Message From Aliens Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-03
- Rich worldbuilding and lore
- Unique alien language deciphering
- Rewarding aha moments
- Educational value in STEM
- Extremely high difficulty
- Severe crash instability
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
- 102
- Positive
- 9896.1%
- Negative
- 43.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 7,465
- Estimated revenue
- $74,575
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 10.98%
- Estimated copies lost
- 73
- Estimated revenue lost
- $729
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 11% Avg playtime 0.3h | 2726.5% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 32.9% Avg playtime 3.9h | 7169.6% Avg playtime 9.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 120 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
102 total
Organic purchasers9997.1%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations32.94%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
102 total
First impression0-2h4544.1%
Voted up: 98%
Mid game2-10h4948.0%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h65.88%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+21.96%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.1%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 102 total.