Joy Malignant Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-06
- High replayability and meaningful choices
- Compelling story and characters
- Unique surreal art style
- Ending feels abrupt and unsatisfying
- Mosaic system feels inconsequential
- Very short playtime
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 81
- Positive
- 7997.5%
- Negative
- 22.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,766
- Estimated revenue
- $51,836
- Game price
- $9
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 11.23%
- Estimated copies lost
- 71
- Estimated revenue lost
- $638
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 11.2% Avg playtime 1.5h | 2530.9% Avg playtime 1.5h |
| > 2h playtime | 11.2% Avg playtime 4.4h | 5466.7% Avg playtime 3.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 83.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
81 total
Organic purchasers7491.4%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations78.64%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
81 total
First impression0-2h3239.5%
Voted up: 97%
Mid game2-10h4758.0%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h22.47%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 97.5%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 81 total.