Cruelty Squad Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-11
- Highly recommended overall
- Incredibly unique immersive sim
- Tight and fun gameplay
- Harsh visuals may trigger seizures
- Steep learning curve initially
- Brilliant on sale
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMmixedWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 24,708
- Positive
- 23,73096.0%
- Negative
- 9784.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,672,584
- Estimated revenue
- $33,434,954
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1162.94%
- Estimated copies lost
- 7,853
- Estimated revenue lost
- $156,981
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1162.9% Avg playtime 0.7h | 2636.7% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1694.3% Avg playtime 15.2h | 3,40386.1% Avg playtime 25.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 14 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 90.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,995.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,951 total
Organic purchasers3,62891.8%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations3238.18%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,951 total
First impression0-2h51513.0%
Voted up: 76%
Mid game2-10h1,31433.3%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h98524.9%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+1,13728.8%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
86.8%
Global baseline 92.8%
38 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 24,708 total.