Gnomes Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-03
- Excellent tower defense game
- Simple yet addictive gameplay
- Great roguelite tower defense mix
- Tower repositioning is tedious
- Excessive RNG reliance
- End game is punishing
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,816
- Positive
- 1,72795.1%
- Negative
- 894.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 143,222
- Estimated revenue
- $1,430,788
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 273.97%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,129
- Estimated revenue lost
- $21,269
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 274% Avg playtime 1h | 487.1% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 284.1% Avg playtime 13h | 57784.9% Avg playtime 28.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 88.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 516 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
680 total
Organic purchasers65796.6%
Voted up: 92%
Key activations233.38%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
680 total
First impression0-2h11717.2%
Voted up: 76%
Mid game2-10h29142.8%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h13820.3%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+13419.7%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
95.7%
Global baseline 91.9%
23 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,816 total.