Garden Story Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-03
- Beautiful pixel art visuals
- Cute and adorable characters
- Excellent and pleasant music
- Repetitive gameplay
- Clunky controls
- No cloud saves
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
- 1,741
- Positive
- 1,55589.3%
- Negative
- 18610.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 131,528
- Estimated revenue
- $2,629,245
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 663.79%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,986
- Estimated revenue lost
- $99,670
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 673.8% Avg playtime 0.8h | 472.7% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1196.8% Avg playtime 15.4h | 1,50886.6% Avg playtime 25.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 84.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,908 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,741 total
Organic purchasers1,41281.1%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations32918.9%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,741 total
First impression0-2h1639.36%
Voted up: 55%
Mid game2-10h41023.5%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h58133.4%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+58733.7%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
79.5%
Global baseline 89.3%
88 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,741 total.