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Death Must Die
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 82% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 21,806
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (18%); after 10h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 77% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 82% 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 22,002 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 25.3h for positive, 18.6h 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 (82.2% 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 (59)
story milestone ending side
- The Sign of Fire Deal 100000 Damage with Merris 100%
- A Thousand Bones Defeat 6000 Skeletons 99%
- Jelly Defeat 4000 Oozes 94%
- The Sign of The Tornado Kill 25 enemies with a single strike with Kront 87%
- The Sign of The Hero Kill 500 Skeletons with Avoron 86%
- The Sign of The Quest Traverse 30000 distance with Skadi 84%
- A Stake For A Vampire Defeat the Baron 83%
- The Summoner Defeat 50 Summoners 81%
- Deadly Precision Deal a total of 2000 Critical Damage with Nixi 76%
- What Have You Done To My Pets? Defeat The Gargoyles with Avoron 70%
- What Sorcery is This? Get 4 different Cast Blessings as Merris 68%
- Jack of All Trades Apply 5 different statuses in an attempt with Skadi 68%
- Scrap Metal Defeat 50 Shielders with Kront 66%
- Well Travelled Traverse 50000 distance as Lorien 58%
- Training a Dragon Win an attempt as Merris using the Pet Dragon talent. 57%
- Arms Still Strong Deal a critical of 400 damage with Kront 57%
- Bruised Ego Lose an attempt as Lorien 57%
- Saving The Day Kill 1000 Skeletons as Lorien 55%
- Obsidian Win an attempt at 5 Difficulty 53%
- Start a Party! Get 40 summons with Merris 53%
- Nothing But A Scratch! Heal 999 life with Skadi 51%
- A Black Heart Win an attempt at 10 Difficulty 47%
- Rocks to the Face Win an attempt as Kront using the Rock Shield blessing from Ninh 43%
- Vampire Slayer Defeat The Baron with Avoron 42%
- Pocket Change Collect 1000 gold in an attempt as Nixi 39%
- Pest Control Kill 25 Summoners with Skadi 39%
- The Apprentice Level up to 30 with Skadi 39%
- Shieldbreaker Destroy an elite enemy's barrier with a single strike with Kront 36%
- The Sign of The Assassin Defeat The Gargoyles under 20 Seconds with Nixi 34%
- No Backtalk Defeat the chatty skeleton 33 times with Merris 26%
- Blessed By Fate Win an attempt as Nixi using the Serendipity blessing from the Fates 26%
- Killer Queen Defeat The Insect Queen as Lorien 25%
- Pilgrim Travel to 40 different locations in an attempt as Avoron. 23%
- The Hourglass of Time Lose 9 times as Avoron 23%
- The Sign Of Excellence Level up to 40 as Lorien 23%
- Enter The Darkmoor Go through the waypoint to The Darkmoor 22%
- Bastion of Knowledge Win an attempt with Avoron using the Grand Archon talent. 18%
- Out Of Wishes Defeat the Djinn 16%
- The Lady Bows Her Head Defeat the Lady 14%
- Grasshopper Get 4 Dashes with Nixi 14%
- I Can Do This! Win an attempt as Skadi with Darkness 13%
- Legend vs Legend Defeat The Djinn as Kront 12%
- By the Holy Light! Win an attempt as Avoron using the Light Rays blessing from Lady Justice 12%
- Showoff Win an attempt as Lorien using the Bask in Greatness talent 10%
- Catnip Win an attempt as Leaf using the Panther form 10%
- There Is No Fork Win an attempt as Merris using the Telekinesis talent 8.9%
- Ghost Matter Win an attempt without taking damage 8.6%
- I Just Need One Arrow Win an attempt as Lorien using the Whistling Arrow talent 8.5%
- Electrifying Presence Win an attempt as Merris using the Charged Field talent 8.3%
- Bearly a Scratch Win an attempt as Leaf using the Bear form 7.4%
- Good Boys Win an attempt as Skadi using the wolves 6.1%
- Toxic! Win an attempt as Nixi using the Mind Reaper talent 6.0%
- I Warned You! Win an attempt as Kront using the Rampage talent 5.2%
- Nocturnal Win an attempt as Nixi using the Endless Night talent 4.5%
- Satiated Win an attempt as Leaf using the Vampirism blessing from Mort 2.6%
- Cut The Traitors Defeat 50 Treefolk as Leaf 2.6%
- No Handouts Win an attempt without using any locations as Leaf 2.6%
- Breaking The Rules Win an attempt as Leaf with 3 different Dash blessings 1.7%
- Face Yourself Defeat your shadow self as Leaf 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.