Spelunky Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-08
- Addictive and fun gameplay
- Excellent soundtrack
- Abundant secrets and hidden content
- Extremely high difficulty
- Instant death hazards
- Not worth playing
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 16,686
- Positive
- 15,37892.2%
- Negative
- 1,3087.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,275,028
- Estimated revenue
- $19,112,670
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 81.39%
- Estimated copies lost
- 611
- Estimated revenue lost
- $9,159
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 81.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 193.3% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 325.6% Avg playtime 48.3h | 51689.7% Avg playtime 105.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 8.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,805 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
575 total
Organic purchasers52391.0%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations529.04%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
575 total
First impression0-2h396.78%
Voted up: 79%
Mid game2-10h14024.3%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h9416.3%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+30252.5%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.8%
Global baseline 93.0%
22 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 16,686 total.