Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (45%); after 3h it's 1 in 4 (25%).
- At least 15% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Snakes speared in the ruins” (Defeat the Prophetess) and “Talos Aversion” (Defeat the Builder): from 57% to 18% of starters.
- 88% 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 4,392 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 8.2h for positive, 6.4h 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 (88.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Blood Tells Defeat the Fallen 100%
- Flammable or inflammable? Defeat the Warrior 72% −28
- Snakes speared in the ruins Defeat the Prophetess 57% −14
- Talos Aversion Defeat the Builder Most players quit here 18% −39
- Blood for Blood Defeat the Occultist 16% −2
- Death... killed? Defeat the Shadow 8% −8
- All that glitters is not gold. Defeat the Miser 8% −1
- I am Arthur, King of the Britons Defeat the Brittle King 5% −2
- Finish Hector's work Defeat the Zealot 3% −2
- Succubued to her wounds... Defeat the Temptress 3%
- Belmont's fall Finish the game and get the bad ending ≥15% +12
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 (29)
story milestone ending side
- Blood Tells Defeat the Fallen 100%
- Flammable or inflammable? Defeat the Warrior 72%
- Transylvanian Express Cover 19.86km 70%
- Snakes speared in the ruins Defeat the Prophetess 57%
- Jack of All Trades Find a weapon of each family in the game 41%
- Lamplighter Destroy 666 candles 30%
- True Belmont Kill an enemy with the Fallen's arcana spell while having a whip weapon equipped 19%
- Talos Aversion Defeat the Builder 18%
- Blood for Blood Defeat the Occultist 16%
- Belmont's fall Finish the game and get the bad ending 15%
- Stuff of Legends Find a legendary weapon 9.3%
- Death... killed? Defeat the Shadow 8.4%
- All that glitters is not gold. Defeat the Miser 7.5%
- The King is dead, long live the King Survive the Judge's verdict 5.9%
- I am Arthur, King of the Britons Defeat the Brittle King 5.2%
- Finish Hector's work Defeat the Zealot 3.4%
- Succubued to her wounds... Defeat the Temptress 3.2%
- Die monster! You don't belong in this world! Defeat Dracula 2.4%
- Always the same roof Why does Dracula bother to hide things there anyway? 2.3%
- Shadow Work Defeat the Self 2.0%
- The hunt goes on Finish the game and get the normal ending 2.0%
- Narcissus Activate every mirror of life 1.7%
- Curse lifted Finish the game and get the true ending 1.5%
- Armed to the Fangs Find every weapon in the game 1.2%
- The Greatest Detective Find every clues 1.2%
- Collector Find every health and mana upgrade 0.8%
- Pick a card, any card Unlock all blessings for every arcana 0.5%
- Perfectionist Hunter Reach 100% game completion 0.5%
- Dialog Skipper Finish the game in less than 4 hours 0.1%