Permafrost Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Positive overall impression
- Stable performance overall
- Enjoyable open-world exploration
- Frozen apocalypse survival setting
- General bugs and crashes
- Poor animation quality
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 303
- Positive
- 23677.9%
- Negative
- 6722.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 18,685
- Estimated revenue
- $466,938
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 4916.39%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,022
- Estimated revenue lost
- $75,520
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 4916.4% Avg playtime 0.7h | 6020.1% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 196.4% Avg playtime 3.9h | 17157.2% Avg playtime 6.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 612.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 10 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
299 total
Organic purchasers24481.6%
Voted up: 74%
Key activations5518.4%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
299 total
First impression0-2h14749.2%
Voted up: 63%
Mid game2-10h13946.5%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h31.00%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+103.34%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 77.3%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 303 total.