Steel Rats™ Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-25
- Impressive graphics and visuals
- Great sound and music
- High replayability with characters
- Controls are overly complex
- Frequent early crashes
- Keyboard controls are unusable
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 1,402
- Positive
- 79356.6%
- Negative
- 60943.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 103,564
- Estimated revenue
- $1,034,604
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 4327.22%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,176
- Estimated revenue lost
- $31,728
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 4327.2% Avg playtime 0.7h | 2213.9% Avg playtime 0.7h |
| > 2h playtime | 5031.6% Avg playtime 8.9h | 4327.2% Avg playtime 17.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 4.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,807.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
158 total
Organic purchasers3723.4%
Voted up: 49%
Key activations12176.6%
Voted up: 39%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
158 total
First impression0-2h7748.7%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h5736.1%
Voted up: 44%
Late game10-20h1710.8%
Voted up: 35%
Endgame20h+74.43%
Voted up: 86%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
20.0%
Global baseline 41.1%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 1,402 total.