Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book

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 1,837 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 42.4h for positive, 11.3h 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 (86.3% 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 (45)

• Meeting A Mysterious Book Met Plachta. 100%
• Squishy Punipuni Defeated a Puni in your first battle. 93%
• Is it True? Purchased a rumor. 74%
• A Bad Incident Something bad happened while traveling. 71%
• Barrel! Inspected a barrel. 69%
• One Shot! Saved by a mysterious person. 62%
• Order Made Crafted a weapon or armor. 57%
• Please, Cory! Registered an item at the duplication shop. 54%
• The Voice's Identity Found the identity of the voice in the cabin. 47%
• Operation Humanize Nothing Failed to turn Plachta into a human. 40%
• Familiar Equipment Enhanced a weapon or armor. 40%
• Seeing Eye to Eye Turned Plachta into a doll. 39%
• The Ultimate Attack! Unleashed a special attack. 37%
• A Happy Gift Received a present. 37%
• A New Me Put on a new outfit. 36%
• Capable Adventurer Reached maximum adventurer level. 34%
• Music Box Clue Found out the machine box is a music box. 32%
• Plachta's Happy Satisfied Plachta during Doll Making. 32%
• Change of Mood Changed Plachta's appearance. 32%
• I'll Do Anything! Reached maximum Request rank. 31%
• Waterside Vacation Enjoyed a waterside vacation with Leon. 27%
• Sleepyhead Slept for 3 whole days. 27%
• The Cauldron of Knowledge Cauldron of Knowledge stolen by Meklet and Atomina. 27%
• Wild Transformation Defeated Nazarus. 25%
• Date with the Poster Girl Went on a date with Tess. 24%
• After the Battle Finished the battle, and returned to the atelier. 23%
• Ablation Alchemist Defeated Luard. 23%
• The Fixed Clock Harol showed you the repaired clock. 23%
• Glasses Off Saw Elise without her glasses on. 21%
• Sister's Smile The donation to church reach the target figure which makes Pamela very happy. 19%
• Monika on Stage Enjoyed Monika's concert. 19%
• Full-Fledged Alchemist Reached maximum alchemy level. 19%
• Reliable Oskar Saw Oskar carrying Monika in his arms. 19%
• Money Saver Saved up 100,000 Cole. 17%
• His Goal Witnessed Logy find new determination. 16%
• A Challenge from Plachta Given a challenge by Plachta. 15%
• Moon Piercing Dragon Defeated Dorak. 14%
• Sun Destroying Dragon Defeated Yasuk. 13%
• Top Musician Got good at playing the piano. 13%
• Friends with Everyone Raised friend level of all party members to maximum. 13%
• Unexpected Skills? Walked in on Horst playing the piano. 12%
• Embodiment of Light Defeated the Light Elemental. 9.7%
• Master of Insight Learned every single recipe. 7.9%
• Harvester of Life Defeated the Demon Lord. 7.3%
• The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book Collected all trophies. 6.0%