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Valve Tweaks Steam Reviews With Language-Specific Scores to Cut Through the Noise

Steam now shows language-specific review scores by default for games with many reviews in one language.

Mihaela Kicevski by Mihaela Kicevski
August 19, 2025
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Valve just changed how Steam user reviews work, and it’s kinda a big deal for anyone who’s ever been confused by mixed ratings. Starting August 18, games with over 2,000 public reviews and at least 200 in the same language will automatically receive language-specific review scores. This means you’ll see ratings based on the language group you belong to, rather than one big overall score that mixes all opinions.

Why does this matter? Imagine a game that’s great overall but has issues with localization or network problems in certain regions. Before, you’d get a jumble of positive and negative reviews all mashed up, which made it hard to tell if the game was good for you. Now, Steam wants to “better distill the sentiment” of specific cultural groups, making the review system more relevant and helpful.

Valve doesn’t directly mention review bombs, but it’s hard not to think about recent events where games got flooded with negative reviews in one language. Take Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, which received numerous negative Chinese reviews due to performance issues. Or Helldivers 2, which got over 2,600 negative reviews in a day, mostly from Chinese players unhappy with the game’s direction. Maybe Valve is trying to stop those situations from significantly distorting the overall score.

Valve admits changes to User Reviews always come with skepticism about their motives. They say trust is super important, and they want to be transparent. Players can still access raw reviews in different ways, but the language-specific scores will be the default view. That’s supposed to help customers get useful info right away, no matter where they’re from.

One question, though: will this stop review bombs or just hide them better? Guess time will tell. But it’s a smart way to give people a clearer picture of how games are received in their own language communities. Kinda makes you wonder why it took this long.

Got thoughts on this update? Drop a comment below and let’s chat about how it might change your Steam experience.

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