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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 30% of owners
Steam reviews 83% positive of 65,005
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 10h it's 1 in 7 (14%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 30% 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 65,201 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 264 reviews: 12.2h for positive, 8h 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 (29.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (49)
story milestone ending side
- Reach level 5 Gather enough points to reach level 5 100%
- Two handed weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with two handed weapons 81%
- Vultures Chef Kill 100 Men at Arms. 73%
- Bastard weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with bastard weapons 61%
- Reach level 10 Gather enough points to reach level 10 60%
- Cupid Shoot 40 arrows into the heart 59%
- One handed sharp Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed sharp weapons 57%
- Polearm Unlocked Gather enough experience with polearm weapons 49%
- All Two handed weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with two handed sword weapons 44%
- Two handed Axe Unlocked Gather enough experience with two handed axes weapons 41%
- Bow Unlocked Gather enough experience with bow weapons 34%
- Vanguard Veterans Helmet Become a Veteran Vanguard 31%
- All Bastard weapons Unlocked Gather enough experience with bastard weapons 31%
- Rotisserie Chef Decapitate an opponent that is on fire. 30%
- Spear Unlocked Gather enough experience with spearing weapons 29%
- One handed blunt weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed blunt weapons 28%
- Crossbow Unlocked Gather enough experience with crossbows 28%
- Swordsmith Unlock all swords 26%
- Five Star Archer Get 10 Headshots with a ranged weapon in one game. 25%
- Knight Veterans Helmet Become a Veteran Knight 25%
- One handed Axe Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed axe weapons 25%
- Archer Veterans Helmet Become a Veteran Archer 24%
- All One handed sharp Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed sharp weapons 22%
- Light weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with light weapons 22%
- All Polearms Unlocked Gather enough experience with polearm weapons 22%
- Man at Arms Veterans Helmet Become a Veteran Man at Arms 21%
- Heads Together Decapitate 2 opponents with 1 swing 19%
- Javelin Unlocked Gather enough experience with javelin weapons 19%
- I am a wall Successfully block 1000 times 18%
- Sightseeing Play 60 minutes each on Stoneshill, Hillside, Dark Forest and Battlegrounds 18%
- All Two handed Axe Unlocked Gather enough experience with two handed axes weapons 16%
- Reach level 20 Gather enough points to reach level 20 15%
- Dagger Unlocked Gather enough experience with dagger weapons 15%
- All Spears Unlocked Gather enough experience with spearing weapons 14%
- Agatha Knights supporter Team up with Agatha Knights for 20 hours. 13%
- All One handed blunt weapons Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed blunt weapons 12%
- All Bows Unlocked Gather enough experience with bow weapons 11%
- All One handed Axes Unlocked Gather enough experience with one handed axe weapons 10%
- All Crossbows Unlocked Gather enough experience with crossbows 10%
- Fire Starter Have 20 kills with Oil pot 9.4%
- Mason Order supporter Team up with the Mason Order for 20 hours. 9.4%
- All Javelins Unlocked Gather enough experience with javelin weapons 8.7%
- Fire Nemesis Put out the fire beacon in Hillside 8.4%
- King of Kings Survive 10 minutes as King in Stoneshill 7.0%
- Sands of Time Play Chivalry for more than 80 hours 7.0%
- All Light weapon Unlocked Gather enough experience with light weapons 7.0%
- Fists of Fury Have 100 kills with the fists 6.4%
- All Daggers Unlocked Gather enough experience with dagger weapons 5.4%
- Let it rain Fire 10,000 arrows with the Shortbow 4.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.