A Short Hike
Last updated: 2025-12-29
- Relaxing exploration-focused gameplay experience
- Charming and memorable characters throughout
- Heartwarming and emotional story moments
- Beautiful visuals and art style design
- Camera issues disrupt gameplay flow
- No in-game map frustrates navigation
Emotions
Joy26%Nostalgia8%Relaxation7%Frustration6%Satisfaction6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 20,735
- Positive
- 20,56199.2%
- Negative
- 1740.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,545,507
- Estimated revenue
- $12,348,601
- Game price
- $8
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 180.56%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,342
- Estimated revenue lost
- $10,723
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 180.6% Avg playtime 0.9h | 53316.7% Avg playtime 1.4h |
| > 2h playtime | 190.6% Avg playtime 5.9h | 2,62182.1% Avg playtime 6.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 9.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 72.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,343.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,191 total
Organic purchasers2,71585.1%
Voted up: 99%
Key activations47614.9%
Voted up: 99%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,191 total
First impression0-2h73423.0%
Voted up: 97%
Mid game2-10h2,29571.9%
Voted up: 99%
Late game10-20h1314.11%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+310.97%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
98.1%
Global baseline 98.8%
265 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 20,735 total.