Cave Story+
Last updated: 2025-12-27
- Engaging and deep storytelling experience
- Highly polished and enjoyable gameplay
- High replayability with multiple endings
- Extreme late-game difficulty spikes
- Floaty and slippery platforming controls
- Poorly optimized and buggy port issues
Emotions
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 7,836
- Positive
- 7,27492.8%
- Negative
- 5627.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 563,800
- Estimated revenue
- $8,451,362
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 112.27%
- Estimated copies lost
- 791
- Estimated revenue lost
- $11,857
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 132.7% Avg playtime 1h | 183.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 6613.6% Avg playtime 20.2h | 38780% Avg playtime 23h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 6.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,499.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
484 total
Organic purchasers37777.9%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations10722.1%
Voted up: 82%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
484 total
First impression0-2h459.30%
Voted up: 69%
Mid game2-10h21243.8%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h11924.6%
Voted up: 87%
Endgame20h+10822.3%
Voted up: 85%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.7%
Global baseline 83.7%
19 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 7,836 total.