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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how many people downloaded it? It had 51 reviews, but I don't know enough about steam reviews to say if 30 were the hackers or if that means a thousand people downloaded it.

[–] donuts 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Usually free games have twice the "sales" per review compared to paid games, so we're looking at 80-90 * 51 = 4,080-4,590 "sales" provided all the reviews were legit. It's not an exact science but a few thousand at least seems realistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

seems likely that there are a good number of people looking for new free games to try out