ActionAdventureRPG
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Give it 7 hours
Gets good by 7h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 40% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 2,146
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 15h it's 1 in 30 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 40% 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 2,141 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 15.6h for positive, 10.6h 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 (40.1% 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 (33)
- Consult an FAQ Already Died over 10 times on a single boss. 100%
- Showoff Defeated 5 or more enemies (except Mozgouz) at the same time. 100%
- Social Butterfly Spoke with every character in the game at least once. 74%
- Proficient Plunderer Completed Anya's treasure-hunt game. 71%
- Savior of Swine Saved all of Hugo's pikkards. 66%
- Hollow Victory Beat the game on Very Easy. 60%
- Beast Master Encountered every enemy in the game, excluding bosses. 53%
- Bedazzled Acquired every jewel. 52%
- Mildly Manly Beat the game on Easy. 52%
- More Like "Adol the Yellow"! Began the game on Very Easy. 52%
- Gods Beater Beat the game on Normal. 50%
- A Talent For Forgery Maxed out all equipment. 41%
- Bad At Platformers Enabled "No-Fall" mode. 40%
- Oblivious or Insensitive? Sold Randolph's ring to Cynthia. 36%
- Wanderer From Ys Spent over 10 hours in a single playthrough. 32%
- Legacy Pervert "Measured" Elena. 24%
- Master of Futility "Killed" 50 immortal beasts without using the Silver Chimes. 21%
- The Exterminator Killed 2,000 Mozgouz across all playthroughs. 20%
- Hardcore Hero Beat the game on Hard. 13%
- 28 Maids Later Killed 500 Selnades across all playthroughs. 9.0%
- You Can Stop Now Achieved max level. 9.0%
- Genos Who? Beat the game on Nightmare. 8.0%
- Never Smelled the Roses Beat the game in under 5 hours. 7.0%
- More Like "Subordinate Crawl"! Conquered Boss Rush on Normal. 6.0%
- Like a Boss Defeated the final boss without taking any damage. 5.0%
- Bearer of the Biggest Sword Beat the game on Inferno. 4.7%
- Tastes Like Chicken Defeated "The Deadliest Cuteness." 4.2%
- Adol the All-Crusher Conquered Boss Rush on Nightmare. 4.0%
- Harder Than Hardcore Conquered Boss Rush on Hard. 4.0%
- Forever Alone Escorted Elena to safety on every difficulty level. 3.7%
- Hardt Laid Bare Bested the master of the mountains in one-on-one combat. 3.7%
- That's the Last Time, Kid Escorted Christof to safety on every difficulty level. 3.7%
- Overachiever Completed all other achievements. 3.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.