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2017 · Metroidvania · Retro · Side Scroller

Alchemist's Castle

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Alchemist's Castle among the 121 metroidvanias here

The whole tier list
DPlayed tier

#106

of 121

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

0%
got past 2 hours
−43 on the kind's 43%
0%
past 20 hours
−9 on the kind's 9%
6%
launched it
−53 on the kind's 59%
36
libraries own it
1 in 69 of the 2,477 read here
Alchemist's Castle ↓
#1 Hollow Knight: Silksong#121
94% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

A wall partway in: one story step stops 26 in 100 of the players who launched it.

Where do players get filtered in Alchemist's Castle?

The filter

Push it!

26 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Jumper and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. JumperFind the jump upgrade−2674% hold it
  3. Push it!Find the push upgradeFiltered −2648% hold it
  4. Bang!Find the explosive upgrade−1137% hold it
  5. Gotta go faster!Find the sprint upgrade−928% hold it
  6. Double jumperFind the double jump upgrade−523% hold it
  7. Bad Apprentice!Finish the game−320% hold it
How this is counted

74% of the players who launched Alchemist's Castle hold Jumper, its first story achievement on Steam, and 20% hold Bad Apprentice!, its last. The steepest drop comes between Jumper (74%) and Push it! (48%).

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.

Where can I play Alchemist's Castle today?

On PS4, PC and Switch

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayPC2017
  2. todayPS42018
  3. todaySwitch2022in All in! Bundle
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Alchemist's Castle 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 Alchemist's Castle?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Alchemist's Castle, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Alchemist's Castle 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.

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