The Black Watchmen
Last updated: 2025-12-30
- Rich lore and occult themes exploration
- Unique ARG-style real-world puzzle gameplay
- Educational cryptography and codebreaking skills
- Frustrating and unclear puzzle designs
- High difficulty requires significant time
- Lack of accessibility features included
Emotions
Excitement26%Frustration20%Satisfaction8%Curiosity8%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
- 744
- Positive
- 66188.8%
- Negative
- 8311.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 59,498
- Estimated revenue
- $594,385
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 54.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 400
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,996
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 54.5% Avg playtime 0.7h | 32.7% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 1412.6% Avg playtime 29.1h | 8980.2% Avg playtime 75.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,788.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
111 total
Organic purchasers9182.0%
Voted up: 85%
Key activations2018.0%
Voted up: 75%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
111 total
First impression0-2h119.91%
Voted up: 45%
Mid game2-10h4944.1%
Voted up: 86%
Late game10-20h1917.1%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+3228.8%
Voted up: 88%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 82.9%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 744 total.