METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-09
- Outstanding overall game quality
- Exceptional soundtrack and music
- Spectacular unique combat system
- Frustrating unreliable camera system
- Confusing inconsistent parry mechanic
- Short game length and content
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB 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
- 89,230
- Positive
- 85,69596.0%
- Negative
- 3,5354.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,996,110
- Estimated revenue
- $179,823,339
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 460.85%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,091
- Estimated revenue lost
- $92,699
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 460.9% Avg playtime 1h | 921.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1923.6% Avg playtime 22.4h | 5,07393.9% Avg playtime 33.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 14.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 100.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,655.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
5,403 total
Organic purchasers3,98673.8%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations1,41726.2%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
5,403 total
First impression0-2h2013.72%
Voted up: 74%
Mid game2-10h1,68431.2%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h1,79733.3%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+1,72131.9%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
96.8%
Global baseline 95.6%
125 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 89,230 total.