SteamWorld Build Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Relaxing city-building experience
- Unique blend of genres
- Pleasant graphics and visuals
- Low replayability widely reported
- Maps lack gameplay variation
- Too easy and lacking challenge
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 2,296
- Positive
- 1,94384.6%
- Negative
- 35315.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 155,464
- Estimated revenue
- $3,885,045
- Game price
- $25
- Review â sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 142.49%
- Estimated copies lost
- 948
- Estimated revenue lost
- $23,691
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| †2h playtime | 142.5% Avg playtime 0.7h | 132.3% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 8515.1% Avg playtime 14.3h | 45080.1% Avg playtime 26.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 33.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,043.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
562 total
Organic purchasers35863.7%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations20436.3%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
562 total
First impression0-2h386.76%
Voted up: 55%
Mid game2-10h20636.7%
Voted up: 79%
Late game10-20h17831.7%
Voted up: 88%
Endgame20h+14024.9%
Voted up: 88%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
71.4%
Global baseline 82.4%
14 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,296 total.