XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Last updated: 2025-12-21
- High replayability and long-lasting gameplay
- Turn-based combat praised for excellence
- Mods and DLC significantly enhance experience
- Game launch failures after recent updates
- Frustrating RNG mechanics in combat
- Frequent crashes causing progress loss
Emotions
Frustration30%Satisfaction11%Nostalgia7%Excitement6%Disappointment6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 57,492
- Positive
- 53,58093.2%
- Negative
- 3,9126.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,865,768
- Estimated revenue
- $115,934,382
- Game price
- $30
- Review โ sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 542.12%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,631
- Estimated revenue lost
- $108,894
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment ร Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| โค 2h playtime | 552.2% Avg playtime 0.8h | 220.9% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 60023.6% Avg playtime 96.9h | 1,86673.4% Avg playtime 176.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 5.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 48.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,492.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,543 total
Organic purchasers1,87173.6%
Voted up: 74%
Key activations67226.4%
Voted up: 74%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,543 total
First impression0-2h943.70%
Voted up: 30%
Mid game2-10h32012.6%
Voted up: 69%
Late game10-20h27710.9%
Voted up: 73%
Endgame20h+1,85272.8%
Voted up: 78%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
68.8%
Global baseline 74.2%
32 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 57,492 total.