RPG
Avowed
The first 3 hours are a test
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 26% of players who started
Started playing 90% of owners
Steam reviews 77% positive of 13,382
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (63%); after 35h it's 1 in 7 (14%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
- 26% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “You've Got It From Here” (Sail to Paradis from Fort Northreach) and “A Cistern Warning” (Confront your assassin in the Cistern): from 100% to 67% of starters.
- 90% 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 13,457 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 42.5h for positive, 20.1h 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 (90.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- You've Got It From Here Sail to Paradis from Fort Northreach. 100%
- A Cistern Warning Confront your assassin in the Cistern. Most players quit here 67% −33
- A Proper Introduction Uncover the secret of Naku Tedek. 47% −20
- Spectral Evidence Complete the Trials of the Tebaru Sanakis. 34% −13
- It'll Cost Ya Confront Kostya in the Lava Tubes of Solace Keep. 27% −6
- Fior Extinguisher Save Fior mes Ivèrno from being razed by the Steel Garrote. 24% −3
- Allochory Release Sapadal from their prison. 23% −1
- Avowed Complete Avowed on any difficulty. 26% +3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (50)
story milestone ending side
- You've Got It From Here Sail to Paradis from Fort Northreach. 100%
- A Cistern Warning Confront your assassin in the Cistern. 67%
- Grounded Slay 10 Spiders and 10 Beetles. 62%
- Can't We All Get Along? Resolve a potential conflict peacefully 5 times. 58%
- Alpha Strike Protocol Kill 15 enemies using stealth attacks. 53%
- A Proper Introduction Uncover the secret of Naku Tedek. 47%
- Hawkeye Find the hidden room in Fort Northreach. 46%
- Luckier Than They Know Unlock all of Kai's abilities. 38%
- Bullseye Unlock all of Marius's abilities. 37%
- Spectral Evidence Complete the Trials of the Tebaru Sanakis. 34%
- A Little Power Goes a Long Way Unlock all of Giatta's abilities. 32%
- Slay! Unlock all of Yatzli's abilities. 28%
- It'll Cost Ya Confront Kostya in the Lava Tubes of Solace Keep. 27%
- Avowed Complete Avowed on any difficulty. 26%
- That Sign Can't Stop Me Because I Can't Read Ignore the warning note and pull the lever in the Sand Sea Ruins. 25%
- Fior Extinguisher Save Fior mes Ivèrno from being razed by the Steel Garrote. 24%
- Dream Fungi Rotation Try Aiko's drugs with your companions. 23%
- Allochory Release Sapadal from their prison. 23%
- Big Iron On Your Hip Equip a fully upgraded weapon. 22%
- We're All In This Together Complete all companion moments in the Garden. 20%
- Jingle, Jangle, Jingle Equip a fully upgraded set of armor. 19%
- Bounty Hunter Complete all Bounties from all regions. 18%
- Explorer Complete Sanza's map of the Living Lands. 18%
- Peak Performance Reach max level. 16%
- Dungeon Siege Enter every dungeon across all regions. 14%
- We Remember Complete all Ancient Memories. 14%
- Pantheon Purist Collect and place all of the God Shrine Totems & Fragments. 13%
- Kith Lord Discover all Party Camps across the Living Lands. 12%
- Now Riposte! Parry an enemy's attacks 25 times. 9.8%
- Gotta Cache 'Em All Find and open all Pargrunen Caches across the Living Lands. 9.6%
- Pillars of Eternity Cleanse all the Strangled Adra across all regions. 9.4%
- The Outer Worlds Unlock all Fast Travel beacons. 8.4%
- Training Arc Complete all training sessions with companions. 8.3%
- A Well Overflowing Max out an attribute. 7.9%
- Skeyt Digger Demand payment for your services 5 times. 6.9%
- Reverse Card Kill Captain Ngunu with his own poison. 6.9%
- Two Bears High-Fiving Summon a bear to fight another bear. 6.7%
- Get in the Statue, Envoy Contemplate death. 5.1%
- Pentiment Complete every side quest. 4.9%
- Parasitoid Destroy Sapadal and absorb their power. 4.3%
- Pathfinder Find all items from Treasure Maps. 4.2%
- Tired Of Being Nice Resort to violence in a conversation 10 times. 4.2%
- Retirement Plan Sell your future corpse to Elia. 3.8%
- Pants on Fire Lie 15 times. 2.4%
- A Test of Your Reflexes Complete Avowed on the difficulty Path of the Damned. 2.1%
- Everyone Disliked That Have every companion leave your party as a result of siding with the Steel Garrote. 2.0%
- Historian Collect all volumes of the History of the Living Lands in the Eothasian Temple. 1.5%
- Cooking By The Book Cook every recipe at your Party Camp. 1.4%
- Tyranny Be knighted as a member of the Steel Garrote. 1.1%
- Play Dead Wear Necropants and a Revenant Bell Collar at the same time. 1.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.