When does Divinity: Dragon Commander get good?

Give it 10 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 15h it's 1 in 11 (9%). Fully opens up by hour 15.

How many players finish Divinity: Dragon Commander?

24% of players who start reach the ending.

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Divinity: Dragon Commander

Aug 6, 2013 Steam: Mostly Positive

Give it 10 hours

Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players

Reach the ending 24% of players who started

Started playing 77% of owners

Steam reviews 74% positive of 2,553

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (66%); after 15h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
Fully opens up by hour 15.
The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
24% of players who start reach the ending.
Most players drop off before “Just The Beginning” (Start chapter 2): only 57% of starters get there.
77% 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 2,563 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 14.1h for positive, 5.5h 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 (76.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Started playing 100%
Just The Beginning Start chapter 2. Most players quit here 57% −43
The Finale Start chapter 3. 33% −24
Emperor Of Rivellon Finish the game. 24% −9

story milestone ending biggest drop-off

Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.

All achievements (100)

story milestone ending side

Here Be Dragons Turn into a dragon. 100%
Close Air Support Kill 10 units with your dragon. 91%
Look Mom, I Won! Win an RTS battle against AI. 86%
Zero Casualties Fight a battle and lose none of the units you took with you. 77%
Do My Dirty Work Pay a general to fight for you. And win. 72%
Dragon Support Kill 100 units with your dragon. 61%
Just The Beginning Start chapter 2. 57%
I Am Dragon, Hear Me Roar Take 5500 damage as a Dragon and live to tell the tale, without despawning. 57%
I Am The Cure Heal your units as a dragon. 55%
Draconarius Fully upgrade a unit. 54%
Bloodsucker Leech a total of 10000 health as a Dragon with the Blood Leech Dragon skill. 51%
You May Kiss The Bride Marry a princess. 51%
Cat And Dog Let's hope they don't kill each other. 48%
Imperator Research a master unit. 45%
To Hell With The Devil Meet Corvus. 45%
I Came To See RTS Win an RTS battle without ever spawning your dragon. 44%
Getting The Hang Of It You have won 10 RTS battles. 42%
Dragon Knight Research a master dragon skill. 40%
All Work And No Play Makes Dragon A Dull Whelp Build a total of 600 units from any production facility during RTS battles (any type of unit). 36%
Duuuuu-uuude! This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 35%
I'm Multifungatorialasomething Command a building to build a unit in RTS while in Dragon mode. 34%
Hop To It! Lives are at stake here! 34%
Natural Born General Destroy 150 enemy units on the Strategy Map with auto-resolves 33%
The Finale Start chapter 3. 33%
Extra Crispy Kill 500 units with your dragon. 32%
Suffragette City She's alright. 30%
All That Glisters Build a Gold Mine on a country with an income of more than 4 gold. 30%
Kings Are Born, Not Made This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 28%
Requiescat In Pace This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 25%
Indecisive Make up your mind already! 25%
Emperor Of Rivellon Finish the game. 24%
Sabotage! Play a Sabotage Movement Card on the Strategy Map that effectively blocks an enemy unit from moving. 24%
Demolition Destroy an enemy building on the strategy map. 22%
Another Day, Another Dollar This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 21%
Kill 'Em All Kill 1000 units with your dragon. 19%
Heads Will Roll The hunted not the hunter. 17%
Just Said No Didn't you hear? The best man for the job is a woman. 17%
Kaboom! Destroy 15 enemy units with a single Eye of the Patriarch. 17%
Certified Expert Demon Hunter In chapter 3, conquer the enemy's Capital within 15 turns. 17%
It's Magic! Transform an enemy into a ladybug. 16%
Thank You For Not Smoking This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 16%
No Pain No Gain This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 15%
Elephant In The Room This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 15%
