One Step From Eden
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (28%); after 10h it's 1 in 45 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- At least 55% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “One Step From Eden” (Reach the Gate): only 56% of starters get there.
- Only 37% 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 7,760 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 15.9h 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 (37.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- One Step From Eden Reach the Gate Most players quit here 56% −44
- Happily Ever After Spare Terrable ≥55% −1
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 (35)
story milestone ending side
- Desecration Destroy a Self Defense hazard 100%
- Arch Sage Have a spell from every Focus in your deck 78%
- Calamity Get a Calamity spell 69%
- Nerf This Defeat tier 4 Gunner 68%
- Disguised Toast Cast 10 Jams in one battle 67%
- Unbreakable Defeat tier 4 Terra 66%
- Reverse Engineering Defeat tier 4 Hazel 65%
- Gun Control Defeat tier 4 Shiso 62%
- Silence is Golden Defeat tier 4 Violette 60%
- One Step From Eden Reach the Gate 56%
- Happily Ever After Spare Terrable 55%
- Not Even Close Baby Win a boss fight with 1 HP 55%
- White Knight Defeat tier 4 Reva 52%
- Cold, Dead Hands Defeat tier 4 Selicy 51%
- Charlotte Defeat tier 4 Saffron 51%
- Knife to a Gunfight Kill Gunner or Shiso with a Slashfik spell 40%
- Plausible Deniability Win a battle without using a Spell or Weapon 29%
- Terrable Execute Terrable 26%
- Solo Have 1 Spell in your deck 25%
- Back to the Past Beat Serif and get sent back 24%
- Eggs in a Basket Upgrade the same spell 4 times 22%
- Terraform Have at least 16 broken tiles at the same time 22%
- Cannibal Kill a hostage with the Devour spell 19%
- Sans-Serif Execute Serif 19%
- Eat the Rich Defeat tier 4 Shopkeeper 18%
- Buzzer Beater Kill the last enemy with the Fadeaway spell 16%
- Hoarder Have over 200 cardtridges in your deck 14%
- Absolute Zero Have 0 Max Mana 13%
- The Best Defense Have over 9,999 Shield 13%
- Soulless Have 8 pacts at the same time 11%
- Bravely Default Beat the game without taking any spells 9.1%
- All For One Beat the game with every character 8.8%
- Watch the World Burn Cover the entire field in flames 6.4%
- Ascetic Beat the game without collecting any Artifacts 5.6%
- One Shot Beat Hell Mode 14 4.3%