Ys X: Nordics

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 960 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 47h for positive, 29.6h 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 (92.2% 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 (55)

• A New Adventure Started a new adventure. 100%
• The Raid Completed the Prologue. 98%
• Carnac Completed Chapter 1. 90%
• Shoot the Breeze Listened to a shipboard conversation between crewmates via the Action Menu. 88%
• Shield Brethren Completed Chapter 2. 84%
• Where the Light Leads Completed Chapter 3. 75%
• Rapturous Recapture Received an S-rank after clearing a Recapture. 73%
• The Whiteshade Completed Chapter 4. 68%
• Elusive Evader Evaded 100 Speed Attacks. 64%
• Ticket to Walhalla Defeated 1,000 enemies in total. 64%
• Beacon of Reprisal Completed Chapter 5. 64%
• Long Winded Used Mana Sail 300 times. 63%
• Griegr-B-Gone Defeated 500 Griegr in total. 63%
• Deadly Duo Spent a total of 30 minutes in Duo Mode. 62%
• Armamented and Dangerous Used EX Armaments 100 times. 61%
• On Cloud Ten Raised the Morale Gauge to Level 10 during a Recapture. 61%
• Heavens' Mirror Completed Chapter 6. 60%
• Landlubber Traveled a total of 300 krimelye on land as Adol and Karja. 59%
• Obelian Odyssey Traveled a total of 1,000 krimelye aboard the Sandras. 59%
• Red Hair, Don't Care Adventured extensively as Adol. 59%
• Gulf Gallivanter Attained a Total Discovery Rate of 50%. 58%
• The Battle of Flumen Strait Completed Chapter 7. 58%
• Lila Completed Chapter 8. 58%
• The Waters of Creation Completed Chapter 9. 56%
• Deft Defender Performed 100 Perfect Guards. 55%
• The Normans' Paradise Lost Completed Chapter 10 and reached the Epilogue. 54%
• Champion of Carnac Rescued all Carnac's townsfolk. 52%
• Onboard Smörgåsbord Held a max-level Luncheon aboard the Sandras. 50%
• Mana Maniac Used 2,000 Mana Actions. 49%
• Fool Me Thrice... Defeated all 3 fake merchant ships. 47%
• Vermóðr of Mercy Defeated the ultimate Griegr, Vermóðr. 46%
• Reduce, Reuse, Recapture Completed all Recaptures. 46%
• Sunk Your Battleship Defeated 300 enemy ships and/or Barrier Pillars in total. 45%
• Potion Partaker Used 20 Liquid Medicines. 44%
• Pikk-Me-Up Gave Sache all available pikkards, completing your pikkard collection. 42%
• Light of the Soul Activated all 10 Mana Abilities of Valor, Mettle, or Optimism. 41%
• Runes with a View Logged all Saga entries in the Journal. 40%
• Go-To Guy & Gal Completed all Quests. 40%
• Can't Adventure on an Empty Stomach Ate 10 Box Lunches. 36%
• A-fish-ionado Logged all Fishing entries in the Journal. 36%
• Azure-Eye on the Prize Adventured extensively as Karja. 34%
• Depths of the Mind Reached the bottommost Release Line Depth. 31%
• No Hewnstone Unturned Attained a Total Discovery Rate of 100%. 31%
• Combat Connoisseur Logged all Battle entries in the Journal. 28%
• The Life Aquatic with Adol Christin Logged all Sea Life entries in the Journal. 27%
• Sandras Socialite Maxed out Affinity with all characters. 26%
• All Decked Out Implemented all Sandras refitting and training proposals. 26%
• Forge's Finest Fully enhanced your ultimate weapons and armor (2 of each). 23%
• Night of the Soul Activated all 10 Mana Abilities of Darkness. 22%
• Martial Master Reached a Skill Chain of 99. 16%
• Grin and Barrier It Spent a total of 30 minutes with Mana Barrier active. 14%
• Seashell Networker Logged all People entries in the Journal. 13%
• All la Carte Logged all Recipe entries in the Journal. 13%
• Night-Mariner Reached the Epilogue on Nightmare difficulty or harder. 11%
• Master of Nordics Finish "The Normans' Paradise Lost" by Adol Christin in its entirety by earning all achievements. 6.9%