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The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 1,297
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (24%); after 4h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- 92% 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 1,314 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 6.5h for positive, 2.6h 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 (92% 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 (24)
- Mother's Blessing Pray to the Mother. 100%
- Phoenix Downed Die and be revived for the first time. 97%
- My Condolences After death, find your ghost and pray to it. 95%
- Endless Pilgrimage Travel 1,000 meters. (accumulated) 95%
- Resourceful Kill Use an enemy's dropped weapon to kill another enemy. 74%
- Eagle Eye Land 250 gunshots. (accumulated) 65%
- To The Last Bullet Reload 100 times. (accumulated) 55%
- Failed Basic Training Try to fire your weapon without first reloading it. 54%
- Altair's End Defeat the first boss. 50%
- Savior of Light Rescue an ally Light Brigade soldier out on a run. 50%
- Penny Pincher Hold onto 1,000 coins at once during a run. 32%
- Agnes Absolved Defeat the second boss. 31%
- Ironically Sniped Kill an enemy sniper from far away. 31%
- Sharpshooter Land 250 headshots. (accumulated) 28%
- Spendthrift Spend 1,000 gold at a store. 28%
- Cocked & Loaded Cock an ally Light Brigade soldier's rifle. 20%
- Forgive Me, Father Defeat the Father. 18%
- The First Journey Finish your first run, start to finish. 18%
- Ironically Bombed Kill an enemy bomber using a grenade. 15%
- Hypnotic Kill Have a hypnotized enemy kill another enemy. 11%
- Final Wish Use the wishing well. 8.8%
- Ironically Spelled Kill an enemy priest using magic. 8.7%
- Perfect Shot Every single shot during a fully completed run is a headshot. 0.7%
- Steady Hands Never miss a shot during a fully completed run. 0.7%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.