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Themes · praise

Pickup accessibility

Easy to learn, playable with one hand or half your attention.

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. Vampire Survivors4034.1% · median 47h · 315 reviews
  2. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor3443.9% · median 57h · 277 reviews
  3. Brotato3063.7% · median 68h · 249 reviews
  4. Soulstone Survivors2733.2% · median 70h · 216 reviews
  5. Halls of Torment2623.1% · median 36h · 216 reviews
  6. 20 Minutes Till Dawn2232.7% · median 22h · 178 reviews
  7. Megabonk1872.4% · median 39h · 166 reviews
  8. Death Must Die1802.0% · median 39h · 137 reviews
  9. Crimsonland984.6% · median 19h · 65 reviews
  10. Geometry Wars 3432.4% · median 20h · 28 reviews

Per community

Where it shows up on Reddit.

CommunityIn request threadsIn praiseIn complaintsIn quit sentences
r/vampiresurvivors—1,683 684 items——
r/roguelites—4,949 2,204 items——
r/roguelikes—4,875 1,951 items——
r/brotato—837 369 items——
r/SoulstoneSurvivors—157 69 items——
r/hallsoftorment—139 63 items——
r/DeathMustDie—141 68 items——
r/20MinutesTillDawn—30 14 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.

[h3]Let It In...[/h3] This game's not a looker. The dev is open about a portion of the spritework being pre-bought assets, and dunno how they got away with so much Castlevania property. Most spell effects and colours appear half-baked, animation barely exists, even the bosses are
Vampire Survivors · 15h playedw 6.2
340 hours of game play so for like $10 (including DLC). 100% achievements & 5 starred every vanilla character on both maps and now enjoying playing mod characters. Steam share also makes it a great game to just pick up and play with friends for 30-60 minutes. Fully recommend. My
Brotato · 488h playedw 4.6
This game is like crack cocaine and is highly addictive for our monkey brains. It doesn't take much skill, but it is #1 is being a good mindless timewaster.
Vampire Survivors · 13h playedw 4.5
it's just a fun time. good way to pass the time if you're bored and in a state of "i have games but no games" if that makes sense. it's just become my go-to shut my brain off and vibe game.
Vampire Survivors · 40h playedw 4.5
10/10 Pure digital crack. Ridiculously easy to pick up, but impossible to put down. You move a bit, chaos ensues, monsters/enemies everywhere, and suddenly it’s 1am you're 5 hours deep into the game and you’re saying just one more run for the 100th time. Plays great on desktop or the Steam Deck, ...
Vampire Survivors · 108h playedw 3.9
A great game to relax to while listening to good music and earning all the achievements to unlock all the powers, maps, and characters. The DLCs are good, and they don't make it much more expensive. I recommend it.
Vampire Survivors · 57h playedw 3.2

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

  • easy to (learn|pick)
  • pick up and play
  • one hand\w*
  • simple (controls|to play)
  • relax\w+
  • chill
  • mindless
  • brain ?off
  • podcast game
  • while (watching|listening)