Celeste
Last updated: 2025-12-31
- Challenging yet fair difficulty curve
- Emotionally resonant storytelling experience
- Masterful level and puzzle design
- Extreme difficulty spikes frustrate players
- Frustrating mechanics design choices
- Technical instability and crashes reported
Emotions
Frustration15%Satisfaction10%Admiration8%Joy7%Pride5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 133,525
- Positive
- 130,08697.4%
- Negative
- 3,4392.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 9,609,365
- Estimated revenue
- $192,091,206
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1690.73%
- Estimated copies lost
- 12,162
- Estimated revenue lost
- $243,118
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1700.7% Avg playtime 0.8h | 3771.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 5892.6% Avg playtime 40h | 21,89295.1% Avg playtime 70.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 72.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 367.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,892.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
23,028 total
Organic purchasers20,50489.0%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations2,52411.0%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
23,028 total
First impression0-2h8813.83%
Voted up: 78%
Mid game2-10h6,35527.6%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h4,93321.4%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+10,85947.2%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.2%
Global baseline 96.7%
502 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 133,525 total.