HEXSTORM: Tears of Arcadia Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-11
- Engaging tower defense gameplay
- Good graphics and art style
- Addictive and entertaining
- Poor balance and difficulty spikes
- Lack of tutorials and unclear mechanics
- Insufficient content and turret variety
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
- 71
- Positive
- 5577.5%
- Negative
- 1622.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,312
- Estimated revenue
- $47,755
- Game price
- $9
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 68.45%
- Estimated copies lost
- 449
- Estimated revenue lost
- $4,037
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 68.5% Avg playtime 0.6h | 1825.4% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1014.1% Avg playtime 4.8h | 3752.1% Avg playtime 8.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 99.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
71 total
Organic purchasers6591.5%
Voted up: 77%
Key activations68.45%
Voted up: 83%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
71 total
First impression0-2h3346.5%
Voted up: 82%
Mid game2-10h3650.7%
Voted up: 72%
Late game10-20h11.41%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+11.41%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 77.5%
4 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 71 total.