Beholder Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-31
- High overall game quality
- Multiple endings drive replayability
- Weighty moral choices
- Atmospheric and immersive experience
- Tedious and grindy gameplay
- Excessive difficulty and punishment
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 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
- 31,292
- Positive
- 28,67491.6%
- Negative
- 2,6188.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,359,070
- Estimated revenue
- $33,003,389
- Game price
- $14
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 600.19%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,523
- Estimated revenue lost
- $63,277
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 600.2% Avg playtime 0.9h | 2170.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,5588.2% Avg playtime 10.2h | 28,45790.9% Avg playtime 20h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 12.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 5.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 424.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,525.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
19,993 total
Organic purchasers13,89069.5%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations6,10330.5%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
19,993 total
First impression0-2h2,33811.7%
Voted up: 82%
Mid game2-10h11,40357.0%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h3,94719.7%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+2,30511.5%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
73.3%
Global baseline 92.3%
60 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 31,292 total.