Servant of the Lake Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-14
- Great Rusty Lake series entry
- Puzzles have balanced difficulty
- Classic atmosphere and beautiful visuals
- Shocking unexpected ending
- Widespread item disappearance bugs
- Game length too short
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
- 847
- Positive
- 81696.3%
- Negative
- 313.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 61,504
- Estimated revenue
- $491,417
- Game price
- $8
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 111.31%
- Estimated copies lost
- 799
- Estimated revenue lost
- $6,384
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 121.4% Avg playtime 1.5h | 364.3% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 192.3% Avg playtime 4.6h | 77192% Avg playtime 5.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1,270.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 27.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
838 total
Organic purchasers80095.5%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations384.53%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
838 total
First impression0-2h819.67%
Voted up: 79%
Mid game2-10h75289.7%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h30.36%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+20.24%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.3%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 847 total.