Hive Blight Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Positive overall reception
- Excellent roguelite autobattler
- Educational bug facts
- Unit and item balance problems
- Balance issues and difficulty spikes
- Low replayability and variety
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
- 406
- Positive
- 38394.3%
- Negative
- 235.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 28,649
- Estimated revenue
- $357,826
- Game price
- $12
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 71.72%
- Estimated copies lost
- 494
- Estimated revenue lost
- $6,170
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 71.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 307.4% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 163.9% Avg playtime 16.6h | 35386.9% Avg playtime 22.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 90.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 216 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
406 total
Organic purchasers37993.3%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations276.65%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
406 total
First impression0-2h8320.4%
Voted up: 92%
Mid game2-10h20350.0%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h7217.7%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+4811.8%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 94.3%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 406 total.