Darksiders Genesis
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 15h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Most players drop off before “Mammon”: only 71% of starters get there.
- Only 40% 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 13,880 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 17.9h for positive, 7.1h 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 (39.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Mammon Defeat Mammon Lord of Hell. Most players quit here 71% −29
- Belial Defeat Belial Lord of Hell. 58% −13
- Astarte Defeat Astarte Fallen Angel. 57% −1
- Dagon Defeat Dagon Lord of Hell. 51% −5
- Moloch Defeat Moloch Lord of Hell. 47% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (30)
story milestone ending side
- Mint I Collect 50 Boatman Coins. 100%
- Mammon Defeat Mammon Lord of Hell. 71%
- Soul Cache Destroy all 4 Soul Caches in The Slag Pit. 70%
- Close the Rift Close the rift leaking void creatures in Icebind Cavern. 59%
- Belial Defeat Belial Lord of Hell. 58%
- Astarte Defeat Astarte Fallen Angel. 57%
- Dagon Defeat Dagon Lord of Hell. 51%
- Mint II Collect 200 Boatman Coins. 51%
- The Dead Court Defeat the Dread Lord's subjects in Decay. 50%
- Demolition Derby Destroy 10 structures in War Machine. 47%
- Master of War Learn all 3 of War's Wrath abilities. 47%
- Moloch Defeat Moloch Lord of Hell. 47%
- Master of Strife Learn all 3 of Strife's Wrath abilities. 46%
- Infested Defeat the grub queen in The Maelstrom. 43%
- A Bullet for All Seasons Find all 5 of Strife's elemental ammo types. 38%
- Walking Armory Find all 5 of War's elemental enhancements. 37%
- Good Deeds Save the uncorrupted angels in Bastion's Fall 36%
- Mint III Collect 350 Boatman Coins. 30%
- Hell's Forge Gather all the ingots in the Inferno Vault and take them to Hell's Forge. 30%
- Ready to Blow Destroy all 12 of Moloch's supply caches in War Machine. 28%
- Why'd It Have to Be Snakes? Defeat every snake in Decay. 28%
- Gatekeeper Unlock every Trickster Door. 24%
- Wicked Killington Face the Trickster himself Wicked Killington. 23%
- Are You Not Entertained? Achieve a score of 70000 or higher in the arena. 15%
- Respect For Animals Defeat less than 5 hounds before killing the Houndmaster in The Horde. 12%
- Collector Collect every type of creature core. 11%
- Full of Hell Complete all 17 levels on Hard difficulty. 10%
- Garden of Forking Paths Collect every Boatman Coin in the Boatman's Labyrinth. 9.4%
- Blademaster Defeat Moloch without taking damage. 7.6%
- The Promised End Complete all 17 levels on Apocalyptic difficulty. 7.3%