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DEAD OR ALIVE 5 Last Round: Core Fighters
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 53% of owners
Steam reviews 70% positive of 10,555
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (41%); after 5h it's 1 in 4 (24%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 53% 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 10,582 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 6.1h for positive, 0.6h 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 (53.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (45)
story milestone ending side
- Fledgling Fighter Fight a Versus (solo) match. 100%
- Fighting Entertainment Have your first fight outside of Training or Versus modes. 70%
- I Read Every Move Win without taking any damage. 68%
- First Tag Team Fight a tag match. 38%
- How Do I Fight? Display the Move List. 36%
- Arcade (Solo) Cleared Clear 1 course in Arcade (solo) mode. 34%
- Your Education Begins Now Play in Tutorial. 28%
- Safety First Turn Danger Zones off on the Stage Select screen. 24%
- You're It Fight a Versus (tag) match. 21%
- On the Edge of Your Seat Play Spectator mode. 21%
- Rival Rumble Fight online. 20%
- Fighting For Real Play a Ranked match. 19%
- Fighter, Know Thyself View your results in Fight Record. 19%
- A Fight to Remember Save a replay. 19%
- A New Challenger Appears! Played in Combo Challenge. 18%
- Power in Numbers Have a Team Fight. 17%
- Arcade (Tag) Cleared Clear 1 course in Arcade (tag) mode. 17%
- Blow 'Em Away Successfully land a Power Blow. 16%
- Survival (Solo) Cleared Clear 1 course in Survival (solo) mode. 15%
- Failure Teaches Success See 8 characters' losing poses. 15%
- Turn it Up Change the background music settings. 14%
- How Do I Fight Like a Pro? Display the Move Details. 13%
- Time Attack (Solo) Cleared Clear 1 course in Time Attack (solo) mode. 13%
- Who's Got Popcorn? Watch a movie. 13%
- Throwing In Together Do a character-specific tag throw. 13%
- Down You Go Successfully attack during a Cliffhanger. 12%
- You Asked for It! Set "Throwdowns" to "Accept" and have a Throwdown in Versus, Arcade, or Free Training mode. 11%
- Training Hard Play Free Training mode for 1 hour. 11%
- Exercise Newbie Complete all moves for a character in Command Training. 11%
- Say Cheese! Take a photo in Spectator mode. 10%
- Survival (Tag) Cleared Clear 1 course in Survival (tag) mode. 10%
- Rival Rampage Fight online 10 times. 9.0%
- Time Attack (Tag) Cleared Clear 1 course in Time Attack (tag) mode. 8.6%
- We Have Liftoff! Successfully deliver a Power Launcher. 8.4%
- Cliffhanger Comeback Successfully block an opponent's attack during a Cliffhanger. 7.1%
- Catch and Release Trigger the Special Danger Zone in Sky City Tokyo. 7.1%
- Gesundheit! Trigger the Special Danger Zone in The Show. 6.6%
- Tango Kilo November Trigger the Special Danger Zone in Hot Zone. 6.6%
- Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere Set "Throwdowns" to "Accept" and have 10 Throwdowns in Versus, Arcade, or Free Training mode. 6.4%
- Unchallenged Champion Complete all lessons for a character in Combo Challenge. 6.0%
- DOA5 Last Round Is My Life Fight online 100 times. 5.8%
- The Power of Two Do 10 different character-specific tag throws. 5.8%
- Change of Power Press H+P+K during a Power Blow to tag in a partner and deliver a Tag Power Blow. 5.6%
- A Fighter is Born Complete all lessons in Tutorial. 5.4%
- DOA5 Last Round Master Unlock all achievements. 4.9%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.