Barotrauma Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-06
- Mods enhance replayability greatly
- Great fun with friends
- Core gameplay is excellent
- Solo play is too hard
- Steep learning curve
- Optimization is poor
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 88,751
- Positive
- 83,44094.0%
- Negative
- 5,3116.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 5,781,002
- Estimated revenue
- $202,277,260
- Game price
- $35
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 860.67%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,602
- Estimated revenue lost
- $196,014
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 860.7% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1160.9% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 6415% Avg playtime 126.4h | 12,00193.4% Avg playtime 172.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 36.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 225.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,618.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
12,844 total
Organic purchasers8,53666.5%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations4,30833.5%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
12,844 total
First impression0-2h3302.57%
Voted up: 65%
Mid game2-10h2,16416.8%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h1,49211.6%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+8,85869.0%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
85.2%
Global baseline 94.3%
27 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 88,751 total.