Zapling Bygone Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-22
- Excellent Metroidvania experience overall
- Pleasant soundtrack and music
- Responsive and tight controls
- Map causes navigation frustration
- Technical bugs and crashes
- Combat is weak and unsatisfactory
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
- 198
- Positive
- 15980.3%
- Negative
- 3919.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 14,348
- Estimated revenue
- $229,425
- Game price
- $16
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 65.83%
- Estimated copies lost
- 435
- Estimated revenue lost
- $6,956
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 65.8% Avg playtime 0.7h | 76.8% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 2120.4% Avg playtime 7h | 6967% Avg playtime 9.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 6.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,424.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
103 total
Organic purchasers5654.4%
Voted up: 79%
Key activations4745.6%
Voted up: 68%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
103 total
First impression0-2h2019.4%
Voted up: 70%
Mid game2-10h6866.0%
Voted up: 72%
Late game10-20h1110.7%
Voted up: 91%
Endgame20h+43.88%
Voted up: 75%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
75.0%
Global baseline 73.8%
4 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 198 total.