Eastern Exorcist
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (38%); after 7h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- At least 44% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Snow Ape” and “Fish Fiend”: from 100% to 78% of starters.
- Only 59% 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 6,874 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 7.5h for positive, 2.6h 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 (58.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Snow Ape Eliminate Snow Ape 100%
- Fish Fiend Eliminate Fish Fiend Most players quit here 78% −22
- Green Wraith Eliminate Green Wraith 73% −4
- Shura Eliminate Shura 59% −14
- Chu Eliminate Chu 55% −4
- Three-faced Rakshasa Eliminate Three-faced Rakshasa 52% −3
- Evil Treant Eliminate Evil Treant 51% −1
- Amorphous Plague Demon Eliminate Amorphous Plague Demon 50% −1
- Dragon God Eliminate Dragon God 49% −1
- Colonel Yin Eliminate Colonel Yin 48% −2
- Marquis Xi Eliminate Marquis Xi 47% −1
- Lady Poison Eliminate Lady Poison 46% −1
- King Mandrill Eliminate King Mandrill 45% −1
- The legend of Lu Yunchuan Complete the journey of Lu Yunchuan ≥45% −1
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 (40)
story milestone ending side
- Snow Ape Eliminate Snow Ape 100%
- Demon Disperse Dispel 3 or more demons at once 96%
- Fish Fiend Eliminate Fish Fiend 78%
- Green Wraith Eliminate Green Wraith 73%
- Tit for tat Perform counter attack and bounce the enemy's projectile back 3 times in a battle 71%
- Python Yaksha Eliminate Python Yaksha 68%
- Shura Eliminate Shura 59%
- Chu Eliminate Chu 55%
- Three-faced Rakshasa Eliminate Three-faced Rakshasa 52%
- Evil Treant Eliminate Evil Treant 51%
- Amorphous Plague Demon Eliminate Amorphous Plague Demon 50%
- Elk Warrior Eliminate Elk Warrior 50%
- Dragon God Eliminate Dragon God 49%
- Colonel Yin Eliminate Colonel Yin 48%
- Marquis Xi Eliminate Marquis Xi 47%
- Thoroughly tempered Reach 30 level of Lu Yunchuan 46%
- Lady Poison Eliminate Lady Poison 46%
- Demon Canine Eliminate Demon Canine 46%
- King Mandrill Eliminate King Mandrill 45%
- The legend of Lu Yunchuan Complete the journey of Lu Yunchuan 45%
- ??? Eliminate ??? 45%
- Dark General Eliminate Dark General 42%
- Tang Ming Eliminate Tang Ming 39%
- Skeleton Arhat Eliminate Skeleton Arhat 37%
- Take it easy Perform counter attack 3 times in a battle while on the verge of death 36%
- Headless Commander Eliminate Headless Commander 35%
- Yaksha General Eliminate Yaksha General 34%
- Ghost Buddha Eliminate Ghost Buddha 33%
- Thoroughly tempered Reach Xiahou Xue’s maximum level 31%
- Bloodwing Puppet Eliminate Bloodwing Puppet 31%
- Escape from death Perform perfect dodge 5 times in a battle while on the verge of death 31%
- Burdened Puppet Eliminate Burdened Puppet 31%
- Blood Demon Eliminate Blood Demon 30%
- Story of Xiahou Xue Complete the journey of Xiahou Xue 29%
- Chaos Eliminate Chaos 29%
- Forge ahead Complete Lu Yunchuan or Xiahou Xue's story without using Excess Replenishments 23%
- More than enough Finish the game on standard difficulty with no more than 60 healings 8.5%
- Exorcism Master Complete all Challenge Stages on hard difficulty 6.3%
- Exorcism Master Completed all Challenge States on Hard Difficulty for Xiahou Xue’s Story 4.9%
- Reach the peak of perfection Finish the game on standard difficulty at Level 1 4.4%