Shadows of Forbidden Gods Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Diverse gods drive replayability
- Deep interconnected strategic systems
- Reactive world enhances immersion
- Terrible, clunky interface
- Poor mechanic explanations and onboarding
- Overwhelming information and cluttered UI
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
- 1,082
- Positive
- 99091.5%
- Negative
- 928.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 78,767
- Estimated revenue
- $1,574,552
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 32.54%
- Estimated copies lost
- 218
- Estimated revenue lost
- $4,358
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 32.5% Avg playtime 1h | 43.4% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1714.4% Avg playtime 41.3h | 9479.7% Avg playtime 62.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 23.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 364 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
118 total
Organic purchasers10891.5%
Voted up: 83%
Key activations108.47%
Voted up: 80%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
118 total
First impression0-2h75.93%
Voted up: 57%
Mid game2-10h2622.0%
Voted up: 65%
Late game10-20h2622.0%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+5950.0%
Voted up: 90%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
50.0%
Global baseline 83.1%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,082 total.