Ascend to ZERO Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-13
- High build variety options
- Beautiful and appealing art
- Rewarding out-of-run progression
- Engaging time-stop mechanic
- Too grindy at endgame
- Time limit interrupts fun
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 86
- Positive
- 8396.5%
- Negative
- 33.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,751
- Estimated revenue
- $68,954
- Game price
- $12
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 11.30%
- Estimated copies lost
- 67
- Estimated revenue lost
- $803
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 11.3% Avg playtime 0.6h | 2026% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 00% Avg playtime 0h | 5672.7% Avg playtime 5.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 188.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
77 total
Organic purchasers6077.9%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations1722.1%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
77 total
First impression0-2h3444.2%
Voted up: 97%
Mid game2-10h3748.1%
Voted up: 100%
Late game10-20h67.79%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 98.7%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 86 total.