Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Last updated: 2025-12-23
- Nostalgic Castlevania-inspired design elements
- Addictive and rewarding gameplay loop
- High replayability with content variety
- Clunky and unresponsive control scheme
- Lack of clear progression guidance
- Repetitive and linear level design
Emotions
Frustration21%Satisfaction13%Disappointment13%Nostalgia8%Enjoyment7%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 40,462
- Positive
- 37,85493.6%
- Negative
- 2,6086.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,660,973
- Estimated revenue
- $106,412,310
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 612.89%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,012
- Estimated revenue lost
- $160,440
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 622.9% Avg playtime 1.1h | 241.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 1999.4% Avg playtime 21.4h | 1,82586.5% Avg playtime 41.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 46.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,380.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,110 total
Organic purchasers1,44668.5%
Voted up: 89%
Key activations66431.5%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,110 total
First impression0-2h1195.64%
Voted up: 44%
Mid game2-10h39918.9%
Voted up: 81%
Late game10-20h46221.9%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+1,13053.6%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
79.0%
Global baseline 87.6%
100 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 40,462 total.