Darkest Dungeon® Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-03
- Praised Gothic Art Style
- Engaging Turn-Based Gameplay
- Deep and Immersive Storyline
- Frustrating RNG mechanics
- Unbalanced and unfair gameplay
- Excessive grinding required
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMmixedWindows 12-15GB 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
- 158,914
- Positive
- 145,72791.7%
- Negative
- 13,1878.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 11,229,111
- Estimated revenue
- $280,615,484
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 770.65%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,441
- Estimated revenue lost
- $135,971
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 770.7% Avg playtime 1h | 1501.3% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 9968.4% Avg playtime 76.6h | 10,61889.7% Avg playtime 117.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 25.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 156.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,105.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
11,841 total
Organic purchasers10,04184.8%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations1,80015.2%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
11,841 total
First impression0-2h3382.85%
Voted up: 71%
Mid game2-10h2,25119.0%
Voted up: 87%
Late game10-20h1,68114.2%
Voted up: 90%
Endgame20h+7,57163.9%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
82.4%
Global baseline 90.9%
131 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 158,914 total.