- Genre-defining masterpiece with tight, responsive controls and gameplay.
- Visuals and music enhance rewarding difficulty curve.
- Perfect SHMUP introduction with diverse, creative stage designs.
- Final-stage failure deletes save, causing frustration.
- Brutal difficulty and final boss overwhelm beginners.
- Lacks Steam Cloud saves (now fixed) and leaderboards.
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
- 2,149
- Positive
- 2,06396.0%
- Negative
- 864.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 165,140
- Estimated revenue
- $1,980,029
- Game price
- $12
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 10.22%
- Estimated copies lost
- 77
- Estimated revenue lost
- $923
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 10.2% Avg playtime 1.1h | 132.8% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 204.4% Avg playtime 12h | 42492.6% Avg playtime 28.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 10.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,768.8 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
458 total
Organic purchasers41891.3%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations408.73%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
458 total
First impression0-2h265.68%
Voted up: 92%
Mid game2-10h17538.2%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h15032.8%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+10723.4%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
96.0%
Global baseline 95.4%
25 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 2,149 total.