SpaceChem Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-30
- Excellent puzzle game overall
- Programming disguised as chemistry
- Strong sense of achievement
- Varied and interesting puzzles
- Extremely high difficulty
- Tedious and clunky UI
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
- 5,095
- Positive
- 4,69692.2%
- Negative
- 3997.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 346,262
- Estimated revenue
- $3,459,157
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 52.37%
- Estimated copies lost
- 340
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,397
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 52.4% Avg playtime 1.1h | 178.1% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 83.8% Avg playtime 14.2h | 18185.8% Avg playtime 102.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.4 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,448.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
211 total
Organic purchasers13764.9%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations7435.1%
Voted up: 93%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
211 total
First impression0-2h2411.4%
Voted up: 79%
Mid game2-10h5626.5%
Voted up: 91%
Late game10-20h3617.1%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+9545.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 93.8%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,095 total.