Baba Is You
Last updated: 2025-12-20
- Exceptional puzzle design with high variety
- Challenging yet fair difficulty progression
- Strong satisfaction and achievement feelings
- Emotional exhaustion from intense gameplay
- Inconsistent progression frustrates players
- Niche appeal limits broader accessibility
Emotions
Frustration23%Satisfaction17%Admiration11%Excitement7%Enjoyment6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 22,828
- Positive
- 22,31897.8%
- Negative
- 5102.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,705,705
- Estimated revenue
- $25,568,518
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 60.28%
- Estimated copies lost
- 448
- Estimated revenue lost
- $6,716
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 60.3% Avg playtime 1.1h | 964.5% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 562.6% Avg playtime 24h | 1,96292.5% Avg playtime 38h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 5.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 46.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,473.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,120 total
Organic purchasers1,81185.4%
Voted up: 97%
Key activations30914.6%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,120 total
First impression0-2h1959.20%
Voted up: 96%
Mid game2-10h86240.7%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h36817.4%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+69532.8%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
98.3%
Global baseline 97.1%
59 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 22,828 total.