GRAVEN
The first 2 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 4h it's 1 in 2 (46%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 81% of games we track.
- Only 37% 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 1,555 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 10.1h for positive, 5.6h 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 (37.3% 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 (37)
- Elgan's Domain Enter Cruxfirth 100%
- Breakthrough Kill 10 enemies with penetrating projectiles. 87%
- Craftsman Upgrade a weapon. 68%
- Mind Your Footing Kill an enemy with falling damage. 61%
- Beacon in the Fog Illuminate the Lighthouse 59%
- The Parallel Path Find every Orthogonal shrine. 52%
- Sommelier Quaff every potion. 40%
- My Walking Stick Kill 10 enemies with the fully upgraded staff. 35%
- A Plague Repelled Destroy the flesh tree 22%
- Sail North Depart to seek Grimwine's knowledge. 20%
- Home Again Push the Rebirthed out of the village. 19%
- Grimwine's Gate Pass through the Cursed Barrier to enter the castle. 15%
- Tomb of Tomes Kill Gravick. 14%
- Ephemeral Ontology Pursue the strange person into the horizon. 13%
- Vase Maneuvers Kill an enemy by hitting them with a decoration. 12%
- Wet Feet Kill an enemy stunned by shocked water. 12%
- Tried, Found Justified Receive absolution from the bishop. 11%
- Bend the Knee Prevent falling damage by crouching on impact. 9.7%
- Icebreaker Kill a chilled enemy with a critical hit. 9.1%
- Causation Restored Defeat all forms of the Created. 8.6%
- Lithophile Find every staff stone. 7.0%
- Short Fuse Kill a skeleton sapper by igniting their pack. 5.9%
- Liminal Rite Survive a song against a full choir. 5.1%
- Vagabond Use a fast travel stone to return to a previous region. 4.8%
- Warrior in the Garden Find every weapon. 4.3%
- Powder Kick Kick an explosive container into an enemy. 4.0%
- Sight Reading Kill a Dihedral Chanter with the Orthogonal Hymnal. 3.8%
- Putrefaction Learn about the Undecaying Cult. 3.8%
- Heretics Kill 100 Dihedral with spells. 3.2%
- The Cloth Discover the history of the Orthogonal Order. 3.2%
- Burning Reentry Kill an enemy with a peat-stuck Skitterfly. 2.9%
- Finery Find every ring. 2.9%
- Anagogic Fully upgrade every spell. 1.9%
- The Flagellant Path Complete the story on the highest difficulty. 1.9%
- Frozen in Rage Uncover the origins of the Shivering Dead. 1.6%
- Illumined Sky Destroy 10 projectiles using the Crystal Candelabra. 0.8%
- Clerical Error Recover 200 health from Cleric healing potion spills. 0.8%