A ranking of the most dissatisfied Steam gamers has been compiled — Russian-speaking users have found plenty of rivals
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
An analytics manager delved into Steam user reviews and assessed their positivity levels.
Recently, the Business Development Director at World's Edge studio shared the results of a study. Will McCahill evaluated the positivity level of Steam reviews for the period from 2014 to 2024.
As it turned out, dissatisfaction levels have been increasing in recent years: while in 2014 around 89% of reviews were “positive,” in 2018 this figure dropped to 83%.
However, in 2019 there was a sharp increase to 89% — a representative from GameDiscoverCo suggests this may be linked to the introduction of a feature prompting users to leave a review after spending some time in a game.
Since 2021, the level of “positivity” in reviews has been declining annually, reaching 84.2% as of 2024.
Ranking of the most dissatisfied Steam users by language:
- Japanese — 73% positive reviews;
- Traditional Chinese — 76% positive reviews;
- Simplified Chinese — 80% positive reviews;
- Korean — 81% positive reviews;
- German — 83% positive reviews;
- English — 84% positive reviews;
- Russian — 85% positive reviews;
- Turkish, French — 86% positive reviews;
- Hungarian — 87% positive reviews;
- Polish, Czech — 88% positive reviews.
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Cover art author: Valve. Image source: steamcommunity.com
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Screenshot author: Will McCahill. Image source: linkedin.com
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