Per Aspera Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-10
- Fun and enjoyable gameplay
- Captivating and engaging story
- Great Mars terraforming simulation
- Gameplay boring and repetitive
- Frequent crashes and instability
- Manual road upgrades tedious
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,774
- Positive
- 4,38475.9%
- Negative
- 1,39024.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 408,236
- Estimated revenue
- $12,242,998
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 102.89%
- Estimated copies lost
- 707
- Estimated revenue lost
- $21,203
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 102.9% Avg playtime 1.1h | 10.3% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 10229.5% Avg playtime 37.5h | 23367.3% Avg playtime 51.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 10.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,105.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
346 total
Organic purchasers25674.0%
Voted up: 68%
Key activations9026.0%
Voted up: 66%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
346 total
First impression0-2h185.20%
Voted up: 33%
Mid game2-10h6619.1%
Voted up: 55%
Late game10-20h8524.6%
Voted up: 64%
Endgame20h+17751.2%
Voted up: 78%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 67.6%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,774 total.