Data-driven insights into Steam game reception, review trends, and player sentiment.
When the Steam Summer Sale cut The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth to $1.49, its review rate jumped 14.5x overnight and held for two straight weeks. The daily data also shows something subtler: discount buyers review differently.
Every day at 03:00 UTC, SteamSense snapshots the review totals of 29,950 Steam games. This page explains where the data comes from, how the tracking pool is built, how we detect vanished reviews and anomalies — and what the numbers can't tell you.
MECCHA CHAMELEON reportedly sold 15 million copies in 27 days. Daily snapshots show its review score started in borderline territory and climbed for four straight weeks — while only 0.3% of buyers ever wrote a review.
Our first weekly review-anomaly report: two Steam score category changes, two games tripling their review pace, zero vanished reviews — and TBH: Task Bar Hero enters monitoring at 51.68% positive.
Steam review totals don't only go up. Reviews vanish through self-deletion, moderation, off-topic purges and account bans — and because removals skew negative, a shrinking review count can quietly raise a game's score.
Daily snapshots from May 2026 reveal an asymmetric cleanup: negative reviews vanished at twice the rate of positives, quietly lifting Slay the Spire 2's score from 62.15% to 63.55%.