The Use of Life — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$330Kest

grossAtFullPrice $361K · promo blend

Net to developer

$212Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

18,050▼ 100.0%

133 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$57K17% of LTD

4K units · $14.39 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 715 reviews collected over 6 months; balanced multi-language audience; Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier D · ▼ 0 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

50%

→ 0

Score history · 30d retention

4 (28d ago)0 (now)

02 Biggest games linking to you

Steam puts The Use of Life in their “More Like This” · 2 inbound · top 2 by audience

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卡恩特村0 reviews · 0% pos · Raymond1studio · 2026

03 The Use of Life’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#1Baldur's Gate 3

96%741K

#2Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

87%31K

#3Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

0%0

#7Persona5: The Phantom X

50%13K

#8LumenTale: Memories of Trey

73%840

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

90.4%cohort 71%

653 pos · 69 neg

Total reviews

722tracked

722 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

722 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

90.2%flat

9.8% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

14 languages · top 12 shown

JAJapanese

29.2%21183%

ZHSimplified Chinese

27.0%19590%

ENEnglish

25.9%18798%

TWTraditional Chinese

14.0%10193%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.2%9100%

KOKorean

1.0%786%

ESSpanish

0.6%4100%

FRFrench

0.3%250%

CZCzech

0.1%1100%

ESLatin American Spanish

0.1%1100%

DAdanish

0.1%1100%

DEGerman

0.1%10%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 11

73%positive

1.5% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 384

88%positive

53.2% of reviews

10-100h 325

94%positive

45.0% of reviews

100h+ 2

100%positive

0.3% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 653Negative 69

1098255270

22·0522·1223·0724·0224·0925·0425·1126·05

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

722 reviews

Free product

9/ 722

1.2% of total100% positive

Early access

412/ 722

57.1% of total89% positive

Key activation

62/ 722

8.6% of total95% positive

Steam Deck

12/ 722

1.7% of total92% positive

Steam purchase

651/ 722

90.2% of total90% positive

Recommended

653/ 722

90.4% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

69/ 722

9.6% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

722/ 722

100.0% of total90% positive