2018 · Choices Matter · RPG · Story Rich
How long isThe Council?
by Big Bad Wolf
13 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 20 hours
Steady from start to finish: 84–91% of its reviewers recommend it at every stage past two hours.
50% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
87% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
84% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
86% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
91% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does The Council hold up?
Holds steady
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 13 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 20 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 5,750 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 84% and 91% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
When would you get there?
13days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 13 hours on Friday, November 27.
Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 20 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 4 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 The Council?
The filter
Important people
4 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Rough night and never earned it.
How this is counted
44% of the players who launched The Council hold Sweet dreams, its first story achievement on Steam, and 34% hold Once upon a time..., its last. The steepest drop comes between Rough night (40%) and Important people (36%).
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 The Council today?
On PS4, PC and Xbox One
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPS42018
- todayPC2018
- todayXbox One2018
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Council 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 The Council?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Council, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Council 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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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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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 The Council: a kind of game it is that The Council is not, a feature its tags carry that The Council's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.