House Builder Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-10
- Engaging and fun gameplay
- Relaxing and cozy experience
- Realistic house building simulation
- Buggy and janky game
- Repetitive and boring gameplay
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 2,593
- Positive
- 2,07279.9%
- Negative
- 52120.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 185,138
- Estimated revenue
- $3,700,909
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 216.93%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,499
- Estimated revenue lost
- $29,965
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 216.9% Avg playtime 0.8h | 72.3% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 7725.4% Avg playtime 14.9h | 19865.3% Avg playtime 26.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 11.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,761.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
303 total
Organic purchasers23677.9%
Voted up: 68%
Key activations6722.1%
Voted up: 67%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
303 total
First impression0-2h3812.5%
Voted up: 37%
Mid game2-10h12842.2%
Voted up: 66%
Late game10-20h6621.8%
Voted up: 73%
Endgame20h+7123.4%
Voted up: 83%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
0.0%
Global baseline 67.7%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,593 total.