God of War
Give it 10 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 7 reviews are negative (14%); after 20h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised less than in 84% of games we track.
- 53% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “A New Friend” (Survive the Witch’s Woods) and “Feels Like Home” (Allow the Light Elves to return home): from 85% to 71% of starters.
- 88% of owners got the first achievement.
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 187,147 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.1h for positive, 22h 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 (88.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Journey Begins Defend your home from The Stranger 99% −1
- A New Friend Survive the Witch’s Woods 85% −13
- Feels Like Home Allow the Light Elves to return home Most players quit here 71% −14
- Dragon Slayer Defeat the Dragon of the Mountain 65% −6
- Troubling Consequences Defeat Magni and Modi 61% −4
- Hello, Old Friend Retrieve the Blades of Chaos 60% −1
- Promise Fulfilled Heal Atreus 60%
- Round 2 Rescue Atreus 57% −3
- Past Haunts Ride the ship out of Helheim 57%
- Twilight Beckons Defeat Baldur 54% −3
- Last Wish Spread the ashes 53% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (37)
story milestone ending side
- Enchanted Slot an Enchantment into your armor 100%
- The Journey Begins Defend your home from The Stranger 99%
- Nice Moves Obtain a Runic Attack Gem 95%
- A New Friend Survive the Witch’s Woods 85%
- Dwarven Ingenuity Upgrade a piece of armor 82%
- Feels Like Home Allow the Light Elves to return home 71%
- Best Dressed Craft an outfit for Atreus 70%
- Dragon Slayer Defeat the Dragon of the Mountain 65%
- Troubling Consequences Defeat Magni and Modi 61%
- Hello, Old Friend Retrieve the Blades of Chaos 60%
- Promise Fulfilled Heal Atreus 60%
- Round 2 Rescue Atreus 57%
- Past Haunts Ride the ship out of Helheim 57%
- The Best Moves Fully upgrade a Runic Attack 56%
- Twilight Beckons Defeat Baldur 54%
- Last Wish Spread the ashes 53%
- Trilingual Learn the languages of Muspelheim and Niflheim 51%
- All Will Fall Kill 1,000 Enemies 36%
- Death Happened Here Fully explore Veithurgard 36%
- Iðunn’s Orchard Fully upgrade your Health 31%
- Like Oil and Water Complete all of Brok and Sindri’s Favors 30%
- Quick Tempered Fully upgrade your rage 29%
- Beneath the Surface Explore all the Lake of Nine has to offer 28%
- Why Fight It? Fully upgrade the Blades of Chaos 26%
- Unfinished Business Assist all of the wayward spirits 26%
- Dangerous Skies Free all of the Dragons 26%
- Worthy Fully upgrade the Leviathan Axe 26%
- Chooser of the Slain Defeat the nine Valkyries 19%
- Path of the Zealot Obtain Traveler armor set 16%
- Fire and Brimstone Complete all of the Trials of Muspelheim 16%
- The Truth Read all of the Jötnar shrines 16%
- Primordial Obtain Ancient armor set 14%
- Darkness and Fog Retrieve all treasure from the Workshop’s center chamber 14%
- Allfather Blinded Kill all of Odin’s Ravens 9.4%
- Curator Collect all of the Artifacts 9.3%
- Treasure Hunter Use treasure maps to find all of the dig spots 9.3%
- Father and Son Obtain all other achievements 7.5%