Signs of Life Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-10
- Fun and humorous gameplay
- Crafting system highly praised
- Active responsive developers
- Extremely slow update cadence
- Lack of content overall
- Clunky and confusing controls
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 854
- Positive
- 65376.5%
- Negative
- 20123.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 61,511
- Estimated revenue
- $922,050
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 465.39%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,313
- Estimated revenue lost
- $49,662
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 475.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 293.4% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 15418% Avg playtime 27.6h | 62473.1% Avg playtime 58.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 16.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,668.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
854 total
Organic purchasers72184.4%
Voted up: 76%
Key activations13315.6%
Voted up: 77%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
852 total
First impression0-2h10512.3%
Voted up: 50%
Mid game2-10h20824.4%
Voted up: 70%
Late game10-20h16519.3%
Voted up: 79%
Endgame20h+37443.8%
Voted up: 86%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 76.5%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 854 total.