The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero

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 1,589 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 57.2h for positive, 27.6h 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 (91.7% 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 (49)

• A Noteworthy Beginning Received the Detective Notebook. 100%
• Welcome to the Force Completed the Prologue, 'Special Support Section.' 83%
• Oh, Oh, Oh, Stayin' Alive! Recovered from critical condition in battle. 80%
• Unflinching Justice Completed a chapter without fleeing from battle. 80%
• Man of Valor Achieved 100 victories in battle. 80%
• The White Wolf's Favor Completed Chapter 1, 'Afternoon of the Wolves.' 76%
• You Activated My Trap Card! Achieved 100 preemptive attacks. 72%
• An Unforgettable Performance Completed Chapter 2, 'Golden Sun, Silver Moon.' 71%
• The Girl in the Trunk Completed Chapter 3, 'Crossbell Anniversary Festival.' 67%
• Shadows of the Cult Completed Chapter 4, 'Creeping Wisdom.' 64%
• A New Day for Crossbell Completed the Finale, 'Crossbell's Longest Day.' 63%
• Star Performer Defeated Org Virage for the extermination request. 59%
• Over the Moon Defeated Vizou for the extermination request. 59%
• Your Time in the Sun Defeated Dark Legend for the extermination request. 59%
• The Princess and the Pauper Attended the Schwarze Auction with Elie. 58%
• I Would Kill 500 Foes... Achieved 500 victories in battle. 57%
• Eight Defeats, One Raid Defeated 8 enemies at once. 53%
• Can't Spell Love Without Elie Forged a strong bond with Elie. 47%
• Unbeatable Heroes Completed a chapter without suffering K.O. in battle. 44%
• Breaking Baddies Used 100 S-Breaks. 40%
• Unlikely Siblings Attended the Schwarze Auction with Tio. 37%
• Bad Influence Attended the Schwarze Auction with Randy. 32%
• You Won't Like Me When I'm Angler-y Caught all fish. 30%
• Your Friendly Neighborhood SSS Completed all quests. 29%
• Home SSSweet Home Collected all decorations and Enigma covers. 27%
• Fully Equipped Created the strongest weapon. 26%
• Following in His Footsteps Became a 1st Class Detective. 25%
• A Novel Pastime Collected all Back Alley Doctor Glenn and Crossbell Times. 24%
• Hail to the Chef Obtained all recipes. 24%
• Dishing out the Hits Created all supreme dishes. 23%
• Dishing out the Hurgh! Created all peculiar dishes. 23%
• Chain-Linked Of-fence Won a chain of three consecutive battles. 22%
• ...Just to Fall Down at Your Door Defeated over 2,000 enemies. 21%
• You're Harder Than Hard Completed the game on hard difficulty or higher. 21%
• Mishy'n Not Impossible Forged a strong bond with Tio. 20%
• Orlando's Blooming Friendship Forged a strong bond with Randy. 15%
• Miracle Mirannaire Had one million mira or more. 15%
• ...And I Would Kill 500 More... Achieved 1,000 victories in battle. 15%
• Quartz by the Gallons Collected all quartz. 11%
• Crossbell Five-0 Raised any one character to level 50. 11%
• Neverending Stakeout Played for over 100 hours. 11%
• Sweet Dreams Completed the game on nightmare difficulty. 10%
• Tacti-Cool Advantage Won a battle with a tactical bonus of ×3.00 or more. 9.9%
• Regna Rocked Defeated Regna Veriel. 8.7%
• Rise and Don't Grind Completed the game with all party less than or equal to level 40. 8.6%
• Objection! Canceled 100 enemy arts or crafts. 7.7%
• The Usual Suspects Collected all information in the Combat Notebook. 7.6%
• Chest Nut Opened every treasure chest. 7.0%
• Ace Detective Mastered Trails from Zero and earned every achievement. 5.3%