Split Fiction Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-08
- Excellent core gameplay loop
- Great co-op experience overall
- Creative and varied mechanics
- Story is cliché and shallow
- Difficulty causes cooperative frustration
- Technical issues and poor optimization
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 123,007
- Positive
- 119,31897.0%
- Negative
- 3,6893.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 7,438,065
- Estimated revenue
- $371,828,869
- Game price
- $50
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1510.40%
- Estimated copies lost
- 9,131
- Estimated revenue lost
- $456,459
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1510.4% Avg playtime 1.1h | 4471.2% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,4013.7% Avg playtime 15.2h | 36,05794.7% Avg playtime 21.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 77.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 70.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 4,933.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 488.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
38,056 total
Organic purchasers22,79059.9%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations15,26640.1%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
38,056 total
First impression0-2h9832.58%
Voted up: 82%
Mid game2-10h7,14118.8%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h21,39956.2%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+8,53322.4%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.8%
Global baseline 95.9%
307 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 123,007 total.