Protolife Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-01
- Unique modular tower defense concept
- Great pixel art and soundtrack
- New Game+ and Experiment mode
- High difficulty and spikes
- No mouse control support
- Misleading trailer and false advertising
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
- 470
- Positive
- 40586.2%
- Negative
- 6513.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 39,662
- Estimated revenue
- $475,547
- Game price
- $12
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 98.49%
- Estimated copies lost
- 759
- Estimated revenue lost
- $9,100
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 98.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 21.9% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 87.5% Avg playtime 88.4h | 8782.1% Avg playtime 28.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,993.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
106 total
Organic purchasers10094.3%
Voted up: 83%
Key activations65.66%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
106 total
First impression0-2h1312.3%
Voted up: 31%
Mid game2-10h5148.1%
Voted up: 86%
Late game10-20h2220.8%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+2018.9%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 84.0%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 470 total.