ISLANDERS Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-25
- Relaxing and cozy experience
- Pleasant graphics and aesthetic
- City-building simulator with strategy
- Repetitive and boring gameplay
- Finicky and frustrating placement
- Grindy and RNG-dependent achievements
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
- 16,785
- Positive
- 15,85294.4%
- Negative
- 9335.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,300,186
- Estimated revenue
- $6,487,928
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 214.13%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,627
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,119
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 214.1% Avg playtime 0.5h | 6412.6% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 224.3% Avg playtime 7.8h | 40279% Avg playtime 32.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 14.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,728 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
509 total
Organic purchasers47593.3%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations346.68%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
509 total
First impression0-2h11522.6%
Voted up: 80%
Mid game2-10h22143.4%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h8416.5%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+8917.5%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
75.0%
Global baseline 91.6%
4 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 16,785 total.