Return of the Obra Dinn Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-27
- Excellent detective game
- Brilliant puzzle design
- Intriguing and engaging story
- Motion sickness from 3D
- Very high difficulty
- Art style hinders identification
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 16GB+ VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 34,447
- Positive
- 33,30496.7%
- Negative
- 1,1433.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,525,468
- Estimated revenue
- $50,484,105
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 541.00%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,959
- Estimated revenue lost
- $79,140
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 541% Avg playtime 0.9h | 741.4% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1793.3% Avg playtime 8.7h | 5,07294.3% Avg playtime 13.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 19.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 94.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,808.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
5,379 total
Organic purchasers4,96192.2%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations4187.77%
Voted up: 97%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
5,379 total
First impression0-2h1472.73%
Voted up: 62%
Mid game2-10h2,20841.0%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h2,58248.0%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+4428.22%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.1%
Global baseline 95.7%
159 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 34,447 total.