Adventure
King's Quest
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 47% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 3,022
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 7h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- The biggest drop-off is between “The End?” (Told the Story about becoming a Knight) and “The Reign is Just Beginning” (Completed Chapter 2): from 78% to 42% of starters.
- Only 47% 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 3,043 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 13.7h for positive, 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 (47.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The End? Told the Story about becoming a Knight. 78% −22
- The Reign is Just Beginning Completed Chapter 2. Most players quit here 42% −36
- And They Lived... Completed Chapter 3 36% −6
- #1 Daventry Dad Completed Chapter 4. 29% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (53)
story milestone ending side
- That's the Ticket Presented an Eye to enter the Tournament. 100%
- Strong Minded Defeated Acorn in the Duel of Strength. 81%
- Fast Feather Defeated Whisper in the Duel of Speed. 80%
- The End? Told the Story about becoming a Knight. 78%
- Distressed Out Got some air. 57%
- Medicinal Majesty Healed Bramble. 44%
- Rubble Yell Escaped the goblin prison. 42%
- The Reign is Just Beginning Completed Chapter 2. 42%
- Napping on the Job Took a Brief Nap. 41%
- The King is in a Cent Found all gold in Chapter 2. 40%
- Girls in the Tower This tower was built to scale. 39%
- Froggy Throat Tried to Catch a Toad, Got a Frog in Throat. 37%
- Moral Quarreler Won a game of Moral Quarrel. 36%
- And They Lived... Completed Chapter 3 36%
- In The Mouth of Danger Walk into a Dragon's Mouth. 35%
- Wedzel Wolf Watch Waiver Spared the life of a Wedzel Wolf. 34%
- Gears of Shore Solved a puzzle on the beach. 33%
- Line Stepper Solved the first Ice Palace puzzle. 33%
- Road Trip Warrior Won the road trip game. 31%
- Labyrinth Legend Solved the Ice Labyrinth. 31%
- Ice Shaver Shot an arrow at an Ice Guard. 30%
- Helping Hat Saved a Picnic, Got a Wedzel Patch, Completed the Potion. 29%
- #1 Daventry Dad Completed Chapter 4. 29%
- Golden-Ager Graham Sought treasure as an aged adventurer. 29%
- Staring Superstar Lasted as long as I could in the staring contest. 29%
- Music Minded Remembered a forgotten tune. 28%
- Escaped Elder Escaped the Tournament Theater. 26%
- Quick Minded Proved your mind is still quick. 26%
- Still Strong Minded Proved your mind is still strong. 26%
- Papa Puzzler Defeated all the puzzles on The Floating Island. 26%
- Cell-ebration! Escaped without any townspeople taken away. 24%
- A Secret Entrance Found a Mysterious Cave Entrance. 24%
- Misteak Fed a steak to a Wedzel Wolf. 24%
- Dancing Dead Tickled the ivories of a bone xylophone. 23%
- A Prickly Situation Walked into the Spiniferous Thornweeds. 23%
- Harmonious Husband Gave the perfect present to Neese. 23%
- Treasure Trolled Honored the bridges of the past. 22%
- Teenaged Townspeople Discovered 3 portraits of younger townspeople. 17%
- Perfect Puzzle Partner Gave the perfect present to Vee. 17%
- Unicorn Snack Food Was a Snack for a Majestic Unicorn. 15%
- Horn Blower Blew on many Horns. 13%
- Opening Knight Open door to Achaka three times. 12%
- Graham the Basilisk Walked on Water. 11%
- Dead End Dancer Danced in the Dark. 11%
- The Lost Unicorn Reunited two best friends. 9.3%
- Raisin the Dead Found some very old pastries. 9.3%
- A Royal Pain in the Rear Tummy troubles. 9.1%
- Purple Badger Don't Care A Dyed Badger ate Bees. 8.6%
- Booked Em Found all pages in Chapter 2. 7.0%
- A Poisonous Snake! Watch out, Graham! 7.0%
- Pestering Padre Pestered the Prince. 6.5%
- Disobedient Dad Don't make me turn this story around! 4.6%
- Fostering Father Heard everything Alexander had to say. 4.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.