Tears of Metal Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-14
- Highly fun and enjoyable
- Satisfying combat feel
- Hack-and-slash combat core
- Multiplayer desync and lag
- Frequent frame drops and crashes
- Content limited for current price
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 2,508
- Positive
- 2,15285.8%
- Negative
- 35614.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 155,155
- Estimated revenue
- $3,877,323
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 893.55%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,506
- Estimated revenue lost
- $137,595
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 913.6% Avg playtime 1h | 1034.1% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 26510.6% Avg playtime 16.6h | 2,04981.7% Avg playtime 23.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 47.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 8.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 53.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,508 total
Organic purchasers2,32692.7%
Voted up: 86%
Key activations1827.26%
Voted up: 88%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,508 total
First impression0-2h43417.3%
Voted up: 75%
Mid game2-10h1,25049.8%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h48919.5%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+33513.4%
Voted up: 88%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.7%
Global baseline 85.8%
82 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,508 total.