What Is Yours, Now Is Mine In RTS battle, capture an enemy factory with troopers. 14%
Enophile Share a glass of wine with your queen. 13%
Orcs Are People Too This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 13%
Positive Reinforcement This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 13%
Ace Up Your Sleeve Buy a card from the Emporium. 13%
And Stay Down! This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 12%
No Dog Is Too Much For Me This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 12%
Streaker This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 12%
Mine? Destroy a unit with an Ironclad's seamines. 11%
Strike! This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 9.6%
Toxic Avenger This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 9.4%
Better To Reign In Hell Than Serve In Heaven This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 9.3%
Animals Are People Too This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 9.1%
Oh You Philistine! Like a dragon in a china shop. 8.5%
Busted Their Bunker Destroy an enemy building with an Imp Bunker Buster. 7.4%
Fly My Pretties Shoot fire-bats from a Zeppelin. 7.3%
Luck Of The Irish Win an autoresolve battle against all odds. 6.8%
For Science! This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 6.4%
It's Alive! Alive! This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 6.1%
Old Yeller This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 6.1%
Cover Up This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 6.1%
Can't Touch This Effectively block 50 incoming enemy projectiles with the Ironclad's On Guard skill. 5.9%
Hippocrat Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 5.6%
Hard Core You have won 50 RTS battles. 5.5%
Nosferatu Meet the vampire. 5.3%
Old School This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 4.7%
Soylent Green This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 4.7%
The Sacred Perpetuity Of The Bone This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 4.4%
Hole In One Kill 10 troopers with one Devastator shot. 4.2%
Major Buzzkill Destroy an enemy Imp Bunker Buster while it is still travelling to its target. 3.9%
Unanimous Follow the jury. 3.8%
Dog Fight Dragon Fight, really. 3.7%
David And Goliath Destroy a Juggernaut with a Transport. 3.5%
Daddy Issues Feed a king to the pigs. 3.4%
Blood Dawn All is fair in love and war. 3.4%
Put Me Down For One Of Each This achievement unlocks when making a certain political decision. 3.3%
Summary Justice Send in the Rangers. 2.5%
Gambling Man It's only a tower, right? 2.1%
Henry II Oops, you've imprisoned your wife. 2.0%
Hoarse Throat Have all 3 Dragon Roar buffs on one or more friendly units. 2.0%
Indecent Proposal Allow your queen to bed a stranger. 1.8%
Win Some, Lose Some The first steps are the hardest. Don't give up! 1.8%
A Winner Is You Win A One On One RTS Battle In Multiplayer. 1.8%
Henry V Once more unto the breach: command and win 100 RTS battles. 1.7%
Overkill Cripple an enemy unit with a Shaman, then use a Warlock's Death From Above skill on it. 1.7%
Oops Accidentally destroy 10 of your own units or allied units with a Juggernaut's Imp Bunker Buster skill. 1.6%
High Octane Bully Dragon Take out 3 enemy Dragons in one lifetime as a Dragon. 1.6%
Strength is oozing from my veins! Emerge victorious from an RTS battle where your chance to win was less than 15% on the combat screen (in Multiplayer or versus Hard/Insane AI). 1.6%
Heal-o-matic 5000 Have all Healing Dragon skills (Purifying Flames, Salvation, Aura of Restoration, Mass Restoration and Pillar of Restoration) equipped in a single RTS battle and use them all at least once during combat. 1.4%
Is That All You've Got? Beat Hard AI in a single RTS Skirmish battle. 1.3%
Cards Don't Speak Win a battle against a 5 card player, without using cards. 1.2%
I See What You Did There Uncloak an enemy dragon. 1.2%
Anyday, Anytime Beat Insane AI in a single RTS Skirmish battle. 1.2%
Grand Strategy Win A One On One Campaign In Multiplayer. 1.0%
Even More Grander Strategy Win A Two On Two Campaign In Multiplayer. 1.0%
Have Your Cake And Eat It Too In an RTS battle, Charm an enemy Juggernaut that holds an Imp Bunker Buster and fire it. 1.0%
Team Up! Win A Two On Two RTS Battle In Multiplayer. 1.0%

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