Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Last updated: 2025-12-29
- Cozy and relaxing gameplay experience
- Charming art and engaging music
- Heartwarming story with environmental message
- Short playtime disappoints many players
- Simplistic and linear gameplay design
- Technical and graphical shortcomings present
Emotions
Players experience joy primarily due to the game's beautiful ambiance, relaxing nature-themed gameplay, and heartwarming storytelling. The cozy exploration, photography opportunities, and charming interactions with animals and NPCs create a consistently uplifting and immersive experience.
Frustration stems from repetitive or formulaic gameplay, technical issues like bugs and glitches, and poor controls. Players also express annoyance with slow movement speeds, lack of fast travel, and forced narrative segments that disrupt immersion or progression.
Satisfaction arises from completing tasks, achieving 100% completion, and witnessing tangible environmental improvements due to player actions. The game's simple yet fulfilling mechanics, lack of bugs, and positive ecological messaging contribute to a deeply rewarding experience.
The game's calming atmosphere, soft music, and stress-free gameplay loop create a relaxing experience. Players appreciate the tranquil exploration, lack of pressure, and the ability to enjoy the environment at a leisurely pace.
Disappointment is caused by the game's short length, lack of depth in activities, and repetitive tasks. Some players feel the game lacks polish, fails to meet expectations in storytelling or mechanics, or does not justify its price point.
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 7,395
- Positive
- 7,23197.8%
- Negative
- 1642.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 500,658
- Estimated revenue
- $8,506,179
- Game price
- $17
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 90.68%
- Estimated copies lost
- 609
- Estimated revenue lost
- $10,347
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 90.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 594.4% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 302.3% Avg playtime 4.7h | 1,23492.6% Avg playtime 5.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 33.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,844 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,332 total
Organic purchasers1,00175.2%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations33124.8%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,332 total
First impression0-2h957.13%
Voted up: 88%
Mid game2-10h1,20090.1%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h282.10%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+90.68%
Voted up: 89%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
96.6%
Global baseline 97.1%
89 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 7,395 total.