El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster

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 525 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.8h for positive, 4.8h 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 (85.3% 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 (49)

• The Journey Begins Finish Chapter 00. 100%
• Journey's End Finish Chapter 01. 75%
• Welcome to the Tower Finish Chapter 02. 60%
• What's Yours Is Mine Acquire all the weapons. 53%
• Quite a Find Collect the Eyes of Truth. 47%
• Weapons Are Best Friends Have your weapon destroyed. 45%
• An Unfriendly Greeting Finish Chapter 03. 44%
• Escape From The Darkness Finish the Darkness stage. 42%
• Pushing the Limit Launch an Overboost. 38%
• Nephilim Party Finish Chapter 04. 37%
• Visitor from Beyond Time Finish Chapter 05. 33%
• Unnatural Evolution Finish Chapter 06. 31%
• A Warm Welcome Finish Chapter 07. 29%
• Aren't You Happy, Too? Finish Chapter 08. 28%
• Welcome Back, Enoch Finish Chapter 09. 27%
• Rest in Peace Defeat 50 of Souls of the Beloved 26%
• My Beautiful Children... Finish Chapter 10. 25%
• The Last Job Finish Chapter 11. 25%
• Angels Finish all chapters at the Easy difficulty level or higher. 24%
• Benevolent Missionary Defeat more than 500 enemies. 21%
• Principalities Finish all chapters at the Normal difficulty level or higher. 19%
• Out of Control Break 500 destructible objects. 15%
• Indomitable Soul Execute 50 recovers. 8.0%
• Hunter-Gatherer Take 100 weapons from enemies. 7.6%
• I'm Not Afraid of Watcher 1 Defeat Nether Azazel without executing a recover. 7.4%
• Arch Master Defeat 300 enemies with Arch. 6.9%
• Martial Arts Master Defeat 100 enemies with bare hands 4.8%
• Counterstrike Artist Execute 100 Perfect Guards. 4.1%
• Living Miracle Finish all chapters without a single Game Over. 3.9%
• I'm Not Afraid of Watcher 2 Defeat Nether Sariel without executing a recover. 3.6%
• Time In The Spotlight Defeat 50 enemies during Armaros show. 3.6%
• I'm Not Afraid of Watcher 3 Defeat Nether Ezekiel without executing a recover. 3.2%
• Gale Master Defeat 300 enemies with Gale. 3.0%
• I'll take the best you have In Chapter 10, take all weapons from all enemies and complete the chapter. 2.6%
• I'm Not Afraid of Watcher 4 Defeat Dark Armaros without executing a recover. 2.6%
• I Will Mourn You Obtain all entries in the Prophecies of Ishtar. 2.1%
• No Problem Finish any chapter without collecting any armor-recovery items. 2.1%
• Benevolent Savior Defeat more than 1000 enemies. 2.0%
• Good Listener Obtain all of the Freemen's Notes. 1.2%
• A Reliable Friend Raise your boost level to 10. 0.9%
• The armor okay? If not, I could... Finish Chapter 10 without taking any weapons from enemies. 0.9%
• Dominions Finish all chapters at the Hard difficulty level or higher. 0.8%
• My Acrobatic Friend Finish Chapter 08 without falling to death. 0.8%
• Show No Mercy Execute 100 Guard Breaks. 0.8%
• Veil Master Defeat 300 enemies with Veil. 0.8%
• Seraphim Finish all chapters at the Extra difficulty level or higher. 0.7%
• Adept Earn a G rank in every chapter at the Easy difficulty level or higher. 0.6%
• Conqueror Earn a G rank in every chapter at the Hard difficulty level or higher. 0.6%
• Lord of the Metatron Earn all of the Trophies. 0.5%