Emberward Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-18
- Fun tower defense gameplay
- Tetris-style maze building
- High replayability
- Lack of content and variety
- Gameplay becomes tiring quickly
- Tower balance issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 3,887
- Positive
- 3,77097.0%
- Negative
- 1173.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 269,650
- Estimated revenue
- $5,390,304
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 40.45%
- Estimated copies lost
- 277
- Estimated revenue lost
- $5,537
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 40.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 111.2% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 394.4% Avg playtime 82.1h | 83293.9% Avg playtime 86.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 71.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 814.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
886 total
Organic purchasers85796.7%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations293.27%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
886 total
First impression0-2h343.84%
Voted up: 88%
Mid game2-10h21324.0%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h18821.2%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+45150.9%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
95.5%
Global baseline 95.1%
22 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 3,887 total.