ActionRPG
FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0™ HD
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 13% of players who started
Started playing 70% of owners
Steam reviews 63% positive of 3,211
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (71%); after 20h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 96% of games we track.
- 13% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Enter Class Zero” and “Shots Fired”: from 79% to 38% of starters.
- Only 70% 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 3,216 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 22.2h for positive, 5.5h 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 (69.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Enter Class Zero Completed Chapter 1 "War - Three Hours That Changed the World." 79% −21
- Shots Fired Completed Chapter 2 "Raise the Vermilion Banner." Most players quit here 38% −41
- Expanding the Theater Completed Chapter 3 "Weapons of Mass Destruction." 23% −15
- A Frantic Flight Completed Chapter 4 "The Last Queen's Return to Oblivion." 21% −2
- War of the Wyverns Completed Chapter 5 "The First Battle of Judecca." 17% −4
- The Forbidden Savior Completed Chapter 6 "Terra Mortis - Khalia's Decision." 17%
- Conclusion to Combat Completed Chapter 7 "Fate of the Crystal - The Endless Battle." 14% −3
- What Lies Beyond Completed Chapter 8 "Verdict: Finis." 13% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (49)
story milestone ending side
- The White Tiger Roars Took down 20 imperial soldiers. 100%
- Enter Class Zero Completed Chapter 1 "War - Three Hours That Changed the World." 79%
- Skilled Slayer Landed Killsight strikes on 20 enemies. 63%
- A Simple Skirmish Defeated 100 enemies. 61%
- Miraculous Mission Completed a mission without allowing any casualties. 59%
- Roaming Terror Won an encounter in the overworld. 57%
- Taming the White Tiger Took down 100 imperial soldiers. 54%
- New Recruit Cleared 3 missions. 53%
- Teacher's Pet Sat in on one of Moglin's lectures. 50%
- Mystery of Magic Harvested 100 phantoma. 49%
- Forced Charity Searched 3 surrendered imperial soldiers. 45%
- Emergency Evasion Dodged 500 enemy attacks. 43%
- A Full-Scale War Defeated 300 enemies. 40%
- Communing with the Gods Forged a covenant with an Eidolon. 39%
- Shots Fired Completed Chapter 2 "Raise the Vermilion Banner." 38%
- Total Domination Won a 5-battle chain encounter in the overworld. 38%
- Perfect Marks Earned an S-Rank on a mission. 36%
- Rookie Wrangler Captured a chocobo. 35%
- The Executioner Landed Killsight strikes on 100 enemies. 34%
- Make Mother Proud Completed an SO. 34%
- Collateral Damage Defeated an enemy with the explosion from a fuel tank. 33%
- Collector of Memories Collected 5 Knowing Tags. 33%
- The Hunted Becomes the Hunter Won 50 encounters in the overworld. 32%
- Secret of Souls Harvested 500 phantoma. 32%
- Practice Makes Perfect Defeated a total of 20 enemies in combat simulation sessions. 30%
- Eggs-citing Development Hatched 5 chocobos at the chocobo ranch. 29%
- Imperial Investigation Searched 15 surrendered imperial soldiers. 25%
- Expanding the Theater Completed Chapter 3 "Weapons of Mass Destruction." 23%
- Hard Work's Reward Completed a secret training session. 22%
- A Frantic Flight Completed Chapter 4 "The Last Queen's Return to Oblivion." 21%
- Practice Pays Off Defeated a total of 100 enemies in combat simulation sessions. 19%
- War of the Wyverns Completed Chapter 5 "The First Battle of Judecca." 17%
- The Forbidden Savior Completed Chapter 6 "Terra Mortis - Khalia's Decision." 17%
- Mission Master Cleared 15 missions. 16%
- Moogle Mingler Talked with the moogles from all thirteen classes. 16%
- Conclusion to Combat Completed Chapter 7 "Fate of the Crystal - The Endless Battle." 14%
- What Lies Beyond Completed Chapter 8 "Verdict: Finis." 13%
- The Chocobo Whisperer Captured 30 chocobos. 11%
- The Great Liberator Liberated and visited all cities in the Dominion of Rubrum. 11%
- Mortal Validation Collected 25 Knowing Tags. 11%
- A Select Few Earned the "A Select Few" bonus. 11%
- Above the Law Avoided the penalty for failing an SO. 10%
- One Big Happy Flock Hatched 100 chocobos at the chocobo ranch. 10%
- Top Form in the Field Completed a mission using only Primed cadets. 10%
- The Beastmaster Forged covenants with 6 Eidolons. 9.5%
- The Ark of Agito Acquired the airship "Setzer." 8.3%
- An Army of One Earned the "An Army of One" bonus. 5.9%
- Master Marksman Shot down 50 enemies with the Setzer. 5.6%
- A Lonely Battle Earned the "A Lonely Battle" bonus. 5.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.