DYNASTY WARRIORS 8 Empires

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 1,685 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 22.8h for positive, 2.4h 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 (77.7% 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 (48)

• Crushing Victory Win a battle with more than 90% of your total forces remaining. 100%
• First Mission Complete your first mission. 93%
• Start of a Long Road Complete a Strategy Objective for the first time. 91%
• Goal Orientated Leader Complete four Battle Objectives in a single battle. 90%
• Sizable Kingdom Obtain 20 officers in your own Kingdom. 87%
• Well Seasoned Fight and win a stage in spring, summer, fall and winter. 86%
• Architect Build a facility for the first time. 83%
• Oath Beneath Peach Trees Swear a sworn sibling oath for the first time. 81%
• Blossoming Love Profess your love for someone or have someone confess their love for you for the first time. 79%
• Strategy Stopper Stop a Large Scale Stratagem being prepared by the enemy. 76%
• Till Death Do Us Part Get married for the first time. 76%
• A Special Gift Receive a weapon or item as a gift for the first time. 70%
• The Next Generation Have a child for the first time. 69%
• Paragon of Good Obtain virtue of "Saint." 62%
• Prove Your Quality Became a Ruler for the first time. 62%
• Beginnings of Ambition Raise the banner of your own Kingdom for the first time. 58%
• Collected Works In Edit Mode, create at least one officer, banner, warhorse and soldier. 49%
• The Elite Few Win a battle with significantly less allied forces than enemy ones. 45%
• Battlefield Controller Capture 10 or more bases during a single battle. 44%
• A New Hero View any of the endings using a custom character. 43%
• Construction Enthusiast Build at least six of the same facility. 43%
• Brave and Bold Fight your way into enemy territory alone and defeat an officer. 33%
• Appointed Marshal Be appointed as a Marshal for the first time. 31%
• Age of Beauty Have at least three officers declare their love for you in a single lifetime. 29%
• Husk of Evil Obtain virtue of "Pure Evil." 27%
• Unrivaled Strategist Use at least 100 Stratagems. 26%
• Successor Succeed your superior's position for the first time. 25%
• Weather Master Use a Stratagem to change the weather. 24%
• Doesn't Play Well With Others Have a subordinate officer abandon you for the first time. 19%
• Appointed Strategist Be appointed as a Strategist for the first time. 19%
• Nepotism Rules Create a Kingdom comprised entirely of your sworn siblings, spouses and children. 19%
• Building Trust Complete a Quest and deepen your friendship with your Ruler. 19%
• Battle Ready Obtain at least 30 items. 18%
• The Sound of Tiny Feet Have a total of at least 5 children. 17%
• Rebel Rise in rebellion and become Ruler. 12%
• King of Chaos Clear any scenario on the "Chaos" difficulty. 9.7%
• Weapons Locker Obtain at least 100 weapons. 8.4%
• Winds of Victory Take part in "Battle of Chibi - Allied Forces" & have Zhuge Liang's "Southeast Wind" strategy work. 8.4%
• Aim For The Back Perform a betrayal for the first time. 7.9%
• Jumping Ahead Get recruited as a Marshal or Strategist from being a Free Officer. 7.6%
• Beyond Invincible Use any custom character to defeat all of the famous officers. 6.4%
• Many Crossroads View all of the events that can be watched in the Gallery. 3.3%
• Ultimate Nation Make all famous officers into your subordinate officers. 3.1%
• Many Ways To Live Complete all lifestyles. 1.9%
• Intellectual Victory Defeat more than 10,000 enemies using just Stratagems. 1.8%
• Decorated Veteran Achieve all titles. 1.7%
• Master of Strategy Execute all Strategy Commands at least once. 1.5%
• Completionist Accomplish all of the achievements in the game. 1.3%