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2016 · Dungeon Crawler · RPG · JRPG

How long isStranger of Sword City?

by Experience Inc.

20 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 59 hours

Rarely seen through: only 6.2% of the players who launched it hold its last story achievement.

Do the first two hours of Stranger of Sword City tell you?

In the first two hours36%recommend it

After that72%recommend it

14 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 6 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 20 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 59 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 646 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

16% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 36% of those recommend it. After the window, 72% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 69% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 7 hours in.

When would you get there?

20days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 20 hours on Monday, November 9.

Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 59 hours: Oct 25 to Dec 18 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 Stranger of Sword City?

The filter

Departure

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

They hold Stranger and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Stranger−2080% hold it
  3. DepartureYou have begun to hunt down the Lineage Type that hides within the labyrinth.Filtered −4040% hold it
  4. My FriendsCompleted a quest for Gnuta.−1426% hold it
  5. Hardass InstructorPerformed an evaluation with Armor Knights and completed the quest [Knight Standoff].−125% hold it
  6. Life-Shaving DustHunted down Le Musa and completed the quest [Poison to Poison].−322% hold it
  7. Shop TerritoryCompleted a quest for the Phoenix Brother Squad and completed the quest [Phoenix Squad].−913% hold it
  8. Insane BetrayalTraveled through the Valley of the Ruined and completed the quest [Call From Kyo].−112% hold it
  9. Alm AwokenEscaped from the Elder's evil clutches and completed the quest [Land of the Origin].−210% hold it
  10. Cemetery of Sky ShipsHunted Charon and completed the quest [Mausoleum of Storms].−28.4% hold it
  11. Fate of a TraitorHunted down Kyo, who ambushed the guild.7.8% hold it
  12. God's HeartReached the end of the story.−26.2% hold it
How this is counted

80% of the players who launched Stranger of Sword City hold Stranger, its first story achievement on Steam, and 6.2% hold God's Heart, its last. The steepest drop comes between Stranger (80%) and Departure (40%).

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 Stranger of Sword City worth it?

Is Stranger of Sword City worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.7× the hours of a typical dungeon crawler, for the same money

  • Mixed

    72% recommend it after the refund windowmost dungeon crawlers: 88%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 20 hours come to $1.00 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 72% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.00 an hour, Stranger of Sword City is cheaper per hour than 85 of 119 dungeon crawlers here: the typical one of 119 dungeon crawlers here charges $1.67, so the same $19.99 buys 1.7× 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 (dungeon crawlers) 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 Stranger of Sword City?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Stranger of Sword City, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Stranger of Sword City 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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How this is counted

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