(the) Gnorp Apologue Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-11
- Excellent idle game
- Charming visuals
- Highly addictive
- Very limited viable builds
- Build choices can brick runs
- Short length and little content
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 9,836
- Positive
- 9,33694.9%
- Negative
- 5005.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 778,368
- Estimated revenue
- $5,440,792
- Game price
- $7
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 140.92%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,108
- Estimated revenue lost
- $7,745
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 140.9% Avg playtime 0.8h | 60.4% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 17111.2% Avg playtime 18.1h | 1,33187.5% Avg playtime 47.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 101.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 939.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,522 total
Organic purchasers1,48397.4%
Voted up: 88%
Key activations392.56%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,522 total
First impression0-2h483.15%
Voted up: 63%
Mid game2-10h32921.6%
Voted up: 78%
Late game10-20h42728.1%
Voted up: 88%
Endgame20h+71847.2%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
90.5%
Global baseline 87.8%
21 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 9,836 total.