The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Steam Game) Steam logo

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At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.

Release DateAug 2, 2017
Price$ 39.99  Top 2%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)94.8% (very positive) Top 10% / 94.8%  Top 10%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)91.2% Top 2% / 91.3%  Top 2%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)4.4K  Top 5% / 5K  Top 5%
Curators137 reviews  Top 4%
Median Play Time79 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar2 hour  Top 10%
Followers44.5K  Top 3%
Owners± 195.4K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 151.6K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 4.1M  Top 4%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel's Steam rating and reviews from August 2017 to December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 97% (September 2017) and 94.7% (September 2023), with relatively small variations.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is an AAA level success, with 5K reviews Top 5%. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel's review languages. The most popular language is English (70%), followed by Simplified Chinese (16%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 25 languages represented. The game has 2 translations (English and Japanese), it could have been more popular if it was translated in more languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. You'll notice that the time played is very impressive, reaching 124 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 1.5 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. Some The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 83 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Interesting story
  • Fun combat
  • Quality-of-life improvements
  • Impressive soundtracks
  • Favorability system
  • Collecting elements
  • Exciting battles and quests
  • Lots of content to enjoy
  • Great characters
  • Immersive game world
  • Repetitive dialog
  • Some glitches
  • Somewhat slow pace
  • Not optimized for PC
  • Dull character costumes
  • Unnatural propaganda
  • Limited music
  • Long story parts
  • Some irrelevant characters
  • Not a great starting point

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's 94.8% rating  Top 10% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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