An Odd Observation on Curse of the Moon Stats

Yea I gotta whole backlog of games that are epicly awesome.... and I havent even started them up yet from way back to my PS3, I seriously have to change that, I do find it puzzling that so few people have finished the game, I'm not really surprised but kinda am at the same time, a good of a game as CotM is it is by no means a difficult game, those that say otherwise I suspect just need to put alil more perseverance to it. The amount of people that have all the trophies dosent surprise me at all though, once you've recurited everyone and done a nightmare run you've really seen the best parts of the game.

Also on a side note, just clicked my 500th wall mac Woohoo

I can personally vouch that one of those players (me) hasn't even touched COTM on Steam because I have it on my Switch and even if I had played it on Steam I wouldn't have all the achievements, or even have played through it. Ultimately, I'm just not one for Classicvania and while I can see why people really like COTM, it's ultimately not my cup of coffee. I played through most of it but got stuck at one point, quit to take a break and just never really felt a big inclination to go back to it. Too much other stuff that is my cup of coffee to play instead.

I'd bet some in those statistics have either issue or both issues as well.

This also may include all the console backers who were given temporary Steam codes for CotM - even if that wasn't one of your platform choices, we all got one the day before launch that perhaps only a few ended up really using after activation, or couldn't use it for whatever reason since they actually weren't PC gamers.

Its rare to see a game with a total achievment completion % close to or above 10 so 4.4% sounds about right.

I would be part of that 4.4 were it not for the damn Boss Rush trophy. That trophy can go to hell.

Yeah it's a nice game. I beat it once. I'm more about IGAvanias than Classicvania though. I had hype for it but lost all interest when Inti Creates made EU wait for the game. And weeks passed for many to even get the codes.

It happens with a ton of games. After all, as popular as Dark Souls is, how many people who bought it on a sale actually got far at all? I myself have several games sitting on steam that I havent touched, just waiting on a rainy day kind of thing.

COTM is also a little more complex case because plenty of people got copies for free for backing at a certain amount. Whether they actually wanted it or not. There are plenty of fans of the IGA games that DESPISE the games that came before him because they prefer the rpg exploration to classic platforming. How many IGA fans got a game based on the pre-IGA era, even though it was free, and said "eww platforming", and never touched it?

It is my prediction, if it hasn't already happened, that eventually a Steam game will exist that everyone buys because "it was on their list" due to a sale or whatever other reason (it was trending/well thought-of) and yet literally no one has played it. That is the future.

I tend to forget that there are fans who prefer one style of Castlevania to another and can't stand the other. I guess I fall into that in which classic and "Iga"-vania are my go-tos and anything else is trash.

I loved Curse of the Moon. The only runs of it I haven't done are the "Neutral Endings", the No power up Ending, and Boss Rush.

I never cared about Steam Achievements or Achievements of any kind...but I can say that I got all the achievements in Assassin's Creed 2, which was so easy I felt insulted. I can't recall a single game on steam that I got all the achievements in. Never saw a point to that. I've only heard stories and even read an article about this one stay at home mom who just collects achievements all day(That was many years ago and they're probably already divorced, LOL).

blueskull Stop. Just...stop. Not only are your comments of no value to this conversation, but they're also awfully annoying.

As for the topic, Steam stats are meaningless, specially achievement stats. Many people buy games on impulse and then forget they even exist, I myself am guilty of that. I have about 200 games on Steam, almost half of them are freebies that I got on giveaways or extra stuff from Humble Bundles that I bought because of a single game. So there's about 100 games on my Steam account that I've never even opened, yet Steam take them into account for their stats.