Wandering Sword Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-13
- Excellent wuxia atmosphere
- Overall quality highly praised
- Engaging storyline and characters
- Abundant side quests
- Obscure sidequests lack guidance
- Rushed ending and late story
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMnegativeWindows 12-15GB 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
- 45,370
- Positive
- 43,04394.9%
- Negative
- 2,3275.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,992,803
- Estimated revenue
- $74,790,147
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 400.40%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,639
- Estimated revenue lost
- $65,949
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 410.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 450.4% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 4954.9% Avg playtime 78.3h | 9,46994.2% Avg playtime 105.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 9.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 31.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 440.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,094.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
10,050 total
Organic purchasers6,95069.2%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations3,10030.8%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
10,050 total
First impression0-2h1271.26%
Voted up: 64%
Mid game2-10h9429.37%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h8718.67%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+8,11080.7%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.5%
Global baseline 94.7%
104 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 45,370 total.