Moonlighter Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-17
- Beautiful pixel art praised
- Core gameplay is fun
- Controls are poor across platforms
- Gameplay becomes repetitive quickly
- Combat feels clunky and stiff
- Poor optimization on PC
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 23,541
- Positive
- 19,17581.5%
- Negative
- 4,36618.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,453,148
- Estimated revenue
- $29,048,429
- Game price
- $20
- Review â sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 39611.53%
- Estimated copies lost
- 24,444
- Estimated revenue lost
- $488,636
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| †2h playtime | 39711.6% Avg playtime 0.6h | 1785.2% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 44112.8% Avg playtime 14.1h | 2,42070.4% Avg playtime 24.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 55.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 42.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,001.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,436 total
Organic purchasers1,56145.4%
Voted up: 79%
Key activations1,87554.6%
Voted up: 73%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,436 total
First impression0-2h65519.1%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h1,22435.6%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h81623.7%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+74121.6%
Voted up: 90%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
73.9%
Global baseline 75.6%
134 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 23,541 total.