BURIED STARS Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-31
- Characters are well-developed
- Voice acting is excellent
- Art style is appealing
- Forced multiple playthroughs required
- Inconvenient save system
- Skip function skips all text
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 2,254
- Positive
- 1,88683.7%
- Negative
- 36816.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 167,556
- Estimated revenue
- $6,700,564
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 132.79%
- Estimated copies lost
- 966
- Estimated revenue lost
- $38,630
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 132.8% Avg playtime 1h | 367.7% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 10121.7% Avg playtime 17.6h | 31667.8% Avg playtime 25.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 12.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,734.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
466 total
Organic purchasers39584.8%
Voted up: 72%
Key activations7115.2%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
466 total
First impression0-2h6012.9%
Voted up: 78%
Mid game2-10h11224.0%
Voted up: 64%
Late game10-20h11224.0%
Voted up: 74%
Endgame20h+18239.1%
Voted up: 82%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
83.3%
Global baseline 75.5%
12 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,254 total.