How To Grow a Black Hole — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$59Kest

grossAtFullPrice $60K · promo blend

Net to developer

$38Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

15,066▼ 100.0%

472 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$54K92% of LTD

14K units · $3.82 ASP

Confidence

low±18%

Based on 558 reviews collected over 2 months; English-dominant 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 · ▼ 9 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

36%

→ 3

Score history · 30d retention

87 (30d ago)3 (now)

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03 How To Grow a Black Hole’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#1IdleOn - The Incremental MMO

77%30K

#2Bills Must Be Paid

96%8.5K

#3Sir, We Have an Orc Problem

Review score

5/ 9

Mixed

% positive

67.9%cohort 71%

396 pos · 187 neg

Total reviews

583tracked

583 crawled

Velocity · all-time

6 / dayest

583 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

94.7%flat

5.3% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

16 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

65.9%38468%

RURussian

12.3%7272%

ZHSimplified Chinese

5.0%2952%

FRFrench

3.4%2075%

DEGerman

3.4%2075%

ESSpanish

2.6%1580%

KOKorean

1.9%1127%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.9%1164%

JAJapanese

0.9%560%

TRTurkish

0.7%4100%

CZCzech

0.5%3100%

ITItalian

0.5%3100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 117

44%positive

20.1% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 306

73%positive

52.5% of reviews

10-100h 152

78%positive

26.1% of reviews

100h+ 8

50%positive

1.4% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 396Negative 187

389292195970

26·0626·0726·08

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

583 reviews

Free product

10/ 583

1.7% of total90% positive

Early access

0/ 583

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

21/ 583

3.6% of total81% positive

Steam Deck

4/ 583

0.7% of total25% positive

Steam purchase

552/ 583

94.7% of total68% positive

Recommended

396/ 583

67.9% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

187/ 583

32.1% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

583/ 583

100.0% of total68% positive