The Elder Scrolls: Arena Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-10
- Historically significant and innovative
- Unique and engaging combat system
- Enjoyable dungeon crawling
- Unintuitive and challenging controls
- Poor graphics quality
- 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
- 2,463
- Positive
- 1,98080.4%
- Negative
- 48319.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 171,339
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5911.92%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,104
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5911.9% Avg playtime 0.6h | 11222.6% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 5310.7% Avg playtime 39.8h | 27154.7% Avg playtime 42.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 21.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,470.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
495 total
Organic purchasers495100.0%
Voted up: 77%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
495 total
First impression0-2h19138.6%
Voted up: 68%
Mid game2-10h10220.6%
Voted up: 83%
Late game10-20h489.70%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+15431.1%
Voted up: 82%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 77.4%
9 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,463 total.