Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (52%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (21%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 80% of games we track.
- 80% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “...Damned If You Do”: only 80% of starters get there.
- Only 44% 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 3,189 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.6h for positive, 6.5h 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 (44.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- ...Damned If You Do Rage against your fate and complete the game with any character. Most players quit here 80% −20
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (28)
story milestone ending side
- The Managerial Call Become Embraced into the Ventrue clan. 100%
- Good Job, Mods Convince Hope to cooperate with you. 91%
- Sweet Smell of Success Convince D'Angelo to cooperate with you. 90%
- Rebel Yell Become Embraced into the Brujah clan. 89%
- Enchanted To Meet You Convince Agathon to cooperate with you. 84%
- ...Damned If You Do Rage against your fate and complete the game with any character. 80%
- A Walk in the Park Convince Tamika to cooperate with you. 77%
- Beyond The Canvas Become Embraced into the Toreador clan. 63%
- Journalistic Intervention Complete Frank Dougherty's questline ("A Nosy Reporter"). 58%
- Trouble Is My Business D'Angelo came to your help in the grand finale. 57%
- Beast Mode Tamika came to your help in the grand finale. 54%
- Consider This My Resignation Letter Meet somebody you used to know in life as the Ventrue. 54%
- Every Breath You Take Complete Adelaide Davis' questline ("Somebody's Watching Me") as her latest obsession. 52%
- Bye, My Lovely Complete D'Angelo's questline. 51%
- Extremely Online Gal Complete Hope's questlline. 48%
- Burn After Reading Complete Agathon's questline. 47%
- Arcane Support Agathon came to your help in the grand finale. 47%
- A Recruitment Fiasco Fail to recruit somebody into your coterie. 47%
- Like A Moth To An Old Flame Meet somebody you used to know in life as the Brujah. 46%
- Wild at Heart Complete Tamika's questline. 46%
- ...Damned If You Don't Accept your fate in Elysium. 45%
- Hope is a Dangerous Thing... Hope came to your help in the grand finale. 43%
- The Faith Of The Furious Complete Benoit Segal's questline ("Faith and Myth"). 42%
- Words That We Couldn't Say Meet somebody you used to know in life as the Toreador. 33%
- As Far As Your Legs Can Carry You Try running away from Qadir during your trial. 30%
- Get Out Of Here, Stalker Complete Adelaide Davis' questline ("Somebody's Watching Me") as her bitter foe. 27%
- The New York Trilogy Complete the game with all three characters. 14%
- A Face Only A Mother Could Love Nobody came to your help in the grand finale. Except for... 10%