- Strong modding community and engaging gameplay
- Emotional storytelling and unique characters
- Variety of gameplay styles and valuable DLC
- Performance and optimization issues reported
- Criticisms of DLC and game balance
- High cost and colonist behavior issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 236,270
- Positive
- 231,30597.9%
- Negative
- 4,9652.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 11,143,050
- Estimated revenue
- $389,895,320
- Game price
- $35
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 780.25%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,679
- Estimated revenue lost
- $128,728
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 780.2% Avg playtime 0.8h | 1140.4% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 8102.6% Avg playtime 398.3h | 30,29296.8% Avg playtime 608h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 8.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 69.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 516 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,544.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
31,294 total
Organic purchasers26,64085.1%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations4,65414.9%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
31,294 total
First impression0-2h3571.14%
Voted up: 75%
Mid game2-10h1,8966.06%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h1,8035.76%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+27,23887.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
96.0%
Global baseline 97.2%
227 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 236,270 total.