The Outer Worlds Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-24
- Choice-driven narrative and RPG gameplay.
- Excellent writing, dialogue, and humor.
- Enjoyable combat and character progression systems.
- High-quality graphics, sound, and soundtrack.
- Repetitive and boring combat and dialogue.
- Poor optimization, performance, and game mechanics.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 12-15GB VRAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 28,206
- Positive
- 23,25282.4%
- Negative
- 4,95417.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,129,433
- Estimated revenue
- $63,861,696
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 662.65%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,983
- Estimated revenue lost
- $149,440
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 662.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 180.7% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 60824.4% Avg playtime 23.9h | 1,79772.2% Avg playtime 45.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 84.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,038.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,489 total
Organic purchasers2,19888.3%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations29111.7%
Voted up: 70%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,489 total
First impression0-2h1084.34%
Voted up: 35%
Mid game2-10h54621.9%
Voted up: 64%
Late game10-20h54421.9%
Voted up: 69%
Endgame20h+1,29151.9%
Voted up: 81%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
64.0%
Global baseline 72.9%
50 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 28,206 total.