ActionFree To PlayIndieEarly Access
Ember Strike
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 75% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 1,005
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 5h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 75% of owners got the first achievement.
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 1,003 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 7 reviews: 40.4h for positive, 3h 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 (75.1% 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 (15)
- Journey Begins Learn to fight! 100%
- Party Time Fight with two minions! 93%
- Defeat Agnar Convince Agnar to join your team! 85%
- Pumping Iron Train a minion to level 3! 64%
- Full Power Get your fifth minion! 48%
- All Together Train a party to level 3! 43%
- Mini Boss Beat the mini boss to unlock PVP! 41%
- PVP Time Win your first PVP match! 31%
- Boss - Fang Defeat Fang and save the Village! 16%
- Well Trained Train a party to level 10! 16%
- King of the Seas! Win a PVP match with Fang! 7.1%
- Mini Boss - Berserker Beat the raging orc! 3.2%
- Boss - Chairman Bao Defeat Chairman Bao and save the valley! 0.9%
- Mini Boss - Little Hands Beat Chief Little Hands! 0.3%
- Boss - The Conjurer Defeat the Conjurer! 0.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.