Striving for Light — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$47Kest

grossAtFullPrice $47K · promo blend

Net to developer

$30Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

3,741▼ 66.7%

66 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$18K38% of LTD

2K units · $9.06 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 163 reviews collected over 9 months; English-dominant audience; Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

1,97452.8%

Tail · units

1,76747.2%

Launch · gross

$18K

$18K38.0%

Tail · gross

$29K

$29K62.0%

Net to dev

$30K

$30K64.4%

01 Like Score

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

Tier D · ▲ 9 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

64%

→ 21

Score history · 30d retention

8 (14d ago)21 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Striving for Light · 18 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 21

Lucky Tower Ultimate1.8K reviews · 93% pos · Studio Seufz · 2026

+3.0

Tallowmere763 reviews · 90% pos · Chris McFarland · 2015

+2.6

Space Gladiators: The Hole153 reviews · 87% pos · Blobfish · 2020

+1.9

Entity Researchers: Prologue76 reviews · 84% pos · Newbuild-C · 2022

+1.6

Spectro49 reviews · 81% pos · Borrowed Light VR · 2020

+1.4

Let's Journey29 reviews · 86% pos · Garden of Dreams · 2020

+1.3

Living the Nightmare15 reviews · 93% pos · Reanimate Games · 2020

+1.1

Bee Hero: Bug Blaster15 reviews · 86% pos · Kolossus Games · 2025

+1.0

Wetory17 reviews · 82% pos · PepperStones · 2023

+1.0

Magical Monsters3 reviews · 100% pos · Crydan Studio · 2024

+0.6

+ 8 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+1.1

03 Striving for Light’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#3Torchlight: Infinite

#7Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition

87%4.5K

#8Minecraft Dungeons II

0%0

Review score

6/ 9

Mostly Positive

% positive

79.0%cohort 71%

158 pos · 42 neg

Total reviews

200tracked

200 crawled

Velocity · 30d

0 / dayest

1 this month

Steam-purchase rate

57.0%flat

43.0% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

17 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

60.5%12183%

DEGerman

8.0%1675%

RURussian

6.0%1250%

ZHSimplified Chinese

5.5%1155%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

2.5%5100%

KOKorean

2.5%540%

ESSpanish

2.5%5100%

PLPolish

2.0%475%

FRFrench

2.0%475%

JAJapanese

2.0%475%

TWTraditional Chinese

1.5%3100%

ITItalian

1.0%2100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 20

60%positive

10.0% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 109

83%positive

54.5% of reviews

10-100h 65

77%positive

32.5% of reviews

100h+ 6

100%positive

3.0% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 158Negative 42

876544220

22·0823·0223·0724·0224·1225·0725·1226·05

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

200 reviews

Free product

38/ 200

19.0% of total92% positive

Early access

85/ 200

42.5% of total84% positive

Key activation

48/ 200

24.0% of total92% positive

Steam Deck

5/ 200

2.5% of total80% positive

Steam purchase

114/ 200

57.0% of total79% positive

Recommended

158/ 200

79.0% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

42/ 200

21.0% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

200/ 200

100.0% of total79% positive

163 reviews · 74% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.