DREDGE Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-17
- Excellent and memorable soundtrack
- Atmospheric and immersive experience
- Lovecraftian horror theme succeeds
- Stunning and unique art style
- Gameplay loop feels repetitive
- Story ending disappoints players
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB 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
- 56,982
- Positive
- 54,60795.8%
- Negative
- 2,3754.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,981,634
- Estimated revenue
- $99,501,034
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 420.42%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,935
- Estimated revenue lost
- $73,346
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 420.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 700.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3693.7% Avg playtime 14h | 9,44495.2% Avg playtime 24.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 7.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 24.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 406.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,266.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
9,925 total
Organic purchasers8,15482.2%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations1,77117.8%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
9,925 total
First impression0-2h1601.61%
Voted up: 73%
Mid game2-10h2,59026.1%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h3,60336.3%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+3,57236.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.5%
Global baseline 95.9%
540 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 56,982 total.