Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Give it 10 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 20h it's 1 in 18 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- 36% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Prison Break” (Free Samael from his prison) and “Like A Bat Outta Hell” (Defeat Tiamat): from 88% to 62% of starters.
- Only 63% 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 19,201 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 19.8h for positive, 14h 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 (63% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Death Dealer Meet Vulgrim 100%
- Prison Break Free Samael from his prison 88% −12
- Like A Bat Outta Hell Defeat Tiamat Most players quit here 62% −26
- One Tough Cookie Meet Ulthane 56% −5
- Rocked Your Face Off Defeat The Griever 51% −5
- Ashes to Ashes Defeat The Stygian 46% −5
- One Mean Mother Defeat Silitha 44% −2
- Payback's A B**** Defeat Straga 38% −6
- The Final Challenger? Defeat The Destroyer 36% −2
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Death Dealer Meet Vulgrim 100%
- To Move A Mountain Collect the Earthcaller 96%
- Prison Break Free Samael from his prison 88%
- Chasm Jumper Gain the Shadowflight Ability 88%
- Reaper Collect the Scythe 72%
- Elemental Thief Collect the Crossblade 70%
- Like A Bat Outta Hell Defeat Tiamat 62%
- Don't Make Me Angry Collect the Chaos Form Ability 61%
- Slayer Kill 666 Demons 61%
- One Tough Cookie Meet Ulthane 56%
- Who's Counting? Defeat more angels than Ulthane 54%
- Tremor Bringer Collect the Tremor Gauntlet 54%
- Rocked Your Face Off Defeat The Griever 51%
- An Old Friend Collect Mercy 51%
- Time Lapse Gain the Chronomancer Ability 51%
- High Flier Kill 5 duskbats without touching the ground 50%
- Reunited Obtain Ruin 47%
- Ashes to Ashes Defeat The Stygian 46%
- River of Blood Shed 3000 gallons of demon blood 46%
- Reach Out And Touch Somebody Collect the Abyssal Chain 44%
- One Mean Mother Defeat Silitha 44%
- Into the Void Collect the Voidwalker 43%
- Treasure Hunter Search 150 caskets 41%
- Payback's A B**** Defeat Straga 38%
- Sight Beyond Sight Collect the Mask of Shadows 38%
- Ultimate Blade Forge the Armageddon Blade 37%
- The Final Challenger? Defeat The Destroyer 36%
- You Call This Easy? COMPLETE the game on EASY difficulty 36%
- Balance Restored COMPLETE the game on NORMAL difficulty 32%
- Wrath Machine Collect all the Wrath Powers 24%
- Legendary Form Collect the Abyssal Armor Set 21%
- Devastator Kill 10 enemies with one Blade Geyser wrath attack 13%
- The True Horseman COMPLETE the game on APOCALYPTIC difficulty 13%
- Aerial Predator Kill 160 enemies while on the angelic beast 13%
- World Raider Collect all 27 Artifacts 12%
- Full Power Collect the maximum amount of lifestones 11%
- Open Air Parking Destroy a helicopter during the apocalypse with a vehicle 10%
- Wrath of War Collect the maximum amount of wrath cores 9.4%
- Horseman Kill 150 demons from horseback 9.0%
- Battle Hardened Max out all weapons and unlock all combat moves 8.7%
- Improvised Kills Kill 150 enemies with items from the environment 7.1%
- BFA Unlocked EVERYTHING! 6.8%
- Dark Rider Ride for 100 miles 6.8%