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Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 28% of players who started
Started playing 31% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 3,722
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 35h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- 28% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Soothing Warmth” (Visited Kuldahar) and “Eye of the Dragon” (Visited Dragon's Eye): from 100% to 72% of starters.
- Only 31% 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 3,740 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 32.1h for positive, 17.7h 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 (31.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Soothing Warmth Visited Kuldahar. 100%
- Eye of the Dragon Visited Dragon's Eye. Most players quit here 72% −28
- The Towering Ruin Visited the Severed Hand. 55% −17
- Echoes from the Deep Visited Dorn's Deep. 48% −7
- The Glistening Glacier Visited Wyrm's Tooth Glacier. 45% −3
- Lich Slayer Killed Terikan, the Lich. 45%
- Giant Slayer Killed Joril, the leader of the Frost Giants. 38% −7
- The Final Resting Place Visited the Burial Isle. 29% −9
- Fiend Slayer Killed Belhifet. 28% −1
- Savior of the Ten Towns Completed Icewind Dale. 28%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (50)
story milestone ending side
- Soothing Warmth Visited Kuldahar. 100%
- Eye of the Dragon Visited Dragon's Eye. 72%
- The Towering Ruin Visited the Severed Hand. 55%
- Demon Slayer Killed Yxunomei, the Marilith demoness. 55%
- Destroyer Killed 1,000 creatures. 53%
- Grand Master Obtain Grand Master weapon proficiency level. 49%
- Echoes from the Deep Visited Dorn's Deep. 48%
- The Glistening Glacier Visited Wyrm's Tooth Glacier. 45%
- Lich Slayer Killed Terikan, the Lich. 45%
- The Unseemly Relic Found Pale Justice, the Holy Avenger sword. 43%
- Giant Slayer Killed Joril, the leader of the Frost Giants. 38%
- Liberator Freed all slaves in the Wyrm's Tooth glacier. 37%
- Black Swan Acquired the Black Swan Armor. 37%
- Company of Champions Have six party members who are good-aligned. 36%
- Coldest Winter Revisited Easthaven. 35%
- Allurement Visited the ruined castle in the Anauroch desert. 32%
- Juggernaut Reach 150 Hit Points. 31%
- The Reborn Blade Acquired the Restored Blade of Aihonen. 29%
- The Final Resting Place Visited the Burial Isle. 29%
- Savior of the Ten Towns Completed Icewind Dale. 28%
- Fiend Slayer Killed Belhifet. 28%
- The Gloomy Mountain Visited Gloomfrost. 25%
- The Frozen Sea Visited the Sea of Moving Ice. 23%
- The Secret Garden Restored the Arboretum to its former glory. 22%
- Hero of the Frozen North Completed Heart of Winter. 22%
- Infernally Vexed Acquired the infernal Vexed Armor. 21%
- Dragon Slayer Killed Icasaracht, the White Dragon matriarch. 21%
- Cold Fury Assisted the dwarven smith Tiernon to forge an ice weapon. 20%
- Song of the Sea Sang to the Sea Spirit Elisia. 18%
- Resisted the Lure Completed Trials of the Luremaster. 18%
- Untouchable Reduce Armor Class to -15 or lower. 18%
- Glacial Efflorescence Brought a rose of ice to the bard, Murdaugh. 17%
- Loremaster Obtain a Lore skill of 100 or more. 16%
- The Lone Wolf Discovered the true identity of the Lonelywood werewolf. 16%
- Godlike Increase an attribute score to 25. 15%
- Oathbreaker Become a Fallen Paladin or a Fallen Ranger. 10%
- The Singing Blade Acquired the Singing Blade of Aihonen. 9.9%
- Order of Guardians Have six party members who are neutral-aligned. 9.6%
- Epic Warrior Reach level 30 with a Fighter, Ranger, Paladin, Monk, or Barbarian. 9.2%
- Band of Villains Have six party members who are evil-aligned. 8.9%
- The Raging Mage Memorized Malavon's Rage. 8.6%
- Constructed Betrayal Turned Malavon's Iron Golems against him. 8.0%
- Epic Rogue Reach level 30 with a Thief or Bard. 6.4%
- Epic Mage Reach level 30 with a Mage or Sorcerer. 6.1%
- Epic Priest Reach level 30 with a Cleric, Druid, or Shaman. 5.4%
- Living Legend Reach level 30 in two classes with the same character. 5.1%
- Flying Solo Complete the game with only a single party member. 4.8%
- Ultimate Warrior Reach level 30 in three classes with the same character. 4.5%
- Storyteller Complete the game on the Story Mode difficulty setting. 4.1%
- Master Tactician Complete the game on the Heart of Fury difficulty setting. 2.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.