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Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Release DateMay 15, 2014
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)97.2% (overwhelmingly positive) Top 3% / 97.2%  Top 3%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)95.4% Top 1% / 95.6%  Top 1%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)53.3K  Top 1% / 70.1K  Top 1%
Curators391 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time13.5 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar54 minutes  Top 30%
Followers142.1K  Top 1%
Owners± 6M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 4.3M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 12.6M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of BattleBlock Theater® steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows BattleBlock Theater®'s Steam rating and reviews from March 2014 to December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 100% (March 2014) and 97.2% (December 2023), with relatively small variations.

With its 70.1K reviews Top 1%, BattleBlock Theater® is indisputably a major AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for BattleBlock Theater® and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows BattleBlock Theater®'s reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (42%), followed by Simplified Chinese (22%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 28 languages represented. The game has been translated in 11 languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying BattleBlock Theater® percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in BattleBlock Theater®, comparing positive and negative reviews. The time in game is not bad at all, with 28 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 2.2 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. The negative review time is high (median is 6 hours), it can be a sign that BattleBlock Theater® crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult towards the end. The Players' feedback section might help understanding the issue.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • cool single player gameplay
  • awesome co-op gameplay
  • nice art style
  • plenty of jokes
  • unlockable character heads
  • unlockable weapons
  • user created levels and areas
  • funny narration and videos
  • great for 2-player co-op play
  • many achievements
  • some timed levels
  • highly frustrating
  • stressful gameplay
  • multiplayer community not very active
  • some grindy achievements
  • limited appeal for arena matches
  • short levels have potential to become repetitive
  • no easy option to replay completed levels for fun
  • requires co-op to complete all achievements
  • platformer gameplay not for everyone

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's 97.2% rating  Top 3% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of BattleBlock Theater®'s review data provided by Steam. Additionally, remember that not all issues need to be fixed, sometimes the best approach is to communicate better to manage the player's expectations.

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