Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-14
- Charming and cute characters
- Extensive post-game content
- Fun and engaging gameplay
- Excellent genre mix
- Dungeon crawling too repetitive
- Gameplay becomes monotonous quickly
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
- 7,465
- Positive
- 7,17096.0%
- Negative
- 2954.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 546,602
- Estimated revenue
- $10,926,574
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 30.90%
- Estimated copies lost
- 220
- Estimated revenue lost
- $4,398
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 30.9% Avg playtime 1h | 164.8% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 164.8% Avg playtime 26.5h | 29889.5% Avg playtime 57.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 5.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,076.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
333 total
Organic purchasers30691.9%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations278.11%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
333 total
First impression0-2h257.51%
Voted up: 88%
Mid game2-10h9027.0%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h9127.3%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+12738.1%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 94.3%
9 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 7,465 total.