Banished Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-22
- Top-tier city builder experience
- Relaxing and low-stress gameplay
- Core city-building gameplay praised
- Mods greatly enhance longevity
- Becomes boring and repetitive
- Villagers starve despite available food
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
- 43,395
- Positive
- 39,24590.4%
- Negative
- 4,1509.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,095,187
- Estimated revenue
- $61,872,788
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 100.90%
- Estimated copies lost
- 713
- Estimated revenue lost
- $14,253
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 100.9% Avg playtime 1.1h | 100.9% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 797.1% Avg playtime 41.2h | 1,00891.1% Avg playtime 224.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 21.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,632 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,107 total
Organic purchasers96086.7%
Voted up: 92%
Key activations14713.3%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,107 total
First impression0-2h282.53%
Voted up: 61%
Mid game2-10h17315.6%
Voted up: 80%
Late game10-20h16114.5%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+74567.3%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 92.0%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 43,395 total.