Ys Origin Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-17
- Excellent and fair boss fights
- Superb and memorable music
- Engaging and emotional story
- Repetitive three playthroughs required
- High difficulty and grind
- No Chinese language support
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 3,618
- Positive
- 3,36793.1%
- Negative
- 2516.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 258,797
- Estimated revenue
- $5,173,352
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 30.98%
- Estimated copies lost
- 215
- Estimated revenue lost
- $4,298
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 31% Avg playtime 1h | 62% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 216.8% Avg playtime 24.1h | 27790.2% Avg playtime 54.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 4.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,788.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
307 total
Organic purchasers26787.0%
Voted up: 92%
Key activations4013.0%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
307 total
First impression0-2h165.21%
Voted up: 81%
Mid game2-10h4314.0%
Voted up: 81%
Late game10-20h8728.3%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+16152.4%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.8%
Global baseline 92.2%
11 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 3,618 total.