Skyrim is a pretty big game, with lots to see, do, and hack to death.

So much, in fact, that apparently only 15% of players have actually finished the game – everybody else, it turns out, is much too busy buying up property and stealing everybody else’s stuff.

That’s according to a report over on Kotaku, which looks at Steam’s global Achievement tracking to work out who’s doing what in the game.

Unsurprisingly, the most commonly attained Achievement is “Unbound”, awarded for making it through the game’s introductory sequence, although for one reason or another around 7% of players don’t have it. They just don’t have what it takes to be Dragonborn, I guess.

From there, it seems, many people either get lost in the wilderness, eking out a feral existence among the giants and mammoths, their humanity quite forgotten, or stop playing altogether – less than 80% of players make it to level 10, only 44% to level 25, and just 4.7% to level 50.

Still, it seems Skyrim players are a conscionable bunch, at least, with only 0.4% of players reaching “Master Criminal” status for having a bounty of 1000 gold in all nine holds.

As the article notes, you can check these for yourself by loading up Steam, rolling over to the Skyrim section, and hitting the Global Achievements option.

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