2023 · Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
How long is9 Years of Shadows?
by Halberd Studios
10 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 15 hours
9 Years of Shadows among the 122 metroidvanias here
The whole tier list#111
of 122
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 7%
- got past 2 hours
- −35 on the kind's 43%
- 2%
- past 20 hours
- −7 on the kind's 9%
- 20%
- launched it
- −38 on the kind's 59%
- 54
- libraries own it
- 1 in 46 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Divisive for its kind: only 79% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 155 of 184 metroidvanias here.
58% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
73% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
74% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
82% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
88% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does 9 Years of Shadows hold up?
Grows on people
Do the first two hours of 9 Years of Shadows tell you?
In the first two hours58%recommend it
After that79%recommend it
23 in 100 said no: 18 after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 10 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 15 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 3,410 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 73% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 88% at 20–50 hours.
12% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 58% of those recommend it. After the window, 79% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 78% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 7 hours in.
When would you get there?
10days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 10 hours on Tuesday, November 24.
Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 15 hours: Nov 19 to Nov 29 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in 9 Years of Shadows?
The filter
Pesticide
10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Whack-A-Nope and never earned it.
How this is counted
64% of the players who launched 9 Years of Shadows hold Whack-A-Nope, its first story achievement on Steam, and 24% hold Saviour, its last. The steepest drop comes between Whack-A-Nope (64%) and Pesticide (54%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is 9 Years of Shadows worth it?
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One hour, at list price
9 Years of Shadows
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 10 h
- metroidvania rate
- $1.67/h
- 10 h at that rate
- $17
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is 9 Years of Shadows worth it? It depends.
Fair price
About what a typical metroidvania charges: $2.00 an hour
Mixed
79% recommend it after the refund windowmost metroidvanias: 89%
Often left unplayed
21% of owners here have played itmost metroidvanias: 59%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 10 hours come to $2.00 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 79% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of 9 Years of Shadows costs about what the typical one of 184 metroidvanias here charges $1.67.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (metroidvanias) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play 9 Years of Shadows today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 4 more.
- todayPC2023
- todayAndroid2024
- todayiPhone2024
- todayXbox Series2025
- todayPS42025
- todayPS52025
- todayXbox One2025
- todaySwitch2026in Pinball Spire x 9 Years of Shadows
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines 9 Years of Shadows came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like 9 Years of Shadows?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like 9 Years of Shadows, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long 9 Years of Shadows would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@hustensaftschmuggler holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with 9 Years of Shadows?
1 in 3,631
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from 9 Years of Shadows: a kind of game it is that 9 Years of Shadows is not, a feature its tags carry that 9 Years of Shadows's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.