Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-21
- Fun and engaging gameplay
- Classic Half-Life Deathmatch experience
- Variety of well-designed maps
- Game and servers are dead
- Game is extremely buggy
- Cheaters ruining experience
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,455
- Positive
- 4,11275.4%
- Negative
- 1,34324.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 387,720
- Estimated revenue
- $3,873,323
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 12414.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 8,813
- Estimated revenue lost
- $88,042
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 12414.5% Avg playtime 0.5h | 33939.6% Avg playtime 0.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 556.4% Avg playtime 19.7h | 33739.4% Avg playtime 234.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 11.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,596.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
855 total
Organic purchasers58868.8%
Voted up: 78%
Key activations26731.2%
Voted up: 81%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
854 total
First impression0-2h51960.7%
Voted up: 74%
Mid game2-10h24929.1%
Voted up: 87%
Late game10-20h323.74%
Voted up: 84%
Endgame20h+546.32%
Voted up: 87%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
83.3%
Global baseline 79.1%
6 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,455 total.