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Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Release DateSep 1, 2016
Price$ 1.99  Bottom 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)80.7% (positive) / 80.6%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)77.1% Top 30% / 77.2%  Top 30%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)1.3K  Top 15% / 1.4K  Top 15%
Curators27 reviews  Top 25%
Median Play Time4.8 hours
Play Time per Dollar2.4 hours  Top 10%
Followers7.7K  Top 10%
Owners± 78.4K  Top 20%
Copies Sold± 62.8K  Top 15%
Gross Revenue ($)± 196.1K  Top 20%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Underground Man steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see The Underground Man's Steam rating and reviews between September 2016 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 93.1% (September 2016) to 80.6% (December 2023).

The 1.4K reviews Top 10% suggest that The Underground Man might be an indie success or even a small AAA success. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Underground Man and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows The Underground Man's reviewers languages. The most popular language is Russian (81%), followed by English (17%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 15 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has 2 translations (English and Russian), it's always good to have more translations to access other markets.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Underground Man percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in The Underground Man depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is decent, reaching 10 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 10 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. A low negative review time (median : 39 minutes) can mean that the game crashes on some systems or that the type of gameplay was not completely clear to the players (Is the game unmistakably explained on the Steam Store ?). It is also possible that players were otherwise displeased by The Underground Man and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. The Players' feedback section might help understanding the issue.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Nice music
  • Retro theme
  • End of the world theme
  • Humor
  • Decent graphics
  • Unique deconstruction
  • Checkpoint system
  • Post-apocalyptic atmosphere
  • Abusive humor
  • Artistic side
  • Poorly translated
  • Lots of text
  • Dialogues too tedious
  • Difficult character creation
  • No way to save
  • Unskippable logo wait time
  • Unintentionally bad
  • Not playable
  • Obfuscates intentionally good
  • Trolls player

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 80.7% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of The Underground Man's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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