Pascal's Wager: Definitive Edition

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 1,388 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 15.2h for positive, 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 (63.8% 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 (82)

• Alchemy Apprentice Use the Altar for Alchemy 100%
• Loss of Sanity Have a mental Lunatic 98%
• Beginner Inset an immundus 94%
• Crazy Prologue Defeat the Maddened Ascetic 79%
• Nightmare Defeat a Strong Obsession during Lunatic 76%
• Dark Mist Traveler Explore the dark mist 62%
• Father and Daughter Defeat the Holy Father 56%
• Wedding under the Moon Defeat the Jenny of Exilium 47%
• Chivalry Defeat Rosen Cavailer Patrick 41%
• The banality of evil Defeat Fused Sprenger 39%
• Crazy Accumulate 5 hours of Abnormal 38%
• Ascetic Get killed for 50 times 37%
• Deicide Defeat the Edith 33%
• Victory Blessed by Benita 31%
• Demiurge's Destruction Defeat Elena 29%
• Escape from Madness Defeat the mad Demiurges in Divine Courtroom 29%
• The Apostasy Defeat Proxy Higgins 28%
• The Cultists Defeat the Usurper 25%
• Grandmaster Inset 5 Immundus Diamonds 24%
• War and Destiny Complete the quests of Rosen Cavailer Patrick, Vincent and Eleanor 22%
• Puppet of Hatred Defeat Guderian the Guardian 21%
• Blood Ties Complete Viola's story 21%
• My love Defeat The First Messenger 20%
• Ingenuity Acquire 3 Trophies with +5 quality 20%
• Redemption Complete Benita's story 19%
• The Hero Who Went Astray Defeat Duke Handel 19%
• Hand in Coffin Complete Norwood's story 18%
• Trading Without Borders Find all the Siflers in Ichthyosauria 18%
• Hide and Seek Find all Siflers 17%
• The River Shall Flow Breach the Wall of Silence and make Soul River flow again 17%
• Persistent Achieve the desired ending through perseverance 17%
• Druggist Make 80 potions 17%
• Whisper of the Heart Complete all companion' contracts in a new game round 16%
• Dominator's Revelry Ingratiate yourself with the Heggie of Ichthyosauria and obtain the key to the doors of the treasury 16%
• Dark Mist Lord Explore all Dark Mist areas 16%
• New Journey Start the second Journey 15%
• Beg, Borrow or Steal Defeat the Treasure Thieves 15%
• A Lad from the Depth Find the fate of Bravo's soul 14%
• Naturalist Satisfied all Heggies 14%
• Dark Mist Drifter Defeat all the Terror Obsessions in the Dark Mist Border 13%
• Death Knell Defeat Frollo 13%
• The Truth Kill all Strong Obsessions during Lunatic 13%
• Witness Finish all the Tales 13%
• Heavy Armed Acquire the Dazzling Melos Bottle 11%
• Blacksmith Acquire 20 Trophy items 9.9%
• Great Master Acquire 6 Trophies with +5 quality 9.4%
• The Answer Find the answer you've been seeking at the end of the journey. 9.1%
• Pieces of Old Days Discover the ancient memories buried deep in Ichthyosauria 8.3%
• The Foreign Swordsman Activate every max talent of Jerold 7.8%
• Illusion Acquire 1000 anthozoan bones 7.7%
• Dark Mist Explorer Defeat all the Terror Obsessions in the Dark Mist Interior 7.2%
• Transcendent Doubt breeds true Sanity 6.1%
• Wisdom Find all Documents 6.1%
• Imperishable Acquire Imperishable Melos Bottle 5.8%
• Dark Mist Voyager Defeat all the Terror Obsessions in the Dark Mist Depths 5.2%
• Super Human Activate all the Talents at the highest level 4.4%
• Challenge Compelete the game with Altar Level 1 4.2%
• Dark Mist Warden Defeat all the Terror Obsessions in the Dark Mist Cave 4.2%
• Path of Suffering Defeat the Obsessed One of Adamina 4.2%
• Alchemist Get all Alchemy formulas 3.9%
• Dark Mist Lord Defeat the powerful Obsession at the end of the Dark Mist 3.9%
• Merchant in the War Make 30 Weapon items 3.6%
• Shadow Moon Defeat the Obsessed One of Heggem 3.6%
• For Teresa In Obsession Challenge, defeat the First Messenger using any role but Terrence. 3.4%
• Demiurge Dancer Activate all of Elena's talents in Dance of the Throne. 3.4%
• Deadly Elegance Use Sword Dance - Lone Shadow to dodge 3 incoming attacks while attacking. 3.1%
• Fleeting Defeat the Obsessed One of Exilium 3.0%
• First Awakening Clear Dance of the Throne for the first time. 2.8%
• Eternal War Defeat the Obsessed One of Katib 2.8%
• Demiurge's Wish Defeat the Obsessed One of Edith 2.8%
• Pascal's Wager Get all 'Pascal's Wager' Trophies 2.7%
• Legendary Courier Complete the 4th Journey or above without using the Egg of the Bearer 2.7%
• Finale Defeat the Obsessed One of Blessedland 2.7%
• Untouchable In any mode of Obsession Challenge, defeat all the Obsessed Ones in the main story without getting injured. 2.5%
• The Obsessed One In the Standard Mode of Obsession Challenge, defeat all the Obsessed Ones in the main story. 2.5%
• Eternal Colossus In the Custom Mode under Colossus Difficulty of Obsession Challenge, defeat all the Obsessed Ones in the main story. 2.5%
• Path of Truth Defeat the Obsessed One of Karst Cave 2.5%
• Lost in a Dream Obtain the mysterious item in Blessedland. 2.4%
• Legacy Find and defeat all the Obsessed Ones from the Nightmare in Dance of the Throne. 2.2%
• Return to Sender Deflect 10 ranged attacks in 10 seconds. 2.0%
• Endless Nightmare Use Elena to clear Dance of the Throne on Hard Difficulty. 1.7%
• Empress of the Eternal Night Obtain an overall S rank for Dance of the Throne in Hard Difficulty. 1.6%