Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (32%); after 20h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 29% 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 14,143 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 19.6h for positive, 9.5h 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 (28.9% 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 (21)
story milestone ending side
- Lets Take This Outside! Get in a bar fight. 100%
- Hunker Down Build a wagon fort from the camp menu. 99%
- Dress Up Customise your mercenaries' equipment using the mercenary camp. 80%
- Lock Stock And 3 Smoking Barrels Using any firearm; kill 100 enemies. 79%
- Na zdorovie! Buy drinks for everyone at a bar. 57%
- First Steps Start any main storyline quest found in the three main factions. 54%
- City Planner Build three upgrades in a single town/castle you control. 35%
- Knock Knock Successfully blow a hole in a castle/town wall before a siege. 34%
- Don't Die Of Dysentery Tend to your army's illnesses, five times, by resting or feeding them. 30%
- Bomberman Kill 50 enemies with grenades. 22%
- Wheeler Dealer Earn 3,000 thaler in profit from a single caravan trade. 16%
- Trader You've made 100,000 thaler from using trade caravans. 10%
- Summer Fest Complete the summer feast quest found in any village on the eastern side of the map. 10%
- Velvet Commander Keep 10 bundles of velvet in your inventory. 7.6%
- Polish Drama Finish the Polish Commonwealth's main storyline quest "The Deluge" 6.2%
- Grand Tzar Finish the Moscovite Tsardom's main storyline quest "The False Dmitry" 5.2%
- Power Shift As any faction; conquer the map and eliminate all other factions. 5.2%
- Black Mace Finish the Cossack Hetmanate's main storyline quest "The Black Mace" 4.8%
- Great Trader You've made 1,000,000 thaler from using trade caravans. 4.8%
- Return Of The Horde Join the Crimean Khanate and eliminate all other factions. 4.8%
- Swedish Scourge Join the Kingdom of Sweden and eliminate all other factions. 4.8%