Steam Review System

[sew2004]

I just have a question about the "overall review" system. As I was browsing my wishlist, I was looking at Steam's "overall review" listings for the games. I noticed a few classifications such as "mixed" "positive" "mostly positive" "very positive" and "overwhelmingly positive." I assumed that each of those would fall under a certain percentage range of positive reviews, but I also noticed a lot of overlap, such as a "mixed" game having 75% positive reviews and a "very positive" game having 71% positive reviews. How does Steam decide which games have what classification of overall review scores? I've been using these a lot in the past to get a good feel of how well the community has recieved a game, but now I'm starting to wonder if it's even accurate at all.

[wuddih]

95 - 100 | 500+ reviews | positive | overwhelming
85 - 100 |  50+ reviews | positive | very
80 - 100 |   1+ reviews | positive
70 -  79 |   1+ reviews | positive | mostly
40 -  69 |   1+ reviews | mixed
20 -  39 |   1+ reviews | negative | mostly
 0 -  19 |   1+ reviews | negative
 0 -  19 |  50+ reviews | negative | very
 0 -  19 | 500+ reviews | negative | overwhelming

rating is required to have at least 10 reviews now. other then that, this should be still the same.

[Britannicus]

90% sure an 80% rating is also Very Positiveonce enough ratings are in.

[Rhyming_Rogue]

Thanks for the chart. I was kind of curious myself.

[Destange / Becky&Cloud]

This is another way to visualize it better :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/ivz45n/what_does_the_steam_ratings_like_very_negative_or/

[>_o]

Steam sucks with all the fake reviews and it forces the positive ones onto people over the negative ones.

[Tim]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.