Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Last updated: 2025-12-30
- Exceptional core gameplay loop with high engagement
- High replayability and strong progression system
- Strong co-op focus enhances teamwork experience
- Unfinished and unoptimized at launch
- Greedy monetization and aggressive DLC practices
- Unstable servers and frequent connectivity issues
Emotions
Frustration35%Disappointment19%Excitement8%Satisfaction7%Anger6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 126,608
- Positive
- 90,10971.2%
- Negative
- 36,49928.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,691,163
- Estimated revenue
- $347,559,608
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5322.57%
- Estimated copies lost
- 36,520
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,460,435
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5372.6% Avg playtime 1.1h | 780.4% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 5,55026.8% Avg playtime 244.3h | 14,54670.2% Avg playtime 235.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 18.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 131.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 786.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,135.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
20,711 total
Organic purchasers13,91867.2%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations6,79332.8%
Voted up: 66%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
20,711 total
First impression0-2h8734.22%
Voted up: 21%
Mid game2-10h3,09614.9%
Voted up: 71%
Late game10-20h2,43011.7%
Voted up: 78%
Endgame20h+14,31269.1%
Voted up: 72%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.5%
Global baseline 70.6%
54 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 126,608 total.