Dead Effect Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-12
- Good graphics for its era
- Good weapon variety and upgrades
- Great value for price
- Story is cliché and generic
- Low enemy and level variety
- Voice acting is terrible
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 3,766
- Positive
- 2,75173.0%
- Negative
- 1,01527.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 280,693
- Estimated revenue
- $1,400,658
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 179.39%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,267
- Estimated revenue lost
- $6,322
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 179.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 63.3% Avg playtime 0.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 3619.9% Avg playtime 8.2h | 12267.4% Avg playtime 66.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,468.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
181 total
Organic purchasers13474.0%
Voted up: 71%
Key activations4726.0%
Voted up: 70%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
181 total
First impression0-2h2815.5%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h10457.5%
Voted up: 74%
Late game10-20h3519.3%
Voted up: 83%
Endgame20h+147.73%
Voted up: 86%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
50.0%
Global baseline 70.7%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 3,766 total.