King's Bounty: Dark Side Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-09
- Strong entry in King's Bounty
- Engaging and nonlinear quests
- Enjoyable story with twists
- Frequent game crashes and instability
- Unclear quest objectives frustrate players
- Game too long and drawn out
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
- 1,942
- Positive
- 1,43573.9%
- Negative
- 50726.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 147,061
- Estimated revenue
- $1,910,322
- Game price
- $13
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 93.73%
- Estimated copies lost
- 682
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,859
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 93.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 83.3% Avg playtime 0.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 7430.7% Avg playtime 82.8h | 15062.2% Avg playtime 265.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 5.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,525.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
241 total
Organic purchasers18777.6%
Voted up: 63%
Key activations5422.4%
Voted up: 74%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
241 total
First impression0-2h239.54%
Voted up: 57%
Mid game2-10h218.71%
Voted up: 52%
Late game10-20h229.13%
Voted up: 73%
Endgame20h+17572.6%
Voted up: 67%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 65.6%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,942 total.