Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Great graphics for its age
- Enjoyable hack-and-slash combat
- Outstanding soundtrack and music
- Forced stealth sections universally disliked
- Underwhelming and less engaging story
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB 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
- 6,550
- Positive
- 5,54984.7%
- Negative
- 1,00115.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 504,483
- Estimated revenue
- $20,174,275
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1452.21%
- Estimated copies lost
- 11,168
- Estimated revenue lost
- $446,608
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1492.3% Avg playtime 1h | 1762.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 85213% Avg playtime 17.5h | 5,37382% Avg playtime 30.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 126.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,628.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
6,550 total
Organic purchasers4,91875.1%
Voted up: 85%
Key activations1,63224.9%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
6,544 total
First impression0-2h4987.60%
Voted up: 65%
Mid game2-10h1,66925.5%
Voted up: 80%
Late game10-20h2,24834.3%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+2,12932.5%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
74.0%
Global baseline 84.7%
50 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 6,550 total.