Sons Of The Forest
Last updated: 2026-01-13
- Immersive and flexible building system
- Stunning and detailed graphics
- Highly enjoyable co-op experience
- Engaging exploration and storytelling
- Weak and fragmented story
- Poor optimization and performance issues
Emotions
Frustration22%Excitement14%Disappointment10%Satisfaction10%Fear6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 290,127
- Positive
- 255,67688.1%
- Negative
- 34,45111.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 20,739,809
- Estimated revenue
- $621,986,872
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5060.84%
- Estimated copies lost
- 36,172
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,084,798
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5090.8% Avg playtime 1h | 5771% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 5,2978.8% Avg playtime 38.2h | 53,73589.4% Avg playtime 55.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 57 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 333 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 2,640.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,054.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
60,118 total
Organic purchasers53,41488.8%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations6,70411.2%
Voted up: 90%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
60,118 total
First impression0-2h1,9333.22%
Voted up: 67%
Mid game2-10h14,80724.6%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h13,18321.9%
Voted up: 88%
Endgame20h+30,19550.2%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
86.9%
Global baseline 90.3%
99 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 290,127 total.