Celeste Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-23
- Excellent gameplay and feel
- Beautiful pixel art and visuals
- Great music and soundtrack
- Awful keyboard controls
- Frustrating difficulty and controls
- Severe performance issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 142,577
- Positive
- 138,88997.4%
- Negative
- 3,6882.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 10,304,795
- Estimated revenue
- $205,992,852
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1530.65%
- Estimated copies lost
- 11,058
- Estimated revenue lost
- $221,049
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1540.7% Avg playtime 0.7h | 3741.6% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 5872.5% Avg playtime 51h | 22,34895.2% Avg playtime 67.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 7.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 62.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 442.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,066.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
23,463 total
Organic purchasers21,08589.9%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations2,37810.1%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
23,463 total
First impression0-2h9113.88%
Voted up: 80%
Mid game2-10h6,73428.7%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h5,01521.4%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+10,80346.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.3%
Global baseline 96.8%
506 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 142,577 total.