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九霄缳神记 JIU XIAO
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 93% of owners
Steam reviews 59% positive of 469
What the data shows
- 36% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (36%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 85% of games we track.
- 93% 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 474 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 274 reviews: 5.7h for positive, 2.5h 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 (92.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (42)
- Nightmare Complete Prologue 100%
- Pupil of True Sight Use the True Sight mode 86%
- Executioner Execute a enemy 84%
- Man on the Peak Get a "God Slayer" rating in a battle 65%
- Feather of Iron Sword Absorbed the ability of "Star Hook" 61%
- Shadow Complete the chapter "Shadow" on any difficulty 60%
- Hidden record Unlock a Hidden record 44%
- Shield of Monster Absorbed the ability of "Zhu Jian" 41%
- Phantom Complete the chapter "Phantom" on any difficulty 41%
- Essence Breakthrough Increase life limit 40%
- Blue Shadow Mystery First encounter with Blue Shadow 33%
- Ice of Cold Blood Absorbed the ability of "Dark Moon" 30%
- Partner Complete the chapter "Partner" on any difficulty 30%
- Grim Reaper Execute 50 enemies 29%
- Blue Shadow Again Encounter the blue shadow again 25%
- Earth-shaking Complete the chapter "Earth-shaking" on any difficulty 25%
- Spirit of Gluttonous Increase energy limit 23%
- Deception Complete the chapter "Deception" on any difficulty 22%
- Friend or foe Always attack Blue Shadow's enemies without harming Blue Shadow 20%
- United Complete the chapter "United" on any difficulty 19%
- Force of Cosmic Light Use Cosmic Light instrument to smash the evil thorns 18%
- Surrender Don't fight back when trapped by Blue Shadow 18%
- Exposed Complete the chapter "Exposed" on any difficulty 18%
- Advented Complete the chapter "Advented" on any difficulty 17%
- Broken Complete the chapter "Broken" on any difficulty 17%
- Refining Complete the chapter "Refining" on any difficulty 16%
- Exhausted Complete the chapter "Exhausted" on any difficulty 16%
- Die Together Hold Blue Shadow's hand tightly 16%
- Hidden story Unlock 5 Hidden records 9.8%
- Soldier Complete all chapters on Normal difficulty 8.3%
- Unbelievable Gain a "God Slayer" rating for any chapter (at least normal difficulty) 6.6%
- Indomitable 100 deaths 4.5%
- Elite Complete all chapters on Elite difficulty 4.2%
- Hidden history Unlock all Hidden records 3.1%
- Embers Completely crack the relic ruins of the LiaoYuan 2.9%
- Breath of Black Turtle Upgrade Radon Energy 10 times in the "United" chapter 2.4%
- Hero Complete all chapters on Heroic difficulty 2.3%
- LiLy Adventure Use the LiLy to destroy all obstacles in the mystery 1.7%
- Perfect host Increase energy limit 10 times 1.5%
- God Slayer Gain a "God Slayer" rating for all chapters (at least normal difficulty) 1.4%
- Pinnacle of the essence Increase life limit 10 times 1.4%
- Read everything Unlock all codex 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.