Alien Swarm Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-21
- Fun with friends cooperative gameplay
- Variety of character and weapon classes
- Emphasis on teamwork and tactical gameplay
- Free to play with beautiful graphics
- Short campaign with multiplayer requirement
- Low player base and technical issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 21,533
- Positive
- 20,42694.9%
- Negative
- 1,1075.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,426,617
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 274.66%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,789
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 274.7% Avg playtime 0.6h | 17129.5% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 162.8% Avg playtime 28.8h | 36563% Avg playtime 180.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 8.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,411.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
579 total
Organic purchasers579100.0%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations00.00%
Voted up: 0%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
578 total
First impression0-2h22338.5%
Voted up: 87%
Mid game2-10h20936.1%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h559.50%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+9115.7%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 92.6%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 21,533 total.