Banished
Last updated: 2025-12-17
- Exceptional city-building gameplay mechanics
- Strong modding community enhances replayability
- Balanced simplicity and depth in design
- Steep and punishing learning curve
- Insufficient base game content initially
- Performance and stability issues reported
Emotions
Frustration20%Satisfaction17%Enjoyment9%Disappointment5%Nostalgia5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 42,705
- Positive
- 38,60690.4%
- Negative
- 4,0999.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,053,325
- Estimated revenue
- $61,035,967
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 151.14%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,072
- Estimated revenue lost
- $21,429
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 151.1% Avg playtime 1.1h | 151.1% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 1017.7% Avg playtime 41.9h | 1,18790.1% Avg playtime 209.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 24.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,323.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,318 total
Organic purchasers1,14987.2%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations16912.8%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,318 total
First impression0-2h372.81%
Voted up: 57%
Mid game2-10h15912.1%
Voted up: 76%
Late game10-20h18013.7%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+94271.5%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
80.0%
Global baseline 91.2%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 42,705 total.