Monsters' Den: Book of Dread Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-16
- Satisfying and fun turn-based gameplay
- Custom portraits enhance hero uniqueness
- Plentiful and rewarding loot system
- Stark visually barebones presentation
- Difficulty scaling and balance problems
- Repetitive procedural dungeons limit variety
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
- 293
- Positive
- 27192.5%
- Negative
- 227.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 23,907
- Estimated revenue
- $119,296
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 32.56%
- Estimated copies lost
- 245
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,223
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 32.6% Avg playtime 0.7h | 65.1% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 54.3% Avg playtime 12.1h | 10388% Avg playtime 44.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,709.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
117 total
Organic purchasers10186.3%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations1613.7%
Voted up: 81%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
117 total
First impression0-2h1916.2%
Voted up: 84%
Mid game2-10h4639.3%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h2117.9%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+3126.5%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 93.2%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 293 total.