Kenshi Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-01
- Freedom to explore and choose
- Rich and diverse world
- Immersive and engaging gameplay
- Poor optimization and performance
- Outdated and poor graphics
- Harsh and unforgiving gameplay
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 112,758
- Positive
- 107,77395.6%
- Negative
- 4,9854.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 7,941,357
- Estimated revenue
- $238,161,296
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1691.06%
- Estimated copies lost
- 11,902
- Estimated revenue lost
- $356,941
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1721.1% Avg playtime 0.9h | 2031.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 5423.4% Avg playtime 126.5h | 14,95494.2% Avg playtime 225.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 3.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 44.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 291.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,055.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
15,871 total
Organic purchasers13,34984.1%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations2,52215.9%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
15,871 total
First impression0-2h5463.44%
Voted up: 66%
Mid game2-10h1,99112.5%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h1,5459.73%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+11,78974.3%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.5%
Global baseline 95.5%
78 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 112,758 total.