Aaru's Awakening Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Stunning hand-drawn art praised
- Unique teleportation mechanic stands out
- Challenging yet fair platforming
- Excessive and frustrating difficulty
- Clunky and unresponsive controls
- Gamepad support broken
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 137
- Positive
- 9569.3%
- Negative
- 4230.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 10,450
- Estimated revenue
- $156,646
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1817.82%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,373
- Estimated revenue lost
- $20,581
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1817.8% Avg playtime 0.4h | 2726.7% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 1312.9% Avg playtime 6.9h | 4342.6% Avg playtime 6.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,109.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
101 total
Organic purchasers2625.7%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations7574.3%
Voted up: 68%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
101 total
First impression0-2h4847.5%
Voted up: 60%
Mid game2-10h4443.6%
Voted up: 80%
Late game10-20h76.93%
Voted up: 57%
Endgame20h+21.98%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 69.3%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 137 total.