The Binding of Isaac Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-07
- Highly praised game quality and addictive gameplay.
- Great value for money and immersive soundtrack.
- Unique gaming experience with variety of items.
- High difficulty and punitive, unfair room layouts.
- Outdated Flash engine with performance issues.
- Lack of controller support and full-screen mode.
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
- 62,196
- Positive
- 58,91394.7%
- Negative
- 3,2835.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 4,696,758
- Estimated revenue
- $23,436,822
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1033.60%
- Estimated copies lost
- 7,778
- Estimated revenue lost
- $38,812
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1033.6% Avg playtime 0.8h | 2378.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1946.8% Avg playtime 32.8h | 2,32781.3% Avg playtime 64h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 6.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 44.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,045.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,861 total
Organic purchasers2,53888.7%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations32311.3%
Voted up: 88%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,861 total
First impression0-2h49317.2%
Voted up: 77%
Mid game2-10h1,11839.1%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h43115.1%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+81928.6%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
84.6%
Global baseline 89.6%
13 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 62,196 total.