FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED
Last updated: 2025-12-28
- Remaster improves quality of life significantly
- Speed boosts enhance fast-paced gameplay
- Cheats and difficulty adjustments available
- Poor remaster quality disappoints players
- Outdated and clunky gameplay mechanics
- Technical and performance issues persist
Emotions
Frustration19%Nostalgia16%Disappointment15%Satisfaction7%Appreciation6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,027
- Positive
- 3,73974.4%
- Negative
- 1,28825.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 373,509
- Estimated revenue
- $7,466,445
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 364.03%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,675
- Estimated revenue lost
- $53,473
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 364% Avg playtime 0.7h | 131.5% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 12614.1% Avg playtime 37.8h | 71880.4% Avg playtime 58h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 21.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,307.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
893 total
Organic purchasers76085.1%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations13314.9%
Voted up: 89%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
893 total
First impression0-2h9110.2%
Voted up: 34%
Mid game2-10h17219.3%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h10411.6%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+52658.9%
Voted up: 89%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.4%
Global baseline 81.9%
43 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,027 total.