The Pale Beyond Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-30
- Strong story and characters
- Beautiful and stunning art
- Great music and sound
- Choices lack real impact
- UI and bugs hinder play
- Difficulty is unforgiving and unfair
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
- 2,223
- Positive
- 1,97388.8%
- Negative
- 25011.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 153,110
- Estimated revenue
- $3,060,669
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 92.15%
- Estimated copies lost
- 620
- Estimated revenue lost
- $12,394
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 92.1% Avg playtime 0.5h | 112.6% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 5212.4% Avg playtime 8.5h | 34782.8% Avg playtime 16.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 20.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,250.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
419 total
Organic purchasers33078.8%
Voted up: 87%
Key activations8921.2%
Voted up: 80%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
419 total
First impression0-2h276.44%
Voted up: 56%
Mid game2-10h16539.4%
Voted up: 79%
Late game10-20h17241.1%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+5513.1%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
82.8%
Global baseline 85.4%
29 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,223 total.