Death in the Water 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Excellent visual quality and animations
- Beautiful immersive underwater world design
- Fun, enjoyable gameplay with strong sound
- Repetitive gameplay loop lacks replay value
- AI-generated art and assets criticized
- Performance issues, bugs, and short length
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
- 1,860
- Positive
- 1,53782.6%
- Negative
- 32317.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 143,427
- Estimated revenue
- $2,149,971
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 4313.65%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,316
- Estimated revenue lost
- $49,707
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 4313.7% Avg playtime 0.8h | 3711.7% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 4113% Avg playtime 5.5h | 19461.6% Avg playtime 7.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 16.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,353.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
315 total
Organic purchasers25881.9%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations5718.1%
Voted up: 74%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
315 total
First impression0-2h10232.4%
Voted up: 56%
Mid game2-10h19060.3%
Voted up: 81%
Late game10-20h206.35%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+30.95%
Voted up: 67%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 73.3%
6 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,860 total.