Stellaris Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-24
- Strong core gameplay
- Deep exploration and customization
- DLC pricing is excessive
- DLC required for completeness
- Late-game performance problems
- Tutorial is inadequate
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMnegativeWindows 8-11GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 199,505
- Positive
- 169,26784.8%
- Negative
- 30,23815.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 13,363,032
- Estimated revenue
- $668,017,970
- Game price
- $50
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1581.07%
- Estimated copies lost
- 10,583
- Estimated revenue lost
- $529,044
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1581.1% Avg playtime 0.7h | 830.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,67524.8% Avg playtime 599.8h | 10,91073.6% Avg playtime 406.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 41.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 231.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,696.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
14,826 total
Organic purchasers10,79772.8%
Voted up: 75%
Key activations4,02927.2%
Voted up: 72%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
14,826 total
First impression0-2h3212.17%
Voted up: 43%
Mid game2-10h1,3889.36%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h1,1247.58%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+11,99380.9%
Voted up: 73%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.8%
Global baseline 74.1%
41 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 199,505 total.