VVVVVV Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-19
- Excellent platforming gameplay
- Outstanding soundtrack
- Cute retro visuals
- Clever level design
- Slippery controls frustrating
- Unfair difficulty from controls
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 10,508
- Positive
- 10,10896.2%
- Negative
- 4003.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 745,250
- Estimated revenue
- $3,718,798
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 111.97%
- Estimated copies lost
- 780
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,892
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 112% Avg playtime 1.1h | 6311.3% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 173% Avg playtime 6.1h | 46783.7% Avg playtime 16h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 7.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,754.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
558 total
Organic purchasers41273.8%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations14626.2%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
554 total
First impression0-2h10017.9%
Voted up: 87%
Mid game2-10h35964.3%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h529.32%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+437.71%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
90.3%
Global baseline 95.0%
31 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 10,508 total.