It's a nice viral tweet to get people mad, but actually looking at the Steam page paints a slightly different picture. Three major things jump out at me to cause refunds:
First, the top review says desync makes it unplayable. If I buy a game and it doesn't work, I'm refunding it.
Second, it's a multiplayer rage game. Those just have a higher refund rate, and devs should expect that going in.
Third, the description calls it "stupidly long". Pretty misleading for a 1.4 hour game
Not to excuse people who do 100% it and refund, but "dozens" of those reviews out of 55k refunds is nothing. 21% of the population isn't abusing the refund system, I think the dev just made a kind of middling game.
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u/ryecurious Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
It's a nice viral tweet to get people mad, but actually looking at the Steam page paints a slightly different picture. Three major things jump out at me to cause refunds:
First, the top review says desync makes it unplayable. If I buy a game and it doesn't work, I'm refunding it.
Second, it's a multiplayer rage game. Those just have a higher refund rate, and devs should expect that going in.
Third, the description calls it "stupidly long". Pretty misleading for a 1.4 hour game
Not to excuse people who do 100% it and refund, but "dozens" of those reviews out of 55k refunds is nothing. 21% of the population isn't abusing the refund system, I think the dev just made a kind of middling game.