Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Give it 15 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (40%); after 20h it's 1 in 15 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- At least 13% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Novahot or Not?” (Find a new Decker for your crew) and “Dante's Inferno” (Dante joins the crew): from 83% to 48% of starters.
- Only 58% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 6,674 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 32.5h for positive, 4.8h 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 (58.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Novahot or Not? Find a new Decker for your crew. 83% −17
- Dante's Inferno Dante joins the crew. Most players quit here 48% −35
- Change of Plans Convinced Vauclair to abandon his plan. ≥13% −35
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (39)
story milestone ending side
- Shoot Straight Successfully attack an enemy with a chance of less than 30% to hit. 100%
- I Feel Great Heal more than 30 damage in a single cast of Heal Wound. 86%
- Novahot or Not? Find a new Decker for your crew. 83%
- Wait For It... Kill an enemy with damage over time. 77%
- Stahl Out Killed the Humanis leader. 50%
- Dante's Inferno Dante joins the crew. 48%
- Doesn’t Have To Be This Way Deal with the Rabengeister gang without killing anyone. 44%
- Historical Record Watch all of the decrypted DVDs. 38%
- Everybody Deserves a Second Chance Spared the Humanis leader. 36%
- Come Forth Summon 5 spirits from places in the environment. 35%
- Moving On Complete Glory’s storyline. 35%
- Place of Power Kill an enemy with a magic spell while standing on a ley-line. 33%
- Relationship Counselor Complete Blitz’s storyline. 31%
- Application of Force Attacked Frank for his keys. 30%
- (Don’t) Conserve Ammo Kill 15 enemies using a full-auto rifle or minigun. 29%
- Won’t Suffer an AI to Live Destroy the APEX AI. 26%
- Clean Slate Destroy the draconic research lab. 23%
- It Seems Trustworthy Free the APEX AI. 23%
- I Don’t Have a Problem Use 5 “combat stims”. 21%
- Awakened Predator Kill 30 enemies with magic spells. 21%
- Whatever You Need Buy Flash from Zaak Flash. 21%
- More Bullets, More Effective Use Spray & Pray to hit more than two enemies with an SMG. 17%
- It Was a Massacre Kill every gang member in the Drogenkippe Hotel. 17%
- That’s Not How You Use This Kill an enemy at point blank range by using a sniper rifle. 14%
- Information Is Free Complete all Schockwellenreiter Objectives. 14%
- Change of Plans Convinced Vauclair to abandon his plan. 13%
- Built for the Streets Have every cyberware slot filled by an enhancement. 12%
- Fly Free, Great Wyrm Freed the dragon Feuerschwinge. 12%
- War Stories Complete Eiger’s storyline. 12%
- APEX Ascendant Turn Vauclair's research over to APEX. 10%
- Money Talks Complete all Lodge Objectives. 6.5%
- Unintended Consequences Sided with Vauclair. 4.5%
- Don’t Try This at Home Overload the Aztechnology generators before the alarm goes off. 4.3%
- Never Make a Deal With a Dragon Killed the dragon Feuerschwinge. 4.3%
- Death Spirit Kill 5 enemies with one summoned spirit. 4.0%
- Not This Time Avoid damage 10 times using Wired Reflexes cyberware. 3.4%
- Needs to Cool Off Left Feuerschwinge in captivity. 2.8%
- Fire in the Hole Kill 15 enemies with grenades. 2.2%
- Down, Boy Put an end to Dante. 1.7%