Darksiders™
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 20h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- 23% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Prison Break” (Free Samael from his prison) and “Like A Bat Outta Hell” (Defeat Tiamat): from 83% to 47% of starters.
- Only 61% 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 12,937 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 19.5h for positive, 6.2h 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 (61.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Death Dealer Meet Vulgrim 100%
- To Move A Mountain Collect the Earthcaller 94% −6
- Prison Break Free Samael from his prison 83% −11
- Like A Bat Outta Hell Defeat Tiamat Most players quit here 47% −36
- One Tough Cookie Meet Ulthane 45% −2
- Rocked Your Face Off Defeat The Griever 40% −4
- Ashes to Ashes Defeat The Stygian 36% −5
- One Mean Mother Defeat Silitha 33% −3
- Payback's A B**** Defeat Straga 28% −5
- The Final Challenger Defeat The Destroyer 23% −5
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Death Dealer Meet Vulgrim 100%
- To Move A Mountain Collect the Earthcaller 94%
- Prison Break Free Samael from his prison 83%
- Chasm Jumper Gain the Shadowflight Ability 83%
- Reaper Collect The Scythe 66%
- Elemental Thief Collect the Crossblade 61%
- Slayer Kill 666 Demons 47%
- Like A Bat Outta Hell Defeat Tiamat 47%
- Don't Make Me Angry Collect the Chaos Form Ability 46%
- One Tough Cookie Meet Ulthane 45%
- Tremor Bringer Collect the Tremor Gauntlet 43%
- Who's Counting Defeating more Angels than Ulthane 43%
- An Old Friend Collect Mercy 40%
- Rocked Your Face Off Defeat The Griever 40%
- Time Lapse Gain the Chronomancer Ability 39%
- High Flier Kill 5 duskbats without touching the ground 38%
- Reunited Obtain Ruin 37%
- Ashes to Ashes Defeat The Stygian 36%
- River of Blood Shed 3000 gallons of demon blood 35%
- Reach Out & Touch Somebody Collect the Abyssal Chain 35%
- One Mean Mother Defeat Silitha 33%
- Into The Void Collect the Voidwalker 32%
- Treasure Hunter Search 150 chests 31%
- Payback's A B**** Defeat Straga 28%
- Sight Beyond Sight Collect the Mask of Shadows 28%
- Ultimate Blade Forge the Armageddon Blade 25%
- The Final Challenger Defeat The Destroyer 23%
- You Call That Easy? Complete the game on EASY 23%
- Balance Restored Defeat the game on NORMAL 19%
- Wrath Machine Collect all the Wrath Powers 18%
- Legendary Form Collect the Abyssal Armor Set 13%
- Aerial Predator Kill 160 enemies while on the angelic beast 8.2%
- Devastator Kill 10 enemies with one Blade Geyser wrath attack 8.0%
- World Raider Collect All 27 Artifacts 7.0%
- Open Air Parking Take out a helicopter with a car during the apocalypse 6.7%
- A True Horseman Defeat the game on APOCALYPTIC 6.5%
- Full Power Collect the maximum amount of lifestones 6.4%
- Horseman Kill 150 Demons from horseback 5.7%
- Battle Hardened Max out all weapons and unlock all combat moves 5.4%
- Wrath of War Collect the maximum amount of wrath cores 5.4%
- Improvised Kills Kill 150 enemies with items from the environment 4.7%
- Dark Rider Ride for 100 miles 4.4%
- BFA Unlocked Everything 4.2%