POOLS Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-02
- Eerie and unsettling atmosphere
- Stunning visual design
- Exploration of liminal spaces
- Game crashes and performance issues
- Repetitive and monotonous gameplay
- Motion sickness issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMnegativeWindows 12-15GB 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
- 6,250
- Positive
- 5,94895.2%
- Negative
- 3024.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 489,303
- Estimated revenue
- $4,790,276
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 703.84%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,480
- Estimated revenue lost
- $53,649
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 703.8% Avg playtime 0.9h | 26614.6% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 301.6% Avg playtime 4.5h | 1,45679.9% Avg playtime 10.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 133.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 766.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,822 total
Organic purchasers1,74595.8%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations774.23%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,822 total
First impression0-2h48626.7%
Voted up: 85%
Mid game2-10h1,23767.9%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h754.12%
Voted up: 99%
Endgame20h+241.32%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
98.0%
Global baseline 94.5%
51 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 6,250 total.