Reigns
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (19%); after 3h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 75% of games we track.
- At least 18% of players who start reach the ending.
- Only 66% 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 8,151 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 4.8h for positive, 2.8h 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 (65.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The End n°1 Trapped in an endless middle-age ≥18% −82
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (13)
story milestone ending side
- Shooting star Govern less than 3 years 100%
- Elder Govern more than 50 years 65%
- All the characters Meet all the characters 30%
- Millenium Reach year 2000 25%
- The End n°1 Trapped in an endless middle-age 18%
- Duelist Beat the skeleton more than 5 times in a row 14%
- The End n°2 Rot in hell for eternity 8.2%
- Mummy Govern more than 100 years 6.6%
- True pacifist Do not fulfill the Death wish 6.1%
- Hecatomb Suffer more than a 100 deaths 5.3%
- The End n°3 Trick the Devil 4.7%
- All the cards Read all the cards 3.8%
- All the deaths Suffer all the deaths 2.0%