Themes · complaint churn
Abandoned devs
No updates, an early access that never finished, a developer who left.
- Steam complaint749#9 of 11 · 353 reviews · 2.4% of negative reviews · median 36h
- Stated reason for quitting10#12 of 12 · 4 quit sentences
In HALL PASS
What responds to it.
- How player feedback gets inStaying reachableWorking practice
After a run, sometimes, the game asks one question about it: was that boss, that room or that period too easy, right, or too hard. Three answers and a skip. It never asks twice in a night and never asks at all if you have analytics turned off.
Per game
Where it shows up on Steam.
Weighted count in each game's reviews, with the share of that side and the median hours of the reviewers who raised it.
Per community
Where it shows up on Reddit.
| Community | In request threads | In praise | In complaints | In quit sentences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/vampiresurvivors | — | — | 721 306 items | 2 1 sentences |
| r/roguelites | — | — | 1,371 643 items | 8 3 sentences |
| r/roguelikes | — | — | 2,833 1,115 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/brotato | — | — | 331 157 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/SoulstoneSurvivors | — | — | 80 34 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/hallsoftorment | — | — | 66 30 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/DeathMustDie | — | — | 60 23 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/20MinutesTillDawn | — | — | 31 15 items | 0 0 sentences |
In their words
The highest-weighted reviews that matched.
Truncated to the first few hundred characters as they were in the harvest reports. The weight beside each is one plus the natural log of one plus its helpful votes.
Nothing pisses me off more than when one version of a game is abandoned in favour of a different one. The mobile port of this game still receives updates, where as the fully paid PC version is dead. Wouldn’t recommend buying anything from this dev to be honest, if this is how the
No update or message from the dev(s) in 6 months. Not sure if the game is abandoned or still worked on. I mean, the game is fun for what it is right now, but it is for from being finished. And without knowing if it is still being worked on I can't recommend it to anyone.
The game is developed at such a slow pace that it might as well be abandoned. The first planned release date has been missed by years by now, each new big update takes no less than a year, despite the fact that the content being added is hardly groundbreaking. Just to put it into
Normally, I don't write reviews to say a game is abandoned. But the way THIS game was abandoned is really bad. It still irks me, to be honest, because this game has a special place in my heart as one of the very first survivor-like games I played. Despite the next big update bein
How it was counted
The patterns that matched.
Case-insensitive regular expressions from the harvest scripts, reproduced as written. A review or sentence counts once for the theme if any pattern matches.
Steam harvester complaint
abandon\w+dead gameno (more )?updates?dev\w* (left|gave up|stopped)early access (forever|limbo)last update