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Themes · praise

Depth mastery

Strategy, a skill ceiling, decisions that matter, getting better over time.

In HALL PASS

What responds to it.

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.

In positive reviews

  1. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor3814.1% · median 85h · 289 reviews
  2. Soulstone Survivors3644.1% · median 76h · 282 reviews
  3. Halls of Torment3083.1% · median 47h · 221 reviews
  4. Vampire Survivors2352.4% · median 61h · 179 reviews
  5. 20 Minutes Till Dawn2302.6% · median 24h · 173 reviews
  6. Brotato2052.5% · median 72h · 168 reviews
  7. Death Must Die1992.2% · median 41h · 148 reviews
  8. Crimsonland1104.2% · median 17h · 59 reviews
  9. Megabonk1081.4% · median 58h · 95 reviews
  10. Geometry Wars 3803.5% · median 12h · 41 reviews

Per community

Where it shows up on Reddit.

CommunityIn request threadsIn praiseIn complaintsIn quit sentences
r/vampiresurvivors—5,027 2,166 items——
r/roguelites—20,353 9,029 items——
r/roguelikes—27,250 10,950 items——
r/brotato—4,146 1,845 items——
r/SoulstoneSurvivors—1,571 661 items——
r/hallsoftorment—554 243 items——
r/DeathMustDie—323 146 items——
r/20MinutesTillDawn—193 88 items——

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.

The first thing I notice when starting up Geometry wars 3 for the first time are the stellar production values. The title screen alone with its swirling colored auras and a strange vector grid stretching out infinitely before you, the soothing electronic tones of the background m
Geometry Wars 3 · 31h playedw 6.4
Deep rock galatic survivor is a fantastic game with plenty of customization, loot and builds to play through that will keep you active for a long time. I am nearly 50 hours into the game, lets talk pros and cons: Pros: Graphics - Deep rock galactiv survivor has pretty nice lookin
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor · 96h playedw 5.1
I never played the original Crimsonland. Well actually that's not true; I tried the demo once and the game didn't really seem like anything special. After reading some great impressions from a friend, I decided to check out this new and improved Crimsonland and I'm very glad I di
Crimsonland · 4h playedw 4.6
This game have way more depth than i expected. first i thought the base skills on each type / elements sucks but then i got : - Runes - Characters & weapons unique skills - Artifact weapons - Ascensions yeah one of the best bullet hell games i've ever played.
Soulstone Survivors · 70h playedw 4.3
The POE of survivorlikes, Soulstone offers a significant amount of control over your runs. Massive skill tree of permanent upgrades, runes to amp up certain abilities, weapon crafting, unique material farming, several dozen characters, the content here is extremely impressive giv
Soulstone Survivors · 64h playedw 3.9
School desks eat up a large portion of your free time again, and would you therefore like to play on laptops while you compete with your classmates? Alternatively, you need to take a break from work, but you can't start anything new on your work laptop? Crimsonland could help you
Crimsonland · 17h playedw 3.6

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 praise

  • skill (ceiling|expression)
  • depth
  • strateg\w+
  • decision\w* (matter|are)
  • learn\w* (curve|to play)
  • master\w+
  • not (just )?luck
  • actually (hard|difficult|challenging)