CODE VEIN Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-15
- Excellent character creation system
- Engaging souls-like gameplay
- Appealing art style and music
- Confusing maze-like map design
- Clunky and floaty combat
- Low enemy variety and reskins
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 62,343
- Positive
- 51,78283.1%
- Negative
- 10,56116.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 4,166,377
- Estimated revenue
- $249,940,956
- Game price
- $60
- Review â sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1743.56%
- Estimated copies lost
- 11,628
- Estimated revenue lost
- $697,564
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| †2h playtime | 1783.6% Avg playtime 1h | 611.2% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,29426.5% Avg playtime 24.6h | 3,35468.6% Avg playtime 52.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 12.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 137 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,514.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
4,887 total
Organic purchasers3,53372.3%
Voted up: 72%
Key activations1,35427.7%
Voted up: 64%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
4,887 total
First impression0-2h3056.24%
Voted up: 34%
Mid game2-10h1,16023.7%
Voted up: 61%
Late game10-20h81216.6%
Voted up: 64%
Endgame20h+2,61053.4%
Voted up: 80%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.3%
Global baseline 69.9%
80 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 62,343 total.