Security 51 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-13
- Excellent pixel art and atmosphere
- Worthy successor to Papers Please
- Smooth difficulty and gradual mechanics
- Difficulty is too low overall
- Weak story and narrative engagement
- Upgrades are expensive and useless
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 115
- Positive
- 8977.4%
- Negative
- 2622.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,851
- Estimated revenue
- $88,421
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1714.78%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,308
- Estimated revenue lost
- $13,067
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1714.8% Avg playtime 0.6h | 3328.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 97.8% Avg playtime 3.8h | 5648.7% Avg playtime 4.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 158.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.8 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
115 total
Organic purchasers11297.4%
Voted up: 77%
Key activations32.61%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
115 total
First impression0-2h6960.0%
Voted up: 75%
Mid game2-10h4640.0%
Voted up: 80%
Late game10-20h00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 77.4%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 115 total.