The Cycle: Frontier
Last updated: 2025-12-27
- Exceptional overall enjoyment and fun
- Immersive sound design enhances atmosphere
- Best-in-class extraction shooter mechanics
- Game shutdown due to severe mismanagement
- Rampant cheating ruined fair gameplay
- Lack of content and meaningful innovation
Emotions
Nostalgia21%Frustration18%Disappointment12%Sadness12%Hope11%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 45,408
- Positive
- 29,03463.9%
- Negative
- 16,37436.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,027,200
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 263.41%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,733
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 263.4% Avg playtime 0.7h | 719.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 8010.5% Avg playtime 202.1h | 58576.8% Avg playtime 178.9h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 41.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,297.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
762 total
Organic purchasers30.39%
Voted up: 100%
Key activations75999.6%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
762 total
First impression0-2h10413.6%
Voted up: 74%
Mid game2-10h11715.4%
Voted up: 77%
Late game10-20h678.79%
Voted up: 90%
Endgame20h+47462.2%
Voted up: 91%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
N/A
Global baseline 86.1%
0 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 45,408 total.