Populous™: The Beginning — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$13Kest

grossAtFullPrice $13K · promo blend

Net to developer

$8Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

12,791▼ 100.0%

156 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$3K26% of LTD

5K units · $0.71 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 408 reviews collected over 2.2 years; balanced multi-language audience; non-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%

82%

→ 2

Score history · 30d retention

2 (14d ago)2 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Populous™: The Beginning · 1 inbound · top 1 shown

qualityScore 2

Populous™52 reviews · 82% pos · Bullfrog Productions · 2024

+1.4

03 Populous™: The Beginning’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

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89%6.7K

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90%91K

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70%100K

#6SMITE 2

55%21K

#7Sid Meier's Civilization VII

48%41K

#8Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

87.9%cohort 71%

370 pos · 51 neg

Total reviews

421tracked

421 crawled

Velocity · 30d

0 / dayest

8 this month

Steam-purchase rate

95.7%flat

4.3% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

21 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

53.2%22487%

TWTraditional Chinese

8.1%3488%

ZHSimplified Chinese

7.8%3385%

ESSpanish

6.2%2685%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

5.5%2391%

DEGerman

3.8%1694%

RURussian

3.3%14100%

JAJapanese

2.9%1275%

PLPolish

2.4%1090%

ESLatin American Spanish

1.9%8100%

CZCzech

1.0%4100%

DAdanish

0.7%3100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 164

79%positive

39.0% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 152

91%positive

36.1% of reviews

10-100h 101

96%positive

24.0% of reviews

100h+ 4

100%positive

1.0% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 370Negative 51

14310772360

24·0324·0724·1125·0325·0725·1126·0326·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

421 reviews

Free product

4/ 421

1.0% of total75% positive

Early access

0/ 421

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

14/ 421

3.3% of total79% positive

Steam Deck

6/ 421

1.4% of total67% positive

Steam purchase

403/ 421

95.7% of total88% positive

Recommended

370/ 421

87.9% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

51/ 421

12.1% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

421/ 421

100.0% of total88% positive