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Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 23% of players who started
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 93% positive of 6,019
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (17%); after 10h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised less than in 78% of games we track.
- 23% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “We built this city on Guac and Roll” (Discover Santa Luchita) and “That's one big Gato Frito” (Kill the Alebrije): from 79% to 55% of starters.
- 78% 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 6,039 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 10.3h for positive, 5.3h 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 (77.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Why all the long faces? Enter the world of the dead 100%
- Viva La Resurrección Become a Luchador 99% −1
- A Hero is Born Save Pueblucho 95% −4
- We built this city on Guac and Roll Discover Santa Luchita 79% −16
- That's one big Gato Frito Kill the Alebrije Most players quit here 55% −23
- X'tabay-Bye Redeem X'tabay 45% −10
- Snuffed Out Defeat Flame Face 33% −12
- Licking his Wounds Defeat Jaguar Javier 29% −4
- Boom-Shack-Calaca Defeat Calaca 23% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (60)
story milestone ending side
- Why all the long faces? Enter the world of the dead 100%
- Viva La Resurrección Become a Luchador 99%
- A Hero is Born Save Pueblucho 95%
- My First Power Move Destroy a Block using Uppercut 85%
- Want us to untie you? Talk to a Goat 84%
- We built this city on Guac and Roll Discover Santa Luchita 79%
- All Cooped Up Complete the Chicken Herding quest 67%
- Nap Time's Over Wake up an Alebrije 66%
- Flawless Defeat an arena without taking any damage 66%
- Big Hearted Complete a full heart upgrade 65%
- Thick headed Destroy a Block using Headbutt 64%
- Endurance Complete a full stamina upgrade 60%
- Giant Killer Defeat 3 giant skeletons 57%
- That's one big Gato Frito Kill the Alebrije 55%
- Wheeee Teleport through an Olmec head 55%
- Belly Flop Destroy a Block using Slam 53%
- Boomerang Defeat an enemy with its own projectile 52%
- Cock of the Walk Defeat an enemy as a chicken 49%
- Shopaholic Spend $10000 in the store 47%
- X'tabay-Bye Redeem X'tabay 45%
- Combo Nerd Achieve a 150 Hit Combo 41%
- Reunited Complete the Missing Doll quest 35%
- Pow Destroy a Block using Dash Punch 35%
- Snuffed Out Defeat Flame Face 33%
- Nooks and Crannies Find 100% of the hidden items in a single area 32%
- That's using your head Headbutt an enemy off a cliff 30%
- Got to catch them all Find an orb 30%
- Rocketman Soar through the air for 12 seconds using "Goat Fly" 29%
- Licking his Wounds Defeat Jaguar Javier 29%
- Stop squirming Defeat an Alux using only Headbutt 24%
- Green Thumb Uproot 20 plant enemies 24%
- Music to my ears Complete the Mariachi Band quest 23%
- Boom-Shack-Calaca Defeat Calaca 23%
- I AM ERROR Complete the I AM ERROR quest 20%
- Which came first? Enter egg mode while playing as the Pollo Luchador 16%
- Delicious Complete the World's Greatest Enchilada quest 16%
- Gumshoe Complete the Chicken Thief quest 16%
- Poncho'd Out Complete the Combo Chicken quest (Defeat Poncho forever) 13%
- Bag o' bricks Throw an enemy while playing as Juanita or Tostado 13%
- Cleaned Out Buy all the items in the shop 12%
- I feel empty inside Collect a health orb as the Skeleton Luchador 11%
- Lore Master Complete All Side Quests 9.5%
- The Never Ending Combo Achieve a 300 Hit Combo 9.1%
- El Savior Access the alternative ending (collect all orbs) 8.5%
- I swat you Defeat a Chupacabra using only Slam 7.6%
- Up Close and Personal Defeat Calaca using only melee attacks 6.6%
- Who put these here??? Collect every chest in the game 5.4%
- Heavyweight Earn a Bronze Medal in all Infierno challenges 5.3%
- Beastly Complete Infierno challenge 17 as the Alebrije 5.2%
- The Devil wears Revenge! Defeat Calaca with full health in Diablo's Suit 4.8%
- Heroine-ism Defeat Calaca with Player 1 playing as Juanita 4.6%
- They hit really hard Defeat 5 arenas in Hard mode 4.5%
- Title Contender Earn a Silver Medal in all Infierno challenges 4.4%
- World Champion Earn a Gold Medal in all Infierno challenges 4.1%
- GREETINGS, FELLOW CHICKEN As the Pollo Luchador, find and talk to each of the four giant chickens with the green sombreros 3.9%
- The Old-Fashioned Way Complete Infierno challenge 14 using Goat Fly no more than four times 3.9%
- GOOOOOOOAL! Complete Infierno challenge 10 and challenge 15 as El Brody 3.6%
- Bone on bone Conquer the final column of arenas in La Caverna del Pollo as the Skeleton Luchador 3.5%
- Catch the Rainbow! Connect with all six special attacks without touching the ground 3.1%
- That was Hard Mode? Defeat the game on Hard mode 3.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.