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Vigil: The Longest Night
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 15% of players who started
Started playing 96% of owners
Steam reviews 86% positive of 3,667
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 2 reviews are negative (42%); after 20h it's 1 in 19 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- 15% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “Night Hunter” (Defeat the Craving Terror outside the town) and “Bruna's Redemption” (Defeat Brood Mother): from 90% to 65% of starters.
- 96% 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 3,692 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 24.1h for positive, 7.9h 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 (96.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Night Hunter Defeat the Craving Terror outside the town 90% −10
- Bruna's Redemption Defeat Brood Mother Most players quit here 65% −25
- Complete the Vigil Trial Defeat the Ancient Guard once 58% −7
- The Tide Rider Defeat Kelpie, the Lord of Tide 42% −16
- Flames Doom Defeat Erupting Flesh Cluster 40% −2
- Her Last Supper Defeat Lord of the Misty Lake 36% −3
- Sealed Disaster Defeat the Evil inside the wood 30% −6
- Broken Wings Stop the crazy Doctor 29% −1
- Light of Doom Defeat Light Devourer 28% −1
- Sealed with Hatred Defeat The North Princess 25% −3
- Storm in Otherworld Defeat Uptancos 24% −1
- The First One Defeat Dephil 21% −3
- By the Will of Dephil Wake Daisy's soul inside the Devourer 15% −6
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (47)
story milestone ending side
- I want to be a Vigilant! Welcome to the world of Vigil: The Longest Night! 100%
- Night Hunter Defeat the Craving Terror outside the town 90%
- Bruna's Redemption Defeat Brood Mother 65%
- Complete the Vigil Trial Defeat the Ancient Guard once 58%
- Eyes on You Get the Fallen Eyeball from Hilda 48%
- The Tide Rider Defeat Kelpie, the Lord of Tide 42%
- Running Around Help Daisy to get the medicine 41%
- Flames Doom Defeat Erupting Flesh Cluster 40%
- I'm RICH Buy Buffe's house 37%
- Her Last Supper Defeat Lord of the Misty Lake 36%
- Mysterious Pen Pal Complete Duran's quest 36%
- Lost Fortune Find Hamilton's belongings 33%
- Detective Leila Help Thurber W. Sungi's investigation 31%
- Connoisseur Collect all 7 lost paintings 30%
- Across the Sea Complete Noax's request 30%
- Sealed Disaster Defeat the Evil inside the wood 30%
- Miner Savior Save all miners then talk to Edward 29%
- Broken Wings Stop the crazy Doctor 29%
- Light of Doom Defeat Light Devourer 28%
- Golden Dream Find the Golden Slime 26%
- Sealed with Hatred Defeat The North Princess 25%
- No Salt Babe Help James to find the salt 25%
- Storm in Otherworld Defeat Uptancos 24%
- Secret of Church Pass Sister Holly's test 24%
- Let's Play! Give Isabella the ball 23%
- The First One Defeat Dephil 21%
- Skeptic Followed Hilda's words to relieve the seal 20%
- All Alone Complete the Mysterious Trader's request 18%
- Sword Master Complete the sword skill tree 17%
- August's Adventure Help August during his adventure 17%
- By the Will of Dephil Wake Daisy's soul inside the Devourer 15%
- Glass Hearted Don't shake it anymore! 15%
- Most Correct Choice Give the Cubic Crystals to the Doctor 14%
- Craftsman's Persistence Forge 5 weapon/equipment enchanted and reach to +7 13%
- Survival expert Complete the survival skill tree 13%
- Faster and Faster Complete the dual weapon skill tree 10%
- It's all about Practice. Complete the bow skill tree 10%
- SMASH! Complete the axe skill tree 10%
- Top Salesman Distribute the placebos to the Villagers in town 8.4%
- Beg from Beggar Beg to Drew 5 times 5.0%
- Great Arcanist Reach maximum value of Arcane power 4.5%
- I Want Them All. Complete all skill trees 4.1%
- Home Sweet Home Collect all furniture 3.8%
- Acrobat Reach maximum value of Throwing power 3.6%
- Weapon Collector Get at least one of every weapon in game 3.4%
- Cloth Collector Get at least one of every equipment in game (including rings) 3.3%
- Arcane Collector Collect all arcane items 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.