I was looking at retroachievements.org today and noticed some data that I found interesting, so I thought I’d share.
https://retroachievements.org/hub/25574?page[size]=100&sort=-playersTotal
FE: Illuminated has the most players by far at 917, but has no achievements, so there’s no data. @Sokaballa maybe you want to add some achievements lol. (I dunno how to do that, someone else made the pokemblem ones.)
I was looking at pokemblem’s achievement percentages and median game completion time to inform me about player retention. 53% of players never beat Brock, so I have poor retention in the first few hours and should consider guiding the player more and revising the earlygame. My player retention is then decent enough from there on, at least.
I asked ChatGPT to graph the data for the hacks I found in the above link.
I’m taking these results with a grain of salt since AI is involved and the data is somewhat limited, but I thought someone else might find this useful and/or interesting regardless.
As expected, the short hacks have the highest completion percentage. I had it cutoff at 30 hours because Vision Quest, Sacred Echoes, and [banned hack] were the only ones over 30, and the former two levelled off around then.
I may have the worst retention in the dataset, but at least I made it into the data lol 