2017 · Story Rich · Emotional · Puzzle
How long isRakuen?
by Laura Shigihara
9 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 14 hours
Rakuen among the 761 puzzle games here
The whole tier list#166
of 761
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 55%
- got past 2 hours
- +16 on the kind's 38%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 3%
- 60%
- launched it
- +3 on the kind's 57%
- 73
- libraries own it
- 1 in 34 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
On the long side for a puzzle game: 9 hours for the typical player, longer than 883 of 1,033 puzzle games here.
75% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
86% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
97% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
98% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
99% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does Rakuen hold up?
Grows on people
86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 99% at 20–50 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Rakuen tell you?
In the first two hours75%recommend it
After that97%recommend it
4 in 100 said no: 3 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 9 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 14 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 5,950 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 86% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 99% at 20–50 hours.
4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 75% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 75% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 5 hours in.
When would you get there?
9days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 9 hours on Monday, November 23.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 14 hours: Nov 20 to Nov 28 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 Rakuen?
The filter
Runestone: Family
4 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Runestone: Light and never earned it.
How this is counted
43% of the players who launched Rakuen hold Clear the Air, its first story achievement on Steam, and 27% hold Rakuen, its last. The steepest drop comes between Runestone: Light (35%) and Runestone: Family (31%).
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 Rakuen worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Rakuen
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 9 h
- puzzle game rate
- $2.28/h
- 9 h at that rate
- $21
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Rakuen worth it? Yes.
Good value
1.4× the hours of a typical puzzle game, for the same money
Loved
97% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle games: 92%
Usually played
61% of owners here have played itmost puzzle games: 63%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 9 hours come to $1.67 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.67 an hour, Rakuen is cheaper per hour than 695 of 1033 puzzle games here: the typical one of 1033 puzzle games here charges $2.28, so the same $14.99 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 (puzzle games) 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 Rakuen today?
On Switch and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2017
- todaySwitch2023
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Rakuen 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 Rakuen?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Rakuen, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Rakuen 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.
@eltorga holds this page
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Rakuen, but darker, and a third of the hours
Loved · 93%Games like DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
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 Rakuen: a kind of game it is that Rakuen is not, a feature its tags carry that Rakuen's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.