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Assassin's Creed® Revelations
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 51% of players who started
Started playing 16% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 20,994
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 15h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 51% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Istanbul and Constantinople” (Complete DNA Sequence 2) and “Seal the Deal” (Complete DNA Sequence 3): from 87% to 69% of starters.
- Only 16% 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 21,070 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 15.9h for positive, 10.9h 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 (15.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Best Served Cold Complete DNA Sequence 1. 100%
- Istanbul and Constantinople Complete DNA Sequence 2. 87% −13
- Seal the Deal Complete DNA Sequence 3. Most players quit here 69% −19
- The Prince Complete DNA Sequence 4. 64% −4
- The Plot Thickens Complete DNA Sequence 5. 59% −5
- Successes and Failures Complete DNA Sequence 6. 56% −3
- Old Boss, New Boss Complete DNA Sequence 7. 53% −3
- Priorities Complete DNA Sequence 8. 51% −1
- Revelations Complete DNA Sequence 9. 51%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (48)
story milestone ending side
- Best Served Cold Complete DNA Sequence 1. 100%
- Istanbul and Constantinople Complete DNA Sequence 2. 87%
- Overkiller Assassinate 50 guards with the hidden blade. 72%
- Seal the Deal Complete DNA Sequence 3. 69%
- My Protégé Have one trainee reach the rank of Master Assassin. 69%
- The Prince Complete DNA Sequence 4. 64%
- The Plot Thickens Complete DNA Sequence 5. 59%
- Successes and Failures Complete DNA Sequence 6. 56%
- Old Boss, New Boss Complete DNA Sequence 7. 53%
- Priorities Complete DNA Sequence 8. 51%
- Revelations Complete DNA Sequence 9. 51%
- Tax Evasion Get your money back from a Templar tax collector. 37%
- Silent but deadly Kill three guards simultaneously with only throwing knives. 31%
- I can see you Kill 5 guards while under the cover of a smoke screen bomb. 28%
- Craft Maniac Craft 30 bombs. 26%
- Bully Find and beat up Duccio. 24%
- Iron Curtain Perform a perfect den defense without using the cannon. 23%
- Holy Wisdom Complete the Hagia Sofia challenge level. 22%
- Armchair General Control all cities (except Rhodes) simultaneously in the Mediterranian Defense game. 21%
- The Early Years Complete Desmond Sequence 1. 20%
- The Mentor Have seven trainees reach the rank of Master Assassin. 19%
- Monster's dance Have a guard incapacitate 3 civilians while he's poisoned. 19%
- The Reluctant Assassin Complete Desmond Sequence 2. 16%
- A Friend Indeed Complete all Faction Creed Challenges from a single faction. 15%
- Escape To New York Complete Desmond Sequence 3. 14%
- Pyromaniac Complete all Bomb Missions. 14%
- The Rotten Apple Complete Desmond Sequence 4. 14%
- Are You Desmond Miles? Complete Desmond Sequence 5. 13%
- Fond Memories Achieve 100% Synchronization in all Sequences. 13%
- Spider Assassin Climb Hagia Sofia, from the ground to the pinnacle, in under 25 seconds. 13%
- Capped Collect all animus data fragments. 12%
- Lightning Strikes Kill 5 guards in 5 seconds using only your hidden blades. 10%
- Show-Off Parachute onto a zipline. 10%
- Almost flying Parachute directly from the top of the Galata Tower to the golden horn. 9.6%
- Sage Collect all available books. 9.0%
- Mosh Pit Have 10 guards poisoned at the same time. 9.0%
- Save yourself Land on a block after falling more than 25 meters 8.3%
- Part of the Creed Take the induction leap of faith 7.7%
- Fast Fingers Loot 50 dead guards with thief looting. 7.1%
- Mouse Trap Kill 5 guards with a scaffold after they have been stunned by caltrops. 7.1%
- Jump they say Reach the Animus memo 7.1%
- Enter the Animus Enter the Animus simulation 7.1%
- Meet your maker Finish memory five 7.1%
- The Loop Experience the loop 7.1%
- Find all Pieces Find all of the decipher fragments 6.4%
- Breaking the Loop Break the loop, escape the cycle 5.8%
- Impress Warren Vidic Complete the Animus testing sequence without failing 5.1%
- Cross Styx without dying Make it across the river Styx without failing 5.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.