Insurgency: Sandstorm Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-13
- Outstanding gunplay and tactical, rewarding gameplay
- High level of realism and immersive experience
- Excellent co-op mode and high-quality sound design
- Awful controls and mechanics, AI lacks intelligence
- Declining player base and lack of new content
- Frequent connectivity and high ping issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 131,845
- Positive
- 111,91084.9%
- Negative
- 19,93515.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 9,713,239
- Estimated revenue
- $291,300,038
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1992.77%
- Estimated copies lost
- 14,661
- Estimated revenue lost
- $439,683
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1992.8% Avg playtime 0.9h | 921.3% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,13015.7% Avg playtime 176.8h | 5,75680.2% Avg playtime 143.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 16.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 134.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,708.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
7,177 total
Organic purchasers6,00783.7%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations1,17016.3%
Voted up: 81%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
7,177 total
First impression0-2h3995.56%
Voted up: 45%
Mid game2-10h1,74224.3%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h1,13415.8%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+3,90254.4%
Voted up: 83%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
89.3%
Global baseline 81.5%
28 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 131,845 total.