Steam reviews have become more negative over 5 years
But 2024 was not the record negative year in the last 10 years.
The study was conducted by Will McCahill, director of World’s Edge studio (responsible for developing the Age of Empires series), which Microsoft owns.
The percentage of positive reviews over the past 5 years has dropped from 90% to 84%. However, it cannot be said that users have become angrier - in 2018, positive reviews were at 83%.
The most positive reviews are published in Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Vietnamese, and Indonesian languages.
The least positive reviews are published by users from Japan, China, and South Korea.
Black Myth: Wukong accounts for about 30% of all positive reviews in Simplified Chinese on Steam (which is about 1 million reviews). If these are excluded from the overall picture, the share of positive reviews from Chinese players in Simplified Chinese decreases from 80% to 74%.
The leading languages for reviews on Steam are English, Simplified Chinese, and Russian.
