Death Must Die Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-31
- Highly enjoyable and polished gameplay
- Diverse skill trees and builds
- Beautiful pixel art and sound
- Lack of updates and communication
- Missing language localizations
- Limited maps and content
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
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 21,727
- Positive
- 19,57790.1%
- Negative
- 2,1509.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,545,356
- Estimated revenue
- $10,802,038
- Game price
- $7
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 211.57%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,494
- Estimated revenue lost
- $10,443
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 211.6% Avg playtime 1.1h | 191.4% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 26519.8% Avg playtime 47.2h | 1,03177.2% Avg playtime 52.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 85.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,020 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,336 total
Organic purchasers1,27095.1%
Voted up: 79%
Key activations664.94%
Voted up: 80%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,336 total
First impression0-2h695.16%
Voted up: 68%
Mid game2-10h31123.3%
Voted up: 78%
Late game10-20h25118.8%
Voted up: 80%
Endgame20h+70552.8%
Voted up: 79%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
75.0%
Global baseline 78.6%
60 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 21,727 total.