The Desolate Hope Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-02
- Beautiful and unique visuals
- Compelling and unique story
- Challenging and satisfying combat
- Control problems and gameplay issues
- Unclear story and mechanics
- Grinding required and repetitive gameplay
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
- 1,785
- Positive
- 1,64992.4%
- Negative
- 1367.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 98,551
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 62.20%
- Estimated copies lost
- 331
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 62.2% Avg playtime 0.5h | 7527.5% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 51.8% Avg playtime 14.9h | 18768.5% Avg playtime 12.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 4.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,406.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
273 total
Organic purchasers124.40%
Voted up: 100%
Key activations26195.6%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
273 total
First impression0-2h9635.2%
Voted up: 94%
Mid game2-10h12244.7%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h4115.0%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+145.13%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.0%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,785 total.