The Binding of Isaac
Last updated: 2026-01-13
- Highly engaging and addictive gameplay experience
- Excellent value for money and affordability
- Endless replayability through procedural generation
- Challenging difficulty discourages new players
- Performance issues and frustrating bugs present
- Poor item balance and design frustrations
Emotions
Frustration24%Excitement10%Nostalgia9%Satisfaction8%Enjoyment6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 61,586
- Positive
- 58,38294.8%
- Negative
- 3,2045.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 4,635,225
- Estimated revenue
- $23,129,773
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 983.46%
- Estimated copies lost
- 7,376
- Estimated revenue lost
- $36,806
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 993.5% Avg playtime 0.8h | 2438.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1856.5% Avg playtime 33.8h | 2,30981.4% Avg playtime 61.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 43.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,931.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,836 total
Organic purchasers2,50888.4%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations32811.6%
Voted up: 90%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,836 total
First impression0-2h49317.4%
Voted up: 78%
Mid game2-10h1,10639.0%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h41514.6%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+82229.0%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
60.0%
Global baseline 90.0%
15 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 61,586 total.