Dustborn Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-30
- Excellent voice acting and story
- Enjoyable gameplay and unique art
- Choices affect narrative development
- Combat is clunky and unsatisfying
- Ending is rushed and confusing
- Game is very buggy
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 762
- Positive
- 50265.9%
- Negative
- 26034.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 53,822
- Estimated revenue
- $1,614,122
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 7319.36%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,156
- Estimated revenue lost
- $154,628
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 7419.6% Avg playtime 0.8h | 236.1% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 11330% Avg playtime 13.5h | 16744.3% Avg playtime 22.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 33.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 739 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
377 total
Organic purchasers27773.5%
Voted up: 55%
Key activations10026.5%
Voted up: 39%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
377 total
First impression0-2h10828.6%
Voted up: 24%
Mid game2-10h7118.8%
Voted up: 37%
Late game10-20h11831.3%
Voted up: 62%
Endgame20h+8021.2%
Voted up: 81%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
84.6%
Global baseline 50.4%
26 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 762 total.