As We Descend Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-11
- Beautiful art and visuals
- Engaging and fun gameplay
- Excellent roguelike deckbuilder mechanics
- Variety and unique mechanics
- Poor optimization and balance issues
- Lack of tutorial and story
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
- 1,195
- Positive
- 1,04587.4%
- Negative
- 15012.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 80,678
- Estimated revenue
- $1,612,753
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 352.93%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,363
- Estimated revenue lost
- $47,236
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 352.9% Avg playtime 1h | 383.2% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1159.6% Avg playtime 19.3h | 1,00784.3% Avg playtime 29.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 3.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 246 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 347.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,195 total
Organic purchasers1,13494.9%
Voted up: 88%
Key activations615.10%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,195 total
First impression0-2h13311.1%
Voted up: 71%
Mid game2-10h54345.4%
Voted up: 87%
Late game10-20h26722.3%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+25221.1%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 87.4%
23 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,195 total.