Shovel Knight Dig
Last updated: 2026-02-12
- Charming style and music
- Beautiful and polished graphics
- Fun and challenging bosses
- High difficulty and unfair mechanics
- Repetitive gameplay mechanics
- High price, low content
Emotions
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 861
- Positive
- 64374.7%
- Negative
- 21825.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 65,481
- Estimated revenue
- $1,636,370
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 137.10%
- Estimated copies lost
- 989
- Estimated revenue lost
- $24,715
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 137.1% Avg playtime 1.1h | 73.8% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 4223% Avg playtime 10.9h | 12166.1% Avg playtime 37.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 10.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,237.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
183 total
Organic purchasers16489.6%
Voted up: 70%
Key activations1910.4%
Voted up: 68%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
183 total
First impression0-2h2815.3%
Voted up: 50%
Mid game2-10h8445.9%
Voted up: 62%
Late game10-20h2413.1%
Voted up: 75%
Endgame20h+4725.7%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
73.3%
Global baseline 69.9%
15 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 861 total.