Darkblade Ascent Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-16
- Great value for price
- Satisfying parry combat system
- Highly fun core gameplay
- Enjoyable and promising game
- Buggy and unfinished experience
- Repetitive gameplay and lack content
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
- 561
- Positive
- 45480.9%
- Negative
- 10719.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 46,653
- Estimated revenue
- $512,716
- Game price
- $11
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5313.38%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,408
- Estimated revenue lost
- $48,444
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5313.4% Avg playtime 0.6h | 4912.4% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 4110.4% Avg playtime 7.6h | 25363.9% Avg playtime 11.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 67.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 578.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
396 total
Organic purchasers38697.5%
Voted up: 76%
Key activations102.53%
Voted up: 70%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
396 total
First impression0-2h14837.4%
Voted up: 62%
Mid game2-10h18647.0%
Voted up: 85%
Late game10-20h5112.9%
Voted up: 80%
Endgame20h+112.78%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
76.9%
Global baseline 76.3%
13 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 561 total.