Blade and Sorcery
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 15h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 11% 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 62,779 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 14.5h for positive, 2.9h 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 (11.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (37)
story milestone ending side
- A Hunt for Power Start a Crystal Hunt campaign. 100%
- Jonathan Find the chicken. 66%
- The Fall of the Hekalis Defeated a Hekalis. 50%
- Permabanned Kill the Shopkeeper. 41%
- Becoming An Acolyte Merge a crystal core. 34%
- Hello mates! Find The Baron’s hat. 26%
- Sorcerer Blood Obtain a T3 Crystal Core. 23%
- Cult of Kospy Find the special bread sword. 19%
- Eraden Training Survive 10 rounds of Survival Mode. 18%
- Pride of Sakaryan Buy a Tier 4 weapon from the shop. 17%
- Is this… Treasure? Find a poo. 17%
- The Ring Reach the bottom of the well in Market. 14%
- Dark Messiah Dislodge the chandelier in Sanctuary. 13%
- The Smuggler’s Path Find the secret tunnels below the Citadel. 13%
- Leap of Faith Climb to the highest point of the Citadel. 12%
- Blade of Sentara Find the Sentari falchion. 12%
- Ten Thousand Years of Peace Sacrifice yourself to the planet. 12%
- Prepared for the Zorik Vamo-Rlin Buy a full set of Tier 3 armor in Crystal Hunt mode. 11%
- Monumental Waterfall Lever in the dalgarian waterfall room 11%
- A Worthy Arbiter Completed a path of sorcery. 9.8%
- Watery Grave Raise the water level in the Dalgarian waterfall room. 8.9%
- Hidden Passage Find the passage beneath the well 8.9%
- Sky Cell Found the unusual cell in Citadel. 7.1%
- Wildfolk Stamina Survive 50 rounds of Survival Mode. 7.1%
- The Ultimate Simulation Game Why did you try this?? 7.1%
- Your Destiny Awaits Doom the world to a calamity. 6.2%
- Dalgarian Spirit Complete an outpost without any enemies dying. 6.2%
- Carl Find the turtle. 5.4%
- Don’t disturb the Birds Find the bird’s nest in Home. 4.5%
- Scholar of Byeth Gather all the lore text hidden in the shop 4.5%
- Trailer Hero Fall down the chasm. 3.6%
- Cupbending Find the special cup. 3.6%
- Desperate Times Complete a dungeon occupied by The Eye with only T0 weaponry and armor. 2.7%
- The Free Rule Of The Sorcerer Blood Learn every sorcery in Crystal Hunt. 1.8%
- Master of the Four Southern Seas Buy every T4 weapon in Crystal Hunt. 1.8%
- Return of the Khemenet Complete Crystal Hunt on a character with Permadeath difficulty. 1.8%
- Nights of the Ten Thousand Years Acquire all trophies. 0.9%