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2012 · Hack and Slash · Fantasy · Spectacle fighter

How long isBlades of Time?

by Gaijin Entertainment Corporation

6.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 2 hours and 13 hours

Good value: $1.54 an hour, cheaper than 1,485 of 2,083 adventure games here.

Does Blades of Time hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Blades of Time tell you?

In the first two hours59%recommend it

After that85%recommend it

10 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 10 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 6.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2 hours and 13 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,740 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 78% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 89% at 10–20 hours.

25% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 59% of those recommend it. After the window, 85% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 51% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2 hours in.

When would you get there?

7days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 6.5 hours on Tuesday, October 27.

Half of its reviewers had played between 2 and 13 hours: Oct 22 to Nov 2 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 Blades of Time?

The filter

Coral Dash

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

They hold Rifle and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Gather Chi−1981% hold it
  3. Rifle−873% hold it
  4. Coral DashGet the ability to dash to the corals.Filtered −1261% hold it
  5. Enemy DashGet the ability to dash to enemies.−655% hold it
  6. Free to go!Kill the Gateguard.−946% hold it
  7. Clear the JungleKill the Shaman Boss.−1234% hold it
  8. Old TempleReach the Sanctuary.−430% hold it
  9. World of OrderDefeat Skyguard Commander.−525% hold it
  10. Big CorpseDefeat Giant Worm.−322% hold it
  11. Sky Islands−418% hold it
  12. Keeper Is DeadFinish the game on any difficulty level.−414% hold it
How this is counted

81% of the players who launched Blades of Time hold Gather Chi, its first story achievement on Steam, and 14% hold Keeper Is Dead, its last. The steepest drop comes between Rifle (73%) and Coral Dash (61%).

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 Blades of Time worth it?

Is Blades of Time worth it? Mostly.

  • Good value

    1.4× the hours of a typical adventure game, for the same money

  • Liked

    85% recommend it after the refund windowmost adventure games: 90%

  • Often left unplayed

    35% of owners here have played itmost adventure games: 56%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 6.5 hours come to $1.54 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 85% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.54 an hour, Blades of Time is cheaper per hour than 1485 of 2083 adventure games here: the typical one of 2083 adventure games here charges $2.22, so the same $9.99 buys 1.4× the hours.

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 (adventure games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, 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.

Would you like Blades of Time?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Blades of Time, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Blades of Time 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.

What did people here do with Blades of Time?

  • 1 in 3,480

    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.

Games like Blades of Time

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How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.