GameMaker Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-10
- Great for learning game development
- Beginner-friendly and easy to use
- Powerful for 2D game creation
- Difficult for beginners
- Cluttered and confusing UI
- Frequent crashes and bugs
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
- 2,939
- Positive
- 2,62289.2%
- Negative
- 31710.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 194,716
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 323.22%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,120
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 323.2% Avg playtime 0.6h | 494.9% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 707% Avg playtime 193.9h | 84484.8% Avg playtime 300.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 36.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,466.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
995 total
Organic purchasers995100.0%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
995 total
First impression0-2h11511.6%
Voted up: 66%
Mid game2-10h24024.1%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h13613.7%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+50450.7%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 89.7%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,939 total.