HELLDIVERS™ 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-12
- Fun core gameplay and co-op
- Great variety of weapons and missions
- Unique atmosphere and graphics
- Poor stability and frequent crashes
- Grindy gameplay and poor balance
- Negatively impacted by developer decisions
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,145,639
- Positive
- 860,04875.1%
- Negative
- 285,59124.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 52,528,988
- Estimated revenue
- $2,100,634,230
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5360.69%
- Estimated copies lost
- 24,576
- Estimated revenue lost
- $982,794
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5380.7% Avg playtime 1h | 1510.2% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 31,85741.3% Avg playtime 334.9h | 44,63857.8% Avg playtime 248.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 211 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 126.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 13,029.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 365.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
77,184 total
Organic purchasers52,27867.7%
Voted up: 58%
Key activations24,90632.3%
Voted up: 57%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
77,184 total
First impression0-2h9911.28%
Voted up: 31%
Mid game2-10h5,4637.08%
Voted up: 80%
Late game10-20h5,1776.71%
Voted up: 80%
Endgame20h+65,55384.9%
Voted up: 55%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
58.7%
Global baseline 58.0%
681 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,145,639 total.