Nuclear Throne Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-24
- Best in roguelike genre
- Outstanding soundtrack and pixel art
- Great for roguelike newcomers
- Extremely high difficulty
- Limited content and depth
- No online multiplayer
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 19,623
- Positive
- 18,84796.0%
- Negative
- 7764.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,440,609
- Estimated revenue
- $17,272,902
- Game price
- $12
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 191.00%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,395
- Estimated revenue lost
- $16,726
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 191% Avg playtime 0.9h | 462.4% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 904.7% Avg playtime 49.8h | 1,74991.9% Avg playtime 114.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 29.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,593 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,904 total
Organic purchasers1,56081.9%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations34418.1%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,904 total
First impression0-2h1407.35%
Voted up: 86%
Mid game2-10h47324.8%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h26113.7%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+1,03054.1%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.3%
Global baseline 94.3%
45 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 19,623 total.