AdventureRPG
Etrian Odyssey III HD
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 87% positive of 789
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (39%); after 35h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 78% 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 794 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 41.2h for positive, 3.6h 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 (78.1% 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 (29)
- Waterfall Wood Reached the First Stratum. 100%
- Take a Breather Pitched a tent. 61%
- Sea's Bounty Went fishing. 58%
- Fine Tuning Forged a weapon. 54%
- Surprise! Encountered an enemy through mining ore, gathering plants, or chopping wood. 48%
- Undersea Grotto Reached the Second Stratum. 47%
- Molten Caves Reached the Third Stratum. 34%
- Out With a Bang Sunk a pirate ship with your cannon. 29%
- Abyssal Shrine Reached the Fourth Stratum. 25%
- Rest in Body and Mind Let an adventurer rest. 24%
- Porcelain Forest Reached the Fifth Stratum. 21%
- Honorable Warrior Unlocked the Shogun class. 20%
- Filthy Rich Obtained more than 250,000 Ental. 18%
- Cyclopean Haunt Reached the Sixth Stratum. 14%
- A Valiant Effort Retired an adventurer. 14%
- Indistinguishable from Magic Unlocked the Yggdroid class. 14%
- Cataclysmic Force Defeated a boss in a single turn. 13%
- Porcelain Wish Defeated Olympia and the Abyssal King. 13%
- Abyssal Desire Defeated the Deep Princess. 9.7%
- Wyrm Vanquisher Defeated the Wyrm. 9.2%
- Drake Vanquisher Defeated the Drake. 9.2%
- Dragon Vanquisher Defeated the Dragon. 9.2%
- Flower of the Sea Defeated the Anemone. 8.1%
- Crushing Blow Dealt 10,000 damage with a single hit outside of oceanic quests. 7.8%
- Eldest Path Defeated the Progenitor. 7.2%
- Starry Visitors Defeated the Abyssal God. 6.3%
- Bizarre Monsters Defeated all types of Pasaran, including Gold, Red, and Blue. 4.0%
- Absolute Power Defeated the boss of the Sixth Stratum on Expert difficulty. 3.7%
- Conqueror of Yggdrasil Obtained all other achievements. 2.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.