Smelter Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-31
- Tight action-platforming gameplay
- Excellent creative boss fights
- Outstanding audio quality
- Clunky unresponsive controls
- Unfair difficulty with cheap deaths
- Game-breaking bugs persist
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 213
- Positive
- 15170.9%
- Negative
- 6229.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 16,853
- Estimated revenue
- $336,891
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 76.93%
- Estimated copies lost
- 554
- Estimated revenue lost
- $11,074
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 76.9% Avg playtime 1h | 44% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 2221.8% Avg playtime 16.2h | 6867.3% Avg playtime 18.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,894.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
101 total
Organic purchasers8180.2%
Voted up: 64%
Key activations2019.8%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
101 total
First impression0-2h1716.8%
Voted up: 53%
Mid game2-10h3938.6%
Voted up: 72%
Late game10-20h2928.7%
Voted up: 83%
Endgame20h+1615.8%
Voted up: 69%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 71.3%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 213 total.