The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-22
- Extreme replayability and variety
- Gold standard roguelike gameplay
- Enormous content and unlockables
- Highly addictive gameplay loop
- Very difficult and punishing game
- DLC required for basic features
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 464,219
- Positive
- 449,34196.8%
- Negative
- 14,8783.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 23,756,500
- Estimated revenue
- $356,109,935
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 6610.60%
- Estimated copies lost
- 33,827
- Estimated revenue lost
- $507,067
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 6640.6% Avg playtime 0.7h | 6500.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 4,7804.3% Avg playtime 205.8h | 103,90294.5% Avg playtime 228.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 25.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 249.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 1,155.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,369.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
109,996 total
Organic purchasers101,04091.9%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations8,9568.14%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
109,996 total
First impression0-2h2,6932.45%
Voted up: 69%
Mid game2-10h22,11620.1%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h14,40613.1%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+70,78164.3%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.1%
Global baseline 95.1%
1,109 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 464,219 total.