Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Last updated: 2025-12-23
- Exceptional hand-to-hand combat system
- Engaging and emotional undercover story
- High replay value and content
- Repetitive and empty open world
- Poor vehicle handling and physics
- Weak gunplay mechanics
Emotions
Excitement20%Frustration13%Satisfaction12%Nostalgia9%Disappointment7%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 73,308
- Positive
- 68,80993.9%
- Negative
- 4,4996.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,285,839
- Estimated revenue
- $105,663,922
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 550.64%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,966
- Estimated revenue lost
- $79,280
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 550.6% Avg playtime 0.9h | 2442.8% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 2893.3% Avg playtime 22.9h | 8,05993.2% Avg playtime 32.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 29.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 132.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,094 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
8,647 total
Organic purchasers7,80090.2%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations8479.80%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
8,647 total
First impression0-2h4835.59%
Voted up: 86%
Mid game2-10h2,20825.5%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h2,34227.1%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+3,61441.8%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.7%
Global baseline 96.0%
207 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 73,308 total.