FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-01
- High-quality visuals and design
- Great story and characters
- Unique and satisfying combat
- Clunky and unresponsive controls
- Long animations hinder gameplay
- Frequent crashes and instability
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 6,466
- Positive
- 5,34682.7%
- Negative
- 1,12017.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 460,218
- Estimated revenue
- $18,404,118
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 222.96%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,566
- Estimated revenue lost
- $62,624
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 223% Avg playtime 0.8h | 344.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 8611.6% Avg playtime 15.5h | 60080.9% Avg playtime 26.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 30.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,707.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
742 total
Organic purchasers56375.9%
Voted up: 87%
Key activations17924.1%
Voted up: 82%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
742 total
First impression0-2h9012.1%
Voted up: 66%
Mid game2-10h21729.2%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h22430.2%
Voted up: 88%
Endgame20h+21128.4%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.8%
Global baseline 85.4%
11 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 6,466 total.