Night Swarm Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-03
- Engaging gameplay with roguelite progression
- Great music and pleasing art style
- Abundant unlockables and strong meta progression
- Repetitive and monotonous gameplay
- Excessive grinding and slow progression
- Undisclosed AI-generated content and crashes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,277
- Positive
- 1,01879.7%
- Negative
- 25920.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 102,784
- Estimated revenue
- $1,026,812
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 534.15%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,266
- Estimated revenue lost
- $42,617
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 544.2% Avg playtime 0.9h | 352.7% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 20516.1% Avg playtime 21.8h | 98277% Avg playtime 27.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 547 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 299 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,276 total
Organic purchasers1,16090.9%
Voted up: 79%
Key activations1169.09%
Voted up: 89%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,276 total
First impression0-2h18114.2%
Voted up: 66%
Mid game2-10h58145.5%
Voted up: 83%
Late game10-20h24819.4%
Voted up: 81%
Endgame20h+26620.8%
Voted up: 80%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
80.0%
Global baseline 79.7%
35 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,277 total.