Shady Knight Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-06
- Challenging, fast-paced, and smooth combat mechanics.
- Highly enjoyable and stylish gameplay experience.
- High replay value and satisfying weapon techniques.
- Confusing, repetitive level design and frustrating enemies.
- Inconsistent difficulty and unintuitive gimmicks.
- Short length and lack of music variety.
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
- 909
- Positive
- 84993.4%
- Negative
- 606.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 66,530
- Estimated revenue
- $1,329,935
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 123.93%
- Estimated copies lost
- 878
- Estimated revenue lost
- $17,551
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 123.9% Avg playtime 1h | 196.2% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 175.6% Avg playtime 5.7h | 25784.3% Avg playtime 20.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 39.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 559.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
305 total
Organic purchasers28091.8%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations258.20%
Voted up: 88%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
305 total
First impression0-2h5217.0%
Voted up: 77%
Mid game2-10h16353.4%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h4414.4%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+4615.1%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 90.5%
6 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 909 total.