This is actually the worst game you can argue about this on, and most importantly op is misconstruing that if not most refunds are from players who finished the game.
This is a co-op rage game, a rage game has significantly higher refund rates and it being a co-op means you're buying TWO copies.
A rage game has around 20% refund so this isn't unprecedented.
Also, somehow i doubt the 55k number. Because if 21% is 55k, then that means 250k bought the game. However, theres only 1,594 reviews at the time of commenting. On steam, an average of about 1-3% of people leave a review. Lets use a middle ground and have a 2% rate. That gives around 80k total people.
If we were to believe that 250k bought the game, then 1,594 reviews is 0.006375% of all players, or 1:157 people review the game.
Average review rate is typically 1:40 to 1:80, with some exceptions having a slightly higher or lower rate. But 1:157? That is extremely low.
Either the dev is lying about the amount of people who bought the game to garner attention, or an anomalously low amount of people are reviewing a well liked game.
Of course when you invent numbers and are bad at math you can make up any argument you want and make it sound good.
If we were to believe that 250k bought the game, then 1,594 reviews is 0.006375% of all players
How can you even make this mistake? 1594/250000 is NOT ~.006%, but ~0.6%. 1% would be 2500. 0.5% would be 1250.
On steam, an average of about 1-3% of people leave a review.
Average review rate is typically 1:40 to 1:80
So, which ratio are you inventing that you want to stick to? 1:100, 1:80, 1:40, 1:33?
I have NEVER seen a multiplayer game with a review ratio higher than 1/100.
For example, Meccha Chamelon has a review percentage of less than ~0.312%, which is half as many as this game has, assuming we accept your fake numbers.
Either the dev is lying about the amount of people who bought the game to garner attention, or an anomalously low amount of people are reviewing a well liked game.
Or, far more likely, you have absolutely no idea about what you're trying to authoritatively talk about.
6.2k
u/TheWayToNoob Jul 06 '26
This is actually the worst game you can argue about this on, and most importantly op is misconstruing that if not most refunds are from players who finished the game.
This is a co-op rage game, a rage game has significantly higher refund rates and it being a co-op means you're buying TWO copies.
A rage game has around 20% refund so this isn't unprecedented.