The Headlands Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-18
- Overwhelmingly positive player reception
- Relaxing and strategic farming gameplay
- High future potential expected
- Vehicles have pathfinding issues
- Limited content in early access
- Frequent crashes and save corruption
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
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 123
- Positive
- 12097.6%
- Negative
- 32.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,167
- Estimated revenue
- $89,755
- Game price
- $11
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 21.67%
- Estimated copies lost
- 133
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,462
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 21.7% Avg playtime 1.1h | 1210% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 10.8% Avg playtime 11.8h | 10587.5% Avg playtime 6.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 35.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
120 total
Organic purchasers11797.5%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations32.50%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
120 total
First impression0-2h3226.7%
Voted up: 94%
Mid game2-10h8066.7%
Voted up: 100%
Late game10-20h86.67%
Voted up: 88%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 97.5%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 123 total.