The First Descendant Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Beautiful graphics and visuals praised
- Fun gameplay with diverse builds
- Frequent content updates improve experience
- Excessive grinding required for progress
- Repetitive missions and gameplay loop
- Performance issues and frequent crashes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMnegativeWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 111,500
- Positive
- 64,03157.4%
- Negative
- 47,46942.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,164,760
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5176.24%
- Estimated copies lost
- 37,858
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5196.3% Avg playtime 0.8h | 1812.2% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,44729.6% Avg playtime 335.3h | 5,13362% Avg playtime 360.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 10.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 13.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 655.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 770.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
8,280 total
Organic purchasers8,280100.0%
Voted up: 64%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
8,280 total
First impression0-2h8129.81%
Voted up: 31%
Mid game2-10h1,49818.1%
Voted up: 66%
Late game10-20h7839.46%
Voted up: 69%
Endgame20h+5,18762.6%
Voted up: 68%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
45.2%
Global baseline 64.2%
31 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 111,500 total.