Maxwell's puzzling demon Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-31
- Excellent puzzle design and mechanics
- Best Sokoban game available
- Large amount of content
- Extremely high difficulty level
- Overly complex Sokoban mechanics
- Lacks accessibility and quality-of-life
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
- 417
- Positive
- 40998.1%
- Negative
- 81.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 33,367
- Estimated revenue
- $500,171
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 10.46%
- Estimated copies lost
- 80
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,199
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 10.5% Avg playtime 0.8h | 83.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 31.4% Avg playtime 103.8h | 20694.5% Avg playtime 97h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 19.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 724 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
218 total
Organic purchasers21799.5%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations10.46%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
218 total
First impression0-2h209.17%
Voted up: 95%
Mid game2-10h4922.5%
Voted up: 100%
Late game10-20h2913.3%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+12055.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 98.2%
7 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 417 total.