Hobo: Tough Life — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$17.40Mest

grossAtFullPrice $17.40M · promo blend

Net to developer

$11.20Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

580,110▼ 100.0%

1,897 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$1.23M7% of LTD

57K units · $21.59 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 8,371 reviews collected over 5.1 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

57K

56,8959.8%

Tail · units

523K

523,21590.2%

Launch · gross

$1.23M

$1.23M7.1%

Tail · gross

$16.17M

$16.17M92.9%

Net to dev

$11.20M

$11.20M64.4%

01 Like Score

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

Tier D · ▲ 1 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

25%

→ 12

Score history · 30d retention

14 (14d ago)12 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Hobo: Tough Life · 25 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 12

No Time2.0K reviews · 97% pos · Lost in Days Studio · 2019

+3.2

Tales from The Dancing Moon33 reviews · 90% pos · DjMonkey · 2025

+1.4

Last Holiday386 reviews · 41% pos · Boomer Games s.r.o. · 2023

+1.1

Jesus Simulator19 reviews · 63% pos · VRCFORGE STUDIOS · 2026

+0.8

Manifest369 power defence4 reviews · 100% pos · ManifestStudios · 2025

+0.7

Drug Business42 reviews · 42% pos · Black Flamingo · 2022

+0.7

Woodswalker12 reviews · 50% pos · Matt Karge · 2026

+0.6

30 Floors of Madness7 reviews · 57% pos · Imaginary Conception · 2024

+0.5

摸金校尉之九幽将军10 reviews · 30% pos · 成都可可兰 · 2023

+0.3

Fire survival6 reviews · 33% pos · ByDesignk · 2024

+0.3

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+0.0

03 Hobo: Tough Life’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

0%0

0%0

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

85.2%cohort 71%

7,155 pos · 1,239 neg

Total reviews

8.4Ktracked

8,394 crawled

Velocity · 30d

2 / dayest

57 this month

Steam-purchase rate

84.2%flat

15.8% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

28 languages · top 12 shown

ZHSimplified Chinese

35.5%2,97983%

ENEnglish

27.7%2,32381%

CZCzech

15.1%1,26596%

RURussian

7.8%65789%

DEGerman

3.8%31583%

PLPolish

3.4%28891%

TWTraditional Chinese

1.8%14979%

JAJapanese

1.3%10991%

ESSpanish

0.9%7986%

FRFrench

0.5%4093%

TRTurkish

0.3%2763%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

0.3%2479%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 423

46%positive

5.0% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 2,347

75%positive

28.0% of reviews

10-100h 4,828

92%positive

57.5% of reviews

100h+ 796

94%positive

9.5% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 7,155Negative 1,239

5644232821410

20·0521·0221·1122·0823·0524·0224·1125·0826·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

8,394 reviews

Free product

144/ 8,394

1.7% of total83% positive

Early access

979/ 8,394

11.7% of total79% positive

Key activation

1,181/ 8,394

14.1% of total83% positive

Steam Deck

30/ 8,394

0.4% of total50% positive

Steam purchase

7,069/ 8,394

84.2% of total85% positive

Recommended

7,155/ 8,394

85.2% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

1,239/ 8,394

14.8% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

8,394/ 8,394

100.0% of total85% positive

8,371 reviews · 84% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.