HELLDIVERS™ 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-04-30
- Enjoyable and fun gameplay experience.
- Variety in enemies and missions.
- Impressive graphics and animations.
- Unique stratagem and weapon customization.
- Game plagued by bugs and issues.
- Developers ignoring community feedback.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,132,108
- Positive
- 862,52176.2%
- Negative
- 269,58723.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 51,695,092
- Estimated revenue
- $2,067,286,729
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 9860.64%
- Estimated copies lost
- 45,023
- Estimated revenue lost
- $1,800,470
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 9930.6% Avg playtime 1h | 3330.2% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 39,95125.8% Avg playtime 279.3h | 113,46073.3% Avg playtime 214.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 190.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 377.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 11,215.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 810.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
154,737 total
Organic purchasers103,47166.9%
Voted up: 75%
Key activations51,26633.1%
Voted up: 70%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
154,737 total
First impression0-2h2,1111.36%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h16,72110.8%
Voted up: 83%
Late game10-20h14,8259.58%
Voted up: 83%
Endgame20h+121,08078.2%
Voted up: 72%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
75.9%
Global baseline 73.5%
1,072 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,132,108 total.