Idle Research Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-12
- Smooth and satisfying progression
- Enjoyable and diverse gameplay experience
- Free-to-play friendly with well-designed mechanics
- Game abandoned and incomplete
- Repetitive and boring gameplay
- Save file issues and confusing mechanics
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
- 1,847
- Positive
- 1,55684.2%
- Negative
- 29115.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 116,806
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 134.61%
- Estimated copies lost
- 822
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 134.6% Avg playtime 0.5h | 165.7% Avg playtime 0.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 4917.4% Avg playtime 159.9h | 20472.3% Avg playtime 155.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 13.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,380.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
282 total
Organic purchasers282100.0%
Voted up: 78%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
282 total
First impression0-2h3512.4%
Voted up: 63%
Mid game2-10h3010.6%
Voted up: 83%
Late game10-20h3311.7%
Voted up: 82%
Endgame20h+18465.2%
Voted up: 79%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 78.0%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,847 total.