Half-Life: Alyx Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-04-21
- Highly immersive experience with stunning graphics.
- Best VR game with excellent soundtrack.
- Engaging puzzles and incredible gameplay and story.
- VR-specific requirements and high system needs.
- Short game length and frequent crashes reported.
- Bugs causing players to get stuck and teleportation issues.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 103,075
- Positive
- 101,28898.3%
- Negative
- 1,7871.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 7,214,223
- Estimated revenue
- $432,781,238
- Game price
- $60
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 390.53%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,730
- Estimated revenue lost
- $163,773
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 390.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1852.5% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 1462% Avg playtime 16h | 6,99095% Avg playtime 26.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 3.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 18.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 145.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,219.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
7,360 total
Organic purchasers6,89293.6%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations4686.36%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
7,360 total
First impression0-2h4275.80%
Voted up: 88%
Mid game2-10h2,46033.4%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h2,76637.6%
Voted up: 99%
Endgame20h+1,70723.2%
Voted up: 99%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
85.7%
Global baseline 97.5%
7 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 103,075 total.