Red Dead Redemption 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-04-10
- Stunning graphics and immersive gameplay experience
- Emotional story with exceptional character development
- Beautiful, detailed open world with diverse activities
- Slow gameplay pace and control issues
- Game crashes and technical bugs
- Linear missions and save system problems
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 864,797
- Positive
- 798,08692.3%
- Negative
- 66,7117.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 39,785,518
- Estimated revenue
- $2,386,733,225
- Game price
- $60
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1,2790.77%
- Estimated copies lost
- 58,841
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,529,872
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1,2840.8% Avg playtime 0.8h | 8410.5% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 11,0366.6% Avg playtime 99.5h | 153,23792.1% Avg playtime 126.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 72.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 472.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3,328.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,299.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
166,398 total
Organic purchasers152,47591.6%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations13,9238.37%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
166,398 total
First impression0-2h3,5382.13%
Voted up: 54%
Mid game2-10h30,36918.3%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h21,56213.0%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+110,92966.7%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
86.3%
Global baseline 92.6%
1,387 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 864,797 total.