Wayward
Last updated: 2025-12-23
- Balanced and accessible gameplay mechanics
- High replayability and addiction potential
- Unique turn-based survival mechanics
- Active and responsive developer support
- Steep learning curve frustrates players
- Crafting system is tedious and unintuitive
Emotions
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,335
- Positive
- 1,15086.1%
- Negative
- 18513.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 93,128
- Estimated revenue
- $744,093
- Game price
- $8
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 63.87%
- Estimated copies lost
- 419
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,348
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 63.9% Avg playtime 1.3h | 106.5% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 127.7% Avg playtime 61.2h | 12781.9% Avg playtime 195.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,524.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
155 total
Organic purchasers14291.6%
Voted up: 88%
Key activations138.39%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
155 total
First impression0-2h2113.5%
Voted up: 71%
Mid game2-10h2616.8%
Voted up: 73%
Late game10-20h2314.8%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+8554.8%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 88.4%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,335 total.