DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$160.89Mest

grossAtFullPrice $160.89M · promo blend

Net to developer

$103.61Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

4,023,311▼ 100.0%

0 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$00% of LTD

0 units · $0.00 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 81,279 reviews collected over 11.1 years; balanced multi-language 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

00.0%

Tail · units

4.0M

4,023,311100.0%

Launch · gross

$00.0%

Tail · gross

$160.89M

$160.89M100.0%

Net to dev

$103.61M

$103.61M64.4%

01 Like Score

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

Tier S · ▲ 3 7d

DCBAS ●

Inbound

1,003

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

114

Avg pos%

82%

→ 1,061

Score history · 30d retention

270 (14d ago)1,061 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin · 1,003 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 1,061

ELDEN RING815K reviews · 93% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2022

+5.5

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition253K reviews · 95% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2019

+5.1

DARK SOULS™ III275K reviews · 94% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2016

+5.1

Grim Dawn89K reviews · 93% pos · Crate Entertainment · 2016

+4.6

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED96K reviews · 92% pos · QLOC · 2018

+4.6

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition78K reviews · 91% pos · FromSoftware, Inc. · 2012

+4.5

Lies of P55K reviews · 91% pos · NEOWIZ · 2023

+4.3

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights42K reviews · 93% pos · Live Wire · 2021

+4.3

Nine Sols35K reviews · 94% pos · RedCandleGames · 2024

+4.3

Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition33K reviews · 87% pos · KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2021

+3.9

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+47.5

03 DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#3DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

#7Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

95%173K

#8ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

83%124K

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

81.8%cohort 71%

66,383 pos · 14,810 neg

Total reviews

81Ktracked

81,193 crawled

Velocity · 30d

41 / dayest

1,233 this month

Steam-purchase rate

59.7%flat

40.3% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

29 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

41.2%33,42481%

ZHSimplified Chinese

13.9%11,25876%

RURussian

11.3%9,19679%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

10.1%8,20592%

ESSpanish

8.1%6,53790%

KOKorean

2.2%1,76881%

DEGerman

2.0%1,61178%

TRTurkish

1.9%1,55281%

PLPolish

1.9%1,50480%

FRFrench

1.6%1,32781%

ESLatin American Spanish

1.6%1,27991%

ITItalian

1.1%87278%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 1,282

53%positive

1.6% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 12,150

71%positive

15.0% of reviews

10-100h 51,494

82%positive

63.4% of reviews

100h+ 16,267

91%positive

20.0% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 66,383Negative 14,810

2.2k1.7k1.1k5510

20·0821·0522·0222·1123·0824·0525·0225·1126·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

81,193 reviews

Free product

1,100/ 81,193

1.4% of total83% positive

Early access

0/ 81,193

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

31,598/ 81,193

38.9% of total80% positive

Steam Deck

647/ 81,193

0.8% of total81% positive

Steam purchase

48,495/ 81,193

59.7% of total82% positive

Recommended

66,383/ 81,193

81.8% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

14,810/ 81,193

18.2% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

81,193/ 81,193

100.0% of total82% positive

81,279 reviews · 84% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.