The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

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 2,265 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 14.7h for positive, 7.8h 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 (88.9% 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 (45)

• Achievement Get an Achievement. 100%
• It's a Soulslike You died. 98%
• The Threshold Received the Spirit's blessing. 85%
• The Raider Defeated The Grinder. 47%
• Memory Challenge Level up five times in a single beacon visit. 46%
• 404 Achievement not found. 44%
• The Betrayer Defeated Gnom. 34%
• Roguelike Perform 20 backstabs. 32%
• The Puritan Defeated Wunderschonenburg. 22%
• Such Salt Drop 5 levels worth of memory in a single death. 20%
• The Heckler Defeated The Narrator. 19%
• The Embittered Defeated The Arena. 18%
• The Pipe Layer Defeat Mercucio. 16%
• Master's Sword Fully upgrade any weapon. 14%
• I Lit Every Torch ... In the Rehabilitation Pits and all I got was this lousy achievement. 14%
• Resurrection Give yourself back to Nostalgaia. 12%
• For Honor Complete Nameless Nhero's questline. 7.3%
• Off The Rails Have a train kill an enemy in Start of Sequence. 7.0%
• Whisked Away Give The Maiden's gift to The Innocent. 6.6%
• Redemption Complete Blade The Bold's questline. 6.3%
• The Traditionalist Defeat Luvanni's Anger 5.8%
• The Ideologue Defeat Eve 5.2%
• For the Unwanted Complete Lady Sco's questline. 4.6%
• Destiny Rebuked Complete Vengence's questline. 4.4%
• The Great One Claim your throne. 4.3%
• The Guardian Defeat The Spirit of Heroism. 4.0%
• The Block Button Perform 20 rebuffs. 3.9%
• An End to Suffering Complete The Reservoir of Pain's questline. 3.6%
• Ready? Fight! Perform 20 repostes. 3.5%
• The Martyr Defeat The Reservoir of Pain. 3.0%
• Endless Possibilities Complete The Innocent's questline. 3.0%
• Mercy Give The Reservoir's gift to The Innocent. 2.9%
• Song of Source Collect every Spell. 2.8%
• That's it!? Another Shirt!? 2.5%
• Fully Formatted Collect every rune. 2.2%
• A Guide Isn't Cheating Look up an achievement online. 2.1%
• Blessing of Pain Level up at The Reservoir of Pain. 1.9%
• The Rise and Fall of Evil Defeat The Adversary 1.8%
• Lore of the Land Remember every relic. 1.7%
• Ode to a Blacksmith Collect every piece of armor. 1.5%
• The Unwanted Savior Collect all Martyrdom Penalties. 1.1%
• Forensics Remember all relics in The Rise of Evil DLC 1.1%
• PvE Mode Complete the story without summoning other players or NPCs. 1.0%
• Speed Run Complete the story in under 5 hours. 0.9%
• Laid Bare Unburden every item. 0.8%