Card Shark Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-27
- Beautiful and unique art style
- Teaches real card cheating techniques
- Charming and fun gameplay
- Compelling story with twists
- Gameplay is monotonous QTE
- Mouse controls unresponsive
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
- 3,286
- Positive
- 2,95790.0%
- Negative
- 32910.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 260,328
- Estimated revenue
- $5,203,957
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 852.59%
- Estimated copies lost
- 6,734
- Estimated revenue lost
- $134,613
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 852.6% Avg playtime 1.1h | 2276.9% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 2447.4% Avg playtime 7.2h | 2,73083.1% Avg playtime 11.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 179.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,607.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,286 total
Organic purchasers2,99691.2%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations2908.83%
Voted up: 89%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,286 total
First impression0-2h53516.3%
Voted up: 81%
Mid game2-10h2,11264.3%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h56017.0%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+792.40%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.4%
Global baseline 90.0%
111 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 3,286 total.