NGU IDLE Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-16
- Best idle game ever
- Massive amount of content
- Deep and layered progression
- Extremely long playtime required
- Unpolished and unfinished content
- Slow and unrewarding progression
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 12,793
- Positive
- 12,23495.6%
- Negative
- 5594.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 847,569
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 111.16%
- Estimated copies lost
- 729
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 111.2% Avg playtime 0.8h | 202.1% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 495.2% Avg playtime 1,599h | 87191.6% Avg playtime 2,943.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 22.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,449.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
951 total
Organic purchasers951100.0%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
951 total
First impression0-2h424.42%
Voted up: 71%
Mid game2-10h596.20%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h454.73%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+80584.6%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.9%
Global baseline 93.7%
9 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 12,793 total.