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Reaper - Tale of a Pale Swordsman
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 85% of owners
Steam reviews 68% positive of 462
What the data shows
- 50% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (50%).
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 85% 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 463 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 7.3h for positive, 2.1h 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 (85.2% 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 (10)
- Welcome To Wilderness Win 3 battles. 100%
- Battle Ready Get fully equipped. 50%
- Unstoppable Force Win a streak of 10 battles in a row. 41%
- Blood Harvest Slay 1000 enemies. 32%
- Death Is Not The End Resurrect during battle. 19%
- Mastery Get 5 skill cards of a single skill. 16%
- Godslayer Slay Iraess. 5.9%
- March On Travel 1000 miles. 4.9%
- Fortune Collect 300 000 gold. 2.5%
- Dark Legend Achieve Level 60 in Dark Harvest mode. 2.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.