The Use of Life — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$307Kest

grossAtFullPrice $242K · promo blend

Net to developer

$197Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

17,318▼ 84.3%

133 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$40K13% of LTD

4K units · $10.07 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 686 reviews collected over 5 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 · ▲ 3 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

65%

→ 4

Score history · 30d retention

0 (24d ago)4 (now)

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03 The Use of Life’s “More like this”

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

90.3%cohort 71%

635 pos · 68 neg

Total reviews

703tracked

703 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

703 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

89.9%flat

10.1% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

13 languages · top 12 shown

JAJapanese

29.0%20483%

ZHSimplified Chinese

27.2%19190%

ENEnglish

25.9%18298%

TWTraditional Chinese

14.1%9993%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.3%9100%

KOKorean

1.0%786%

ESSpanish

0.6%4100%

FRFrench

0.3%250%

CZCzech

0.1%1100%

ESLatin American Spanish

0.1%1100%

DEGerman

0.1%10%

THThai

0.1%1100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 11

73%positive

1.6% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 380

88%positive

54.1% of reviews

10-100h 310

93%positive

44.1% of reviews

100h+ 2

100%positive

0.3% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 635Negative 68

1098255270

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

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

703 reviews

Free product

9/ 703

1.3% of total100% positive

Early access

412/ 703

58.6% of total89% positive

Key activation

62/ 703

8.8% of total95% positive

Steam Deck

10/ 703

1.4% of total90% positive

Steam purchase

632/ 703

89.9% of total90% positive

Recommended

635/ 703

90.3% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

68/ 703

9.7% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

703/ 703

100.0% of total90% positive