Unemployment Simulator 2018 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-09
- Highly entertaining and engaging
- Unique and absurd story
- Great pixel art visuals
- Bugs and glitches frequent
- Repetitive gameplay loop
- Poor ending and lackluster
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
- 145
- Positive
- 12284.1%
- Negative
- 2315.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 11,572
- Estimated revenue
- $115,604
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 128.28%
- Estimated copies lost
- 958
- Estimated revenue lost
- $9,570
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 128.3% Avg playtime 0.7h | 2718.6% Avg playtime 1.4h |
| > 2h playtime | 117.6% Avg playtime 4.3h | 9565.5% Avg playtime 4.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 82 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 217.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
145 total
Organic purchasers12989.0%
Voted up: 83%
Key activations1611.0%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
145 total
First impression0-2h5537.9%
Voted up: 76%
Mid game2-10h8760.0%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h32.07%
Voted up: 67%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
75.0%
Global baseline 84.1%
4 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 145 total.