The Test: Hypothesis Rising Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-04
- Sequel improves on original
- Enjoyable and memorable experience
- Deeper and varied questions
- Eerie horror atmosphere
- Inaccurate and generic analysis
- Font is hard to read
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,923
- Positive
- 5,78097.6%
- Negative
- 1432.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 467,866
- Estimated revenue
- $931,053
- Game price
- $2
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 168.16%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,264
- Estimated revenue lost
- $2,515
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 168.2% Avg playtime 0.7h | 16383.2% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 21% Avg playtime 3.6h | 157.7% Avg playtime 3.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 7.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,316.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
196 total
Organic purchasers19096.9%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations63.06%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
196 total
First impression0-2h18393.4%
Voted up: 91%
Mid game2-10h136.63%
Voted up: 85%
Late game10-20h00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 90.8%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,923 total.