DARK SOULS™ III
Last updated: 2025-12-21
- Iconic and rewarding boss fights
- High replayability and build variety
- Challenging but fair difficulty
- Epic and immersive soundtrack
- Inconsistent and unfair hitboxes
- Poor enemy and trap design
Emotions
Frustration25%Satisfaction12%Excitement7%Disappointment7%Nostalgia6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 425,699
- Positive
- 401,60994.3%
- Negative
- 24,0905.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 25,741,436
- Estimated revenue
- $1,544,228,746
- Game price
- $60
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1180.48%
- Estimated copies lost
- 7,135
- Estimated revenue lost
- $428,029
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1190.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1740.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,4666% Avg playtime 86.8h | 22,63392.8% Avg playtime 113.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 6.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 77.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 423.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,529.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
24,392 total
Organic purchasers14,61759.9%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations9,77540.1%
Voted up: 93%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
24,392 total
First impression0-2h4902.01%
Voted up: 69%
Mid game2-10h2,67411.0%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h2,47210.1%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+18,75676.9%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
90.2%
Global baseline 93.5%
297 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 425,699 total.