The Shell Part II: Purgatorio — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$818Kest

grossAtFullPrice $818K · promo blend

Net to developer

$527Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

32,729▼ 100.0%

341 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$184K22% of LTD

10K units · $17.99 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 522 reviews collected over 2.0 years; Chinese-heavy audience; non-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

10K

10,22031.2%

Tail · units

23K

22,50968.8%

Launch · gross

$184K

$184K22.5%

Tail · gross

$634K

$634K77.5%

Net to dev

$527K

$527K64.4%

01 Like Score

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

Tier C · ▼ 10 7d

DC ●BAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

71%

→ 42

Score history · 30d retention

21 (14d ago)42 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank The Shell Part II: Purgatorio · 35 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 42

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+3.4

AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative3.5K reviews · 86% pos · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2022

+3.0

The Shell Part III: Paradiso538 reviews · 97% pos · Innocent Grey · 2025

+2.6

Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool & Snow255 reviews · 99% pos · XEECEE · 2024

+2.4

1997223 reviews · 92% pos · Hit'n'Run Digital Studio · 2023

+2.2

Night Cascades137 reviews · 94% pos · Hanako Games · 2022

+2.0

Reality's Reverse Side44 reviews · 86% pos · CupcakeTime Team · 2021

+1.4

Red Spider2: Exiled30 reviews · 90% pos · studio wasp · 2016

+1.3

Red Spider:Vengeance41 reviews · 82% pos · studio wasp · 2016

+1.3

LONGEYED PROJ80 reviews · 61% pos · wadishTheCreator · 2022

+1.2

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+7.4

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Review score

9/ 9

Overwhelmingly Positive

% positive

94.5%cohort 71%

567 pos · 33 neg

Total reviews

600tracked

600 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

19 this month

Steam-purchase rate

82.3%flat

17.7% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

13 languages · top 12 shown

ZHSimplified Chinese

75.0%45094%

ENEnglish

15.2%9197%

TWTraditional Chinese

6.2%3797%

RURussian

1.5%989%

ESLatin American Spanish

0.3%2100%

ESSpanish

0.3%2100%

UKUkrainian

0.3%2100%

ITItalian

0.3%2100%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

0.2%1100%

THThai

0.2%1100%

FRFrench

0.2%1100%

KOKorean

0.2%1100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 50

98%positive

8.3% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 81

89%positive

13.5% of reviews

10-100h 454

95%positive

75.7% of reviews

100h+ 15

100%positive

2.5% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 567Negative 33

1148657290

24·0424·0824·1225·0425·0825·1226·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

600 reviews

Free product

19/ 600

3.2% of total95% positive

Early access

0/ 600

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

87/ 600

14.5% of total91% positive

Steam Deck

17/ 600

2.8% of total100% positive

Steam purchase

494/ 600

82.3% of total95% positive

Recommended

567/ 600

94.5% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

33/ 600

5.5% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

600/ 600

100.0% of total95% positive

522 reviews · 95% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.