Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 12 reviews are negative (8%); after 20h it's 1 in 65 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised less than in 93% of games we track.
- 14% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Rise from the Ashes” (Clear Ep. 5 of PW: AA) and “A Lawyer Only Cries Once It's All Over ” (Clear all of PW: AA Trilogy): from 32% to 14% of starters.
- 95% of owners got the first achievement.
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 45,710 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 31.3h for positive, 21.9h 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 (95.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The First Turnabout Clear Ep. 1 of PW: AA. 91% −9
- Turnabout Sisters Clear Ep. 2 of PW: AA. 74% −18
- Turnabout Samurai Clear Ep. 3 of PW: AA. 56% −18
- Turnabout Goodbyes Clear Ep. 4 of PW: AA. 46% −10
- Rise from the Ashes Clear Ep. 5 of PW: AA. 32% −14
- A Lawyer Only Cries Once It's All Over Clear all of PW: AA Trilogy. Most players quit here 14% −18
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
- First Steps Start playing PW: AA Trilogy. 100%
- The First Turnabout Clear Ep. 1 of PW: AA. 91%
- Turnabout Sisters Clear Ep. 2 of PW: AA. 74%
- Turnabout Samurai Clear Ep. 3 of PW: AA. 56%
- Turnabout Goodbyes Clear Ep. 4 of PW: AA. 46%
- The Lost Turnabout Clear Ep. 1 of PW: AA - JFA. 33%
- Rise from the Ashes Clear Ep. 5 of PW: AA. 32%
- Mind Your Own Business, Pal! Press Gumshoe about "they were even talking about marriage." (JFA, Ep. 1) 29%
- Reunion, and Turnabout Clear Ep. 2 of PW: AA - JFA. 28%
- Turnabout Big Top Clear Ep. 3 of PW: AA - JFA. 25%
- Secret Weapons Three Borrow all of Gumshoe's secret weapons. (PW: AA, Ep. 4) 25%
- Turnabout Memories Clear Ep. 1 of PW: AA - T&T. 22%
- Farewell, My Turnabout Clear Ep. 4 of PW: AA - JFA. 21%
- Judge Wackner Press Oldbag's claim that "it was the Nickel Samurai that I saw!" (JFA, Ep. 4) 19%
- Beware, Your Honor! Press Dahlia's claim that "Feenie pushed him twice." (T&T, Ep. 1) 19%
- The Stolen Turnabout Clear Ep. 2 of PW: AA - T&T. 18%
- Recipe for Turnabout Clear Ep. 3 of PW: AA - T&T. 17%
- Turnabout Beginnings Clear Ep. 4 of PW: AA - T&T. 16%
- Bridge to the Turnabout Clear Ep. 5 of PW: AA - T&T. 15%
- Smells Like Oldbag Examine everything with even a whiff of Oldbag on it. (T&T, Ep. 2) 14%
- A Lawyer Only Cries Once It's All Over Clear all of PW: AA Trilogy. 14%
- Please Turn In Your Badge Answer "Mia Fey" when asked who the defendant is. (PW: AA, Ep. 1) 12%
- Violetta's Home-Made Donuts Get a donut offered to Phoenix by Viola. (T&T, Ep. 3) 11%
- Justice Ill Served Get the bad ending in PW: AA - Justice For All. (JFA, Ep. 4) 11%
- Um, Lotta Hair, Was It? Reply with "Lotta Hair" when talking to Lotta. (JFA, Ep. 2) 8.8%
- Naruhodo A. Wrighto Present Max's profile to Maya. (JFA, Ep. 3) 8.6%
- Ladders Vs. Step-Ladders Get every ladder vs. step-ladder conversation in PW: AA Trilogy. 7.9%
- I Hate Childhood Friends As Edgeworth, hear all of his and Larry's childhood tales. (T&T, Ep. 5) 6.1%
- Lunchbox Specialist Check out every lunchbox Angel Starr has to offer. (PW: AA, Ep. 5) 4.3%
- Jean's Foreign Language Course Learn all of Armstrong's fancy foreign words. (T&T, Ep. 3) 3.4%