When The Past Was Around
Last updated: 2025-12-30
- Emotional storytelling through stunning visuals
- Beautiful hand-drawn art style captivates
- Captivating soundtrack enhances emotional depth
- Tedious gameplay mechanics slow progress
- Short playtime reduces overall value
- Technical issues and bugs disrupt experience
Emotions
Appreciation13%Nostalgia9%Frustration9%Sadness7%Disappointment6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 4,216
- Positive
- 4,02295.4%
- Negative
- 1944.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 312,717
- Estimated revenue
- $2,498,609
- Game price
- $8
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 142.92%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,038
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,294
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 142.9% Avg playtime 1.2h | 16935.2% Avg playtime 1.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 163.3% Avg playtime 3.3h | 28158.5% Avg playtime 3.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 15.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,924.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
480 total
Organic purchasers40384.0%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations7716.0%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
480 total
First impression0-2h20642.9%
Voted up: 93%
Mid game2-10h27056.3%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h40.83%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.3%
Global baseline 93.8%
15 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 4,216 total.