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Themes · complaint churn

UI readability clutter

Cannot see the player or the projectiles; visual noise; small text.

In HALL PASS

What responds to it.

Scoreboard cluster 07 Readability: August AT-RISK, now Tuned 70% our estimate

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 negative reviews

  1. Soulstone Survivors1858.1% · median 26h · 86 reviews
  2. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor1702.7% · median 44h · 84 reviews
  3. 20 Minutes Till Dawn1355.7% · median 6h · 62 reviews
  4. Death Must Die802.8% · median 19h · 37 reviews
  5. Megabonk721.0% · median 15h · 35 reviews
  6. Vampire Survivors691.6% · median 20h · 34 reviews
  7. Halls of Torment562.9% · median 20h · 26 reviews
  8. Brotato381.3% · median 6h · 16 reviews
  9. Geometry Wars 33010.1% · median 3h · 13 reviews
  10. Crimsonland285.6% · median 4h · 8 reviews

Per community

Where it shows up on Reddit.

CommunityIn request threadsIn praiseIn complaintsIn quit sentences
r/vampiresurvivors——4,675 1,973 items2 1 sentences
r/roguelites——5,984 2,712 items7 4 sentences
r/roguelikes——13,373 5,406 items24 9 sentences
r/brotato——1,270 570 items0 0 sentences
r/SoulstoneSurvivors——483 195 items0 0 sentences
r/hallsoftorment——440 203 items0 0 sentences
r/DeathMustDie——173 73 items0 0 sentences
r/20MinutesTillDawn——122 57 items0 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.

Original Crimsonland (2004) is one of my most favourite games ever. But the Steam version is a serious step backwards. New graphics are not as pretty, new UI is bland and forgettable, and the worst crime of all - the Perks are gone from the quest mode. That's right, they only exi
Crimsonland · 4h playedw 6.5
Need to list a couple of disclaimers here: -- If you are just now considering whether to buy the game or not, DO. This is one of the best horde survival games on the market. There's a lot of content, especially with the Act II update, and you'll get your mo...
Death Must Diew 6.3
Pretty disappointed by this "remake"... if you could even call it that. This game has some new perks and a few new game modes, but that's about all that is new. All of the sound effects and music, for example, are 100% reused from the original-- in 2003, this kind of audio qualit
Crimsonland · 1h playedw 5.9
At first you are going to like this game. But after a period of time, you will realize, that the game has very little depth. Every run feels the same. This is because the enemies are just blobs of health and damage, with mildly varying movement patterns. Don't let that fool you into thinking ther...
Vampire Survivors · 14h playedw 5.4
General impression: Temper your expectations. Despite inexplicable hype, this game is extremely shallow and simple, bordering on a "Clicker-type" game. If you go in knowing that, you'll likely grow addicted to the brainless loop of wandering an auto-attacking character around a room for half an h...
Vampire Survivors · 11h playedw 5.3
Not the same kind of experience as the previous two. All of the new modes are trapped within the adventure mode, and you need to grind through them in a specific order to unlock them. The other reviews will tell how difficult it is to progress through the first batch. The progres
Geometry Wars 3 · 19h playedw 4.8
I loved Geometry Wars. I even loved playing it inside PGR3. This isn't Geometry Wars. This is pure, distilled BS and frustration packed into the most gimmicky package I have ever seen. Every single action or form of gameplay is obfuscated by some absolute crap-tier modern AAA win
Geometry Wars 3 · 7h playedw 3.6
The most barebones roguelike experience, without any flare or depth to make it worth your money or your time. The visuals are underwhelming (both the pixel art and the HUD) and the gameplay loop, the central aspect of any roguelike game, is pretty repetitive and gets boring after a couple of runs...
Vampire Survivors · 2h playedw 3.5
Convoluted mess. Nice little game to spend time e.g. while running/walking because does not take much finesse. Early and mid game can be enjoyable but I've noticed end game becomes more and more frustrating up to a point there is little point or enjoyment in playing, rather than leave the charact...
Vampire Survivors · 383h playedw 2.9

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

  • \bui\b
  • \bhud\b
  • can\'?t (see|read|tell)
  • visual (clutter|noise)
  • too (busy|cluttered)
  • font
  • eye ?strain
  • hard to (see|tell|read)
  • can\'?t see (myself|my character)