Blades of Time
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 10h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 17% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Free to go!” (Kill the Gateguard): only 57% of starters get there.
- 81% 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 2,741 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 8.4h for positive, 2.6h 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 (81.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Free to go! Kill the Gateguard. Most players quit here 57% −43
- Clear the Jungle Kill the Shaman Boss. 41% −16
- Old Temple Reach the Sanctuary. 37% −4
- World of Order Defeat Skyguard Commander. 31% −6
- Big Corpse Defeat Giant Worm. 27% −4
- Sky Islands Leave the Sky Islands. 22% −5
- Brutal Lands Kill the Vicar of Chaos. 19% −2
- Dragon Ayumi receives her Dragon form. 18% −1
- Keeper Is Dead Finish the game on any difficulty level. 17% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Gather Chi Get the ability to gather Chi. 100%
- Rifle Find the rifle. 90%
- Coral Dash Get the ability to dash to the corals. 74%
- Enemy Dash Get the ability to dash to enemies. 68%
- Free to go! Kill the Gateguard. 57%
- Time Rewind Get the ability to rewind time. 57%
- Order Spell Survive Chaos event. 54%
- Ready To Fight Find all types of equipment. 53%
- Clear the Jungle Kill the Shaman Boss. 41%
- Brutal Kill Kill 5 enemies at the same time. 41%
- Old Temple Reach the Sanctuary. 37%
- World of Order Defeat Skyguard Commander. 31%
- Big Corpse Defeat Giant Worm. 27%
- Too Hot For You Kill Brutal Maul without being frozen by his shockwave. 25%
- Curious Find half the notes. 23%
- Sky Islands Leave the Sky Islands. 22%
- Brutal Lands Kill the Vicar of Chaos. 19%
- Dragon Ayumi receives her Dragon form. 18%
- Famous Hunter Kill 1000 enemies in total. 18%
- Keeper Is Dead Finish the game on any difficulty level. 17%
- Faster Than You! Use Counterattack 100 times. 16%
- Unstoppable Win any Outbreak match. 15%
- Your Fire Is Nothing Kill the Shaman Boss without taking damage from his massive fire spell. 12%
- Outbreak Hero Kill each Outbreak boss at least once. 8.8%
- Annihilation Kill Kill 10 enemies at the same time. 8.4%
- Experienced Play 5 Outbreak matches. 6.3%
- Grasshopper Use Dash 30 times without touching the ground. 6.1%
- Angry Kill 100 enemies during your Time Rewind Berserk buff. 4.5%
- I'm Rich Find all the chests in story mode on the Normal difficulty level. 4.3%
- Collector Find all the notes. 4.1%
- Double Attack Kill 25 heavy enemies using the Time Rewind double attack. 4.1%
- Out of My Way Kill an enemy player in an Outbreak match. 3.8%
- Treasure Hunter Find all the chests in story mode on the Hard difficulty level. 3.4%
- Hard Times Are Over Finish the game on the Hard difficulty level. 3.4%
- Rain of Bullets Shoot off Magic Armor from 50 enemies using Time Rewind clones. 3.1%