Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China
Give it 4 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (50%); after 7h it's 1 in 7 (14%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised more than in 78% of games we track.
- 35% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Vengeance Begins” (Assassinate Gao Feng) and “The Assassin's Return” (Complete Assassin's Creed® Chronicles: China): from 100% to 35% of starters.
- Only 8% 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 3,939 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 8.8h for positive, 3.4h 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 (8.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Vengeance Begins Assassinate Gao Feng 100%
- The Assassin's Return Complete Assassin's Creed® Chronicles: China Most players quit here 35% −65
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (18)
story milestone ending side
- Vengeance Begins Assassinate Gao Feng 100%
- No Witnesses Assassinate 100 enemies 46%
- Low Blow Slide assassinate 25 enemies 37%
- The Assassin's Return Complete Assassin's Creed® Chronicles: China 35%
- Concubine Savior Save all the Concubines in Memory Sequence 9 33%
- Not A Scratch Assassinate all enemies in the ambush in Memory Sequence 8 without taking a single hit 30%
- The Invisible Woman Shadow Gold past 30 patrols 30%
- Now You See Me… Escape alerts 30 times 30%
- Clean Mind Hide 50 bodies 27%
- Faster Than The Flame Escape the burning port in under 5 minutes 24%
- Smash And Stab Kill 100 enemies in combat 17%
- Tell Me A Story Open all Scroll Chests 15%
- Master Of Stealth Complete Memory Sequence 11 without being seen 12%
- Shiny Collect all the Animus Shards 12%
- The Way It's Meant To Be Complete every memory in the Plus or Plus Hard Game Modes 11%
- Enemy Of My Enemy Inflict friendly fire from projectiles on 50 enemies 9.9%
- The Completionist Achieve the highest score and fastest time in each memory 9.9%
- I Fear No One Kill 100 enemies using the Helix Kill 8.6%