The Roottrees are Dead
Last updated: 2025-12-31
- Engaging puzzle-solving mechanics with high satisfaction
- Nostalgic and immersive atmosphere enhances experience
- Excellent localization for text-heavy narrative content
- Excessive backtracking and reading frustrate players
- Unfair and overly difficult puzzles break immersion
- Anticlimactic and unresolved ending disappoints fans
Emotions
Frustration18%Satisfaction15%Excitement12%Enjoyment10%Disappointment5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 4,655
- Positive
- 4,54597.6%
- Negative
- 1102.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 349,485
- Estimated revenue
- $6,986,205
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 200.43%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,502
- Estimated revenue lost
- $30,025
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 200.4% Avg playtime 0.7h | 250.5% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 901.9% Avg playtime 12.1h | 4,51997.1% Avg playtime 17.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 13.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 21.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 918 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 349.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
4,654 total
Organic purchasers4,51897.1%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations1362.92%
Voted up: 99%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
4,654 total
First impression0-2h942.02%
Voted up: 76%
Mid game2-10h1,80838.8%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h1,98942.7%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+76316.4%
Voted up: 99%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
97.8%
Global baseline 97.6%
89 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 4,655 total.