Half-Life
Last updated: 2025-12-18
- Timeless and engaging challenging gameplay quality
- Innovative immersive storytelling with rich atmosphere
- Genre-defining industry impact and level design
- Endgame difficulty and design issues frustrate players
- Poor save systems and clunky unintuitive movement
- Outdated graphics with frequent technical bugs
Emotions
Frustration18%Admiration17%Nostalgia12%Disappointment6%Amusement6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 154,727
- Positive
- 149,35096.5%
- Negative
- 5,3773.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 10,715,153
- Estimated revenue
- $107,044,378
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1180.70%
- Estimated copies lost
- 8,172
- Estimated revenue lost
- $81,638
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1180.7% Avg playtime 0.8h | 1,0626.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 6413.8% Avg playtime 24.2h | 15,11889.2% Avg playtime 31.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 3.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 64.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 256.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,451.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
16,939 total
Organic purchasers11,82969.8%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations5,11030.2%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
16,939 total
First impression0-2h1,5989.43%
Voted up: 92%
Mid game2-10h6,11736.1%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h5,51532.6%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+3,70921.9%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
91.2%
Global baseline 95.5%
194 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 154,727 total.