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Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 57% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,657
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (18%); after 3h it's 1 in 12 (8%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 77% of games we track.
- Only 57% 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 1,686 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 2.4h for positive, 1.4h 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 (56.8% 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 (40)
- THE TALE OF TWO TWINS Played the Prologue to the end. 100%
- BLADE COUNTERATTACK Used the Blade to knock a direct attack from Asymptote Void back in Chapter 5. 57%
- TORNADO Destroyed 100 enemies and their attacks using a Spin EX Attack. 38%
- SUNSHINE Destroyed a boss using an EX Attack. 35%
- AT FULL THROTTLE Used the Wild EX Attack 10 times. 35%
- NEVER GIVE UP Continued 5 times. 34%
- TOO MUCH DESTRUCTION Destroyed 30 of Dux's batteries in Chapter 4. 29%
- MULTI LOCK ON Locked onto 50 targets at the same time. 29%
- EX COUNTERATTACK Used an EX Attack to knock a direct attack from Asymptote Void back in Chapter 5. 25%
- GET READY All the Tutorials have been viewed. 23%
- TO ALTER THE FUTURE Cleared the game on the Normal Difficulty. 21%
- COMPLETE FLEET DESTRUCTION Destroyed the entire enemy fleet in Chapter 3. 20%
- TO ALTER REALITY Cleared the game on the Easy Difficulty. 17%
- GOOD SNIPER Reached a total Lock Level of 30,000. 15%
- BREAKTHROUGH Used a Blade Dash attack to get a x16 multiplier ten times in total. 14%
- LISTEN TO HER Destroyed Asymptote Esto in Chapter 2 swiftly. 9.7%
- ANALYSIS COMPLETE Saw every attack pattern used by Asymptote Esto in Chapter 3. 9.0%
- HIGH SCORER Reached a total score of 100,000,000pts. 8.5%
- WITHOUT DEATH Cleared the game on the Easy Difficulty without using continues. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 8.3%
- FAIRY THE RIPPER Used Blade to destroy 20,000 enemies and their attacks. 7.2%
- LIGHTNING Used a Dash EX attack to get a x16 multiplier 30 times in total. 7.2%
- BRUTE FORCE Destroyed Dux's outer shell in Chapter 4 by only attacking from the outside. 6.9%
- NICE SCORING Earned 500,000 pts by using an EX Attack. 6.0%
- HASTY All demo scenes have been skipped. 4.8%
- LOCUS OF LIGHT Used Shot to destroy 20,000 enemies and their attacks. 4.4%
- SLENDER Destroyed Asymptote Void and all its parts in Chapter 5. 4.2%
- COMPLETE ALL Cleared the game on the Normal Difficulty without using continues. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 4.0%
- WITHOUT ARMS Destroyed Agnesi in Chapter 1 but kept its arms intact. 3.2%
- TO ALTER THE WORLD Cleared the game on the Hard Difficulty. 3.0%
- PERFECT GAME Cleared a chapter on the Easy Difficulty without taking damage. 3.0%
- GOOD JOB Cleared the game on the Easy Difficulty with less than 50,000 damage taken in total. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 2.8%
- PERFECT PLAYING Cleared a chapter on the Normal Difficulty without taking damage. 2.6%
- HARD TO HIT Avoided all of the Lucis capture attacks in Chapter 5. 2.6%
- HIGHER SCORER Reached a total score of 300,000,000pts. 2.5%
- MISSION COMPLETED Cleared the game with all mecha on all Difficulties. 1.9%
- BEYOND ASYMPTOTE Destroyed Queen System in Chapter 6 without taking any damage. 1.9%
- WELL DONE Cleared the game on the Normal Difficulty with less than 50,000 damage taken in total. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 1.9%
- GAME MASTER Cleared the game on the Hard Difficulty without using continues. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 1.9%
- INVINCIBLE Cleared a chapter on the Hard Difficulty without taking damage. 1.9%
- SUPERHUMAN Cleared the game on the Hard Difficulty with less than 50,000 damage taken in total. (Chapter Select is not allowed.) 1.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.