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Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 60% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 547
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 15h it's almost 1 in 20 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 60% 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 547 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 14h for positive, 6.9h 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 (60% 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 (27)
- The Beginning of the End Complete the Prologue 100%
- A Breath Away From Hell Defeat the Greater Bolgia. 61%
- Scorn the Sorrows Defeat the Triplets. 51%
- Skill Mastery Fully upgrade a skill. 47%
- Curator Defeat the Antiquarian. 45%
- Breathe It In Defeat the Saltbreather. 41%
- Mother Knows Best Defeat the Matron. 38%
- This Is Not Our War Defeat the Ancient Feravaro. 35%
- Ed...ward... Defeat the Chimera. 32%
- The Abyss Gazes Back Defeat the Mangiatore. 31%
- Trial by Fire Win the duel. 30%
- Smoke and Mirrors Defeat the Ridiro Queen. 30%
- I Am The Law! Defeat the Brehon. 29%
- A Hero and a Martyr Clear the final battle. 28%
- Songs and Shadows Watch the Epilogue. 28%
- Old Friends Listen to all of Leventhos' optional dialogues. 27%
- Tag Team Tactics Trigger 250 Elemental Tags. 27%
- Bright Chorus Listen to all of Tiziana's optional dialogues. 24%
- Cicero's Sigh Respec once. 24%
- Those Who Came Before Listen to all of Amadea's optional dialogues. 24%
- Smooth Talker Listen to all of Vasco's optional dialogues. 23%
- Hard Worker Practice in the Training Grounds. 23%
- Light in the Mire Listen to all of Kalden's optional dialogues. 23%
- Time Traveler Revisit a scene. 15%
- Masquerada Activate 100 Mask abilities. 9.5%
- Collectivist Collect all inks and runes. 7.7%
- Well-read Collect all the codices. 5.2%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.