become the new Pilot 3.1%
- The end of the cycle Break the cycle of Chaos 2.5%
- Embracing Chaos Beat the Ordeal with a score of at least 3 Chaos 2.5%
- Being Chaos Beat the Ordeal with a score of at least 5 Chaos 2.2%
- Master explorer Beat the Ordeal with all rooms of every Realm explored 2.1%
- The strength of the oak Beat the Ordeal without any health bonus (nor item, nor blessing) 1.9%
- Refusing the gift Beat the Ordeal without picking any Blessing 1.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.