The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd
Hooks you right away
What the data shows
- 95% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 20+ hours (96%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 97% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 75% of players who start reach the ending.
- 83% 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 2,633 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 44.7h for positive, 27.3h 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 (82.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Gralsritter Complete the Prologue. 100%
- Phantasma Complete Chapter 1. 96% −4
- The Otherworldly Capital Complete Chapter 2. Most players quit here 91% −5
- Golden Road, Silver Road Complete Chapter 3. 89% −2
- The Dark Stigma Complete Chapter 4. 86% −3
- Labyrinth of Shadows and Light Complete Chapter 5. 84% −2
- The Guardians' Trials Complete Chapter 6. 80% −4
- The Distant Flames Complete Chapter 7. 80%
- The Future We Dream Of Complete Chapter 8. 75% −5
- Easy Peasy Finish the game on Easy or above. 75%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (26)
story milestone ending side
- The Gralsritter Complete the Prologue. 100%
- Phantasma Complete Chapter 1. 96%
- The Otherworldly Capital Complete Chapter 2. 91%
- Golden Road, Silver Road Complete Chapter 3. 89%
- The Dark Stigma Complete Chapter 4. 86%
- Labyrinth of Shadows and Light Complete Chapter 5. 84%
- The Guardians' Trials Complete Chapter 6. 80%
- The Distant Flames Complete Chapter 7. 80%
- The Future We Dream Of Complete Chapter 8. 75%
- Easy Peasy Finish the game on Easy or above. 75%
- Straight and Narrow Finish the game on Normal or above. 64%
- Tempting Fate Defeat all Abyss fiends. 61%
- Honeymoon Complete all Moon Doors. 59%
- Minigame Madness Complete all minigames on any difficulty. 58%
- Starry-Eyed Complete all Star Doors. 56%
- Sunny Days Complete all Sun Doors. 49%
- You Know Too Much Complete "Who Wants to Be a Mirannaire?" Maniac mode. 42%
- Sidetracked Chest-Tracker Carefully examine nearly every chest that you come across before the final chapter. 39%
- Please Erase My Memories Read a book you wish you hadn't... 31%
- Bookworm Read all of the books in the Garden. 19%
- Proud Powerhouse Finish the game on Hard or above. 16%
- Fierce Fighter Obtain a special quartz from brave deeds. 15%
- Flighty Fighter Obtain a special quartz from cowardly deeds. 11%
- The Dadliest Beat the ultimate opponent on the highest difficulty. 8.8%
- Farewell, My Nightmares Complete the Farewall Arena on Nightmare. 8.8%
- Only In Your Dreams Finish the game on Nightmare. 8.3%