Hunt: Showdown 1896 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-26
- Excellent sound design
- Wide variety of weapons
- Great gun handling feel
- Matchmaking skill imbalance
- Ineffective anti-cheat system
- Widespread cheating problem
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 275,945
- Positive
- 203,38373.7%
- Negative
- 72,56226.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 12,645,634
- Estimated revenue
- $379,242,564
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3841.45%
- Estimated copies lost
- 17,597
- Estimated revenue lost
- $527,734
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3851.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1640.6% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 6,92726.2% Avg playtime 538.5h | 18,91871.7% Avg playtime 511.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 8.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 64 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 440.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,075.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
26,394 total
Organic purchasers17,91167.9%
Voted up: 74%
Key activations8,48332.1%
Voted up: 69%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
26,394 total
First impression0-2h7512.85%
Voted up: 39%
Mid game2-10h3,20812.2%
Voted up: 66%
Late game10-20h1,9867.52%
Voted up: 74%
Endgame20h+20,44977.5%
Voted up: 74%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
57.6%
Global baseline 72.3%
33 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 275,945 total.