Cypher Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-14
- Teaches various ciphers effectively
- Excellent beginner's guide included
- Challenging and engaging puzzles
- Insufficient hint system available
- Puzzles require external knowledge
- High difficulty may deter players
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 948
- Positive
- 85089.7%
- Negative
- 9810.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 74,994
- Estimated revenue
- $374,220
- Game price
- $5
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 147.73%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,108
- Estimated revenue lost
- $5,529
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 147.7% Avg playtime 1.1h | 3921.5% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2011% Avg playtime 10h | 10859.7% Avg playtime 14.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 5.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,096.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
181 total
Organic purchasers17898.3%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations31.66%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
181 total
First impression0-2h6234.3%
Voted up: 77%
Mid game2-10h8144.8%
Voted up: 81%
Late game10-20h1910.5%
Voted up: 84%
Endgame20h+1910.5%
Voted up: 89%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 81.2%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 948 total.