Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-20
- Stunning graphics and visuals
- Brilliant and engaging story
- Aloy is a strong protagonist
- Abundant and worthwhile side quests
- Technical bugs and crashes
- Unengaging story
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 128,380
- Positive
- 112,93088.0%
- Negative
- 15,45012.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,560,568
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 391.26%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,601
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 391.3% Avg playtime 0.9h | 361.2% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 39112.6% Avg playtime 38.3h | 2,63084.9% Avg playtime 76.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 5.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 84.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,264.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,096 total
Organic purchasers2,22872.0%
Voted up: 86%
Key activations86828.0%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,096 total
First impression0-2h892.87%
Voted up: 53%
Mid game2-10h40913.2%
Voted up: 75%
Late game10-20h40313.0%
Voted up: 76%
Endgame20h+2,19570.9%
Voted up: 91%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
82.9%
Global baseline 86.1%
82 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 128,380 total.