When does The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] get good?

Give it 1 hour. In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 3h it's 1 in 18 (5%). Fully opens up by hour 3.

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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

Jan 5, 2019 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 1 hour

Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 93% of owners

Steam reviews 87% positive of 768

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 3h it's 1 in 18 (5%).
Fully opens up by hour 3.
93% 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 781 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 3.4h for positive, 0.9h 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 (93.3% 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 (35)

Gun Find the gun 100%
Baby Glider Grab the Cyclops’ GLIDER 85%
Adam Use Adam 79%
Double Barrel Find the double barrel shotgun 63%
Blood Rage Find the axe 49%
Vaporize Teleport to ship 43%
Hammer Find the hammer 41%
Eve Use Eve 40%
HO-HO-HO Find the machine gun 36%
Shotgun Find the shotgun 36%
Lab Glider Grab the Scientist’s GLIDER 35%
Temple Glider Grab the God’s GLIDER 29%
City Glider Grab the Sniper’s GLIDER 28%
Kamikaze Crash the ship before reaching the Castle 24%
Mace Find the mace 24%
Metal Crusher Destroy the Guardian 24%
Doesn’t scare me! Kill the Kranker 23%
Mission Complete Save the AI 21%
Boomer Find the Grenades 21%
True Love Kill the Scientist and his Wife 19%
Clashing Thunder Find the Sword 16%
Aztlan Warrior Kill the God with your fists 2.8%
Friends Make the Kranker happy 2.7%
Geared up Find all available items 2.1%
Maverick Reach the Castle with the ship 1.9%
Not like this Unplug your friend 1.6%
Collector Find all GLIDER fragments 1.4%
Speedwork Outrun the sniper 1.4%
Highlander Finish without ever dying 0.8%
Completionist End the game at 100% 0.6%
1987 end the intro within 19.87 moments 0.6%
Die Hard Finish the second run 0.6%
Hardcore Gamer Finish the third run 0.6%
Achiever Unlock all achievements 0.5%
Speed run end game within 300.00 moments 0.5%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.