Avadon: The Black Fortress

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 621 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 40.6h for positive, 11.6h 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 (40.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (30)

• Your New Employer Meet Redbeard. 100%
• Irritable Reptile Calm the dragon Zhethron. For the first time. 53%
• Wall Spots Found a secret door. 51%
• Tested By Fire Get your main character to level 10. 38%
• Shadow of the Woods Hunted down the Shadow Beast. 36%
• Don't Taunt Dragons Showed the ogres just how foolish they were. 31%
• Anvil Apprentice Augment ten items. 24%
• Peace Within the Pact Show that Holklandans and the Kellem can work together. 23%
• True Power Get your main character to level 20. 23%
• Pay Your Respects Locate the crypt of the Keepers. 22%
• Experiments Concluded Purged a tower of its unspeakable experiments. 21%
• Big, Bigger, and Biggest Eliminate the threat to the Kva. 19%
• Lone Justice Cleansed the Beraza Woods of bandits. 17%
• Avadon's Gaze In the Farlands, no foe of the Pact can be left standing. 15%
• Back In the Fold Bring all four of your allies back to Avadon. 15%
• Quality of Your Enemies Fight your way back into the castle. 14%
• Perfection Achieved Get your main character to level 30. 13%
• Hand of Avadon Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Normal difficulty or higher. 9.1%
• Employee of the Month Prove your loyalty to Redbeard. 8.6%
• Leave Them Where They Lie Reach the endgame without ever using a Resurrection scroll. (Normal difficulty or higher.) 5.7%
• Craftmaster Augment 50 items. 5.4%
• Well-Read Find all codex entries. 5.4%
• Big Game Hunt down the greatest prey. (Normal difficulty or higher.) 3.9%
• Eye of Avadon Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Hard difficulty or higher. 3.9%
• Terminal Insubordination Claim Avadon for your own. (Normal difficulty or higher.) 3.9%
• Nathalie Will Be Pleased Send Beloch the Scourge back where it came from. (Hard difficulty or higher.) 3.7%
• Without a Scratch Reach Castle Vebeaux without one of your characters ever going unconscious. (Hard difficulty or higher.) 3.7%
• Heart of Avadon Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Torment difficulty. 3.2%
• Take Only What You Need Reach the endgame and never have more than one character beside yourself in your party. (Normal difficulty or higher.) 3.2%
• Don't Bug Me With Your Issues! Reach the endgame without ever making one of your companions happy. (Normal difficulty or higher.) 2.9%