FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS

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 692 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 32.4h for positive, 44h 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 (69% 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 (50)

• The Very First Step Began Ceodore's Tale. 100%
• A History of Violence Defeat 100 enemies. 70%
• Penny Pincher Save up 10,000 gil. 53%
• The Last of the Red Wings Completed Ceodore's Tale. 52%
• B.F.F. Raise a band ability to the maximum level. 42%
• Don't Cry Over Spilt Blood Defeat 500 enemies. 42%
• The Eidolons Shackled Completed Rydia's Tale. 36%
• The Master of Fabul Completed Yang's Tale. 35%
• Public Enemy Defeat 1,000 enemies. 34%
• Taming the Wild Complete 30% of the Bestiary. 33%
• The Mage's Voyage Completed Palom's Tale. 32%
• The Pulse of Babil Completed Edge's Tale. 31%
• The Vanished Lunar Whale Completed Porom's Tale 30%
• Money Grubber Save up 50,000 gil. 30%
• Star-Crossed Damcyan Completed Edward's Tale. 29%
• Return of the Dragoon Completed Kain's Tale. 27%
• Hear the Lamentations Defeat 2,000 enemies. 27%
• The Point of No Return Complete 60% of the Bestiary. 27%
• The Blue Planet That Was Completed the Lunarians' Tale. 26%
• High Roller Save up 200,000 gil. 25%
• Rags to Riches Save up 500,000 gil. 23%
• I Choose You! Obtain all non-hidden Eidolons. 18%
• Crystal Savior Completed the Crystals. 16%
• It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This Obtained a piece of adamant armor. 16%
• To the Moon and Back Obtained Ragnarok. 15%
• Bodacious Aegis Obtained Hero's Shield. 13%
• Twofer Learn Dualcast. 13%
• Birds of a Feather Learn 40 different band abilities. 12%
• This Is a Knife Obtained Ultima Weapon. 11%
• Made to Be Broken Trade a rainbow tail for a Limit Ring. 10%
• A Tale to Tell Complete 100% of a Tale's Bestiary. 9.0%
• Starstruck Trade a black tail for Twin Stars. 8.6%
• All Grown Up Reach level 30 with all characters. 8.3%
• Affect of the Exotic Trade a green tail for a Rare Band. 8.1%
• Quick Learner Trade a red tail for a Level Band. 7.1%
• Get Rich or Die Tryin' Trade a gold tail for a Gil Band V2. 7.1%
• True Blue Trade a blue tail for Blue Armor. 7.0%
• One Man's Trash Trade a purple tail for Treasure Hunter V2. 6.8%
• Mid-Life Crisis Reach level 50 with all characters. 6.8%
• With a Quickness Trade a white tail for a Rapid Ring V2. 6.7%
• Cool Kids Sit in the Back Trade a gray tail for a Reach Ring. 6.7%
• Come At Me, Bro Trade an ebony tail for a Provoke Ring. 6.7%
• Pretty in Pink Trade a pink tail for Pink Armor. 6.4%
• Over the Hill Reach level 70 with all characters. 6.4%
• I Read It for the Articles Collected every Lustful Lali-Ho. 6.4%
• Strength in Numbers Learn all band abilities. 5.8%
• Say Hello to My Little Friends Obtain all Eidolons. 5.7%
• Me and My Homies Raise all band abilities to the maximum level. 5.5%
• Beast Master Complete 100% of the Bestiary. 5.2%
• Been There, Done That Complete every achievement. 5.1%