The Plucky Squire
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 7h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- 32% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Powerful Puncher” (Defeat the Honey Badger in a boxing match) and “Metal Warrior” (Defeat the Mega Eagle): from 100% to 40% of starters.
- 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 4,319 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 9.6h for positive, 7.3h 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 (92.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Powerful Puncher Defeat the Honey Badger in a boxing match. 100%
- Metal Warrior Defeat the Mega Eagle. Most players quit here 40% −60
- Mighty Witch Defeat the Mage. 34% −5
- Triumphant Squire Defeat the nefarious sorceror Humgrump. 32% −2
- Story Complete Complete the Story Mode. 32%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (24)
story milestone ending side
- Powerful Puncher Defeat the Honey Badger in a boxing match. 100%
- The Joy Of Art Find an Art Scroll. 97%
- Cute Little Glitchbird Find a Glitchbird. 94%
- Optimistic Explorer Try jumping off the desk. Worth a go. 68%
- Huge Frog Rearrange a sentence to make the little frog huge. 45%
- Metal Warrior Defeat the Mega Eagle. 40%
- Mighty Witch Defeat the Mage. 34%
- WRETCHED RODENT!!! SIMPLY INFURIATING 33%
- Story Complete Complete the Story Mode. 32%
- Triumphant Squire Defeat the nefarious sorceror Humgrump. 32%
- Powerful Jot Fully upgrade Jot's abilities. 31%
- Adventure Complete Complete the Adventure Mode. 27%
- Bust Buster Rearrange a sentence to blow up Humgrump's bust. 24%
- Cheese Mushrooms Rearrange a sentence to make some cheese mushrooms. 24%
- Star Walker Retrieve the scroll from the top of the star projector. 20%
- Perfect Fish Grab Catch Floatio on your first try. 13%
- Huge Bridge Rearrange a sentence to make the bridge huge. 11%
- Cheese Pillar Rearrange a sentence to make a cheese pillar. 7.6%
- Saviour of the Glitchbirds Rescue all Glitchbirds. 4.2%
- Challenge Mode Complete Complete the game in Challenge Mode 4.1%
- Art Collector Find all Art Scrolls. 4.0%
- Minigame MaxiGrump Complete every Humgrump-corrupted minigame in Challenge Mode 3.4%
- Brawl Buster Defeat every enemy in Deep Doom’s elevator room without dying in Challenge Mode. 2.9%
- Ironclad At Artia Reach Artia in Iron Squire Mode 1.4%