Hearts of Iron IV
Last updated: 2025-12-17
- Highly engaging and replayable gameplay
- Strong modding and DLC support available
- Accessible yet challenging learning curve
- Excessive and overpriced DLC practices
- Game-breaking bugs and AI issues
- Severe late-game performance degradation
Emotions
Frustration34%Disappointment13%Satisfaction9%Amusement7%Excitement5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 364,260
- Positive
- 324,19789.0%
- Negative
- 40,06311.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 23,034,032
- Estimated revenue
- $1,151,471,260
- Game price
- $50
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 2740.98%
- Estimated copies lost
- 17,326
- Estimated revenue lost
- $866,127
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 2771% Avg playtime 0.8h | 2721% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 5,99121.4% Avg playtime 753.6h | 21,42676.6% Avg playtime 555.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 8.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 138.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 501.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,469.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
27,966 total
Organic purchasers20,06471.7%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations7,90228.3%
Voted up: 68%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
27,966 total
First impression0-2h8332.98%
Voted up: 61%
Mid game2-10h2,5679.18%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h1,8346.56%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+22,73281.3%
Voted up: 77%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
86.4%
Global baseline 77.6%
66 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 364,260 total.