Enshrouded
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How do players who really played Enshrouded rate it? TrueGG Rating 84.2%

Release date: Oct 15, 2026 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are falling.

Good for

  • Players willing to push through a slow start
  • Players who care about visuals and music
  • Players who like setting their own goals

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players without a strong PC (reports of poor performance)
  • Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
84.2%
▼ −1.7 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 7,406 reviews

TrueGG, all time
90.2%
Steam overall
85.9%
Japanese, all time
81.4%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 5.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 49.7%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (20h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 20 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h19%1761–2 h30%1692–5 h68%5085–10 h75%81310–20 h73%1,06020–50 h78%1,87750–100 h83%1,878100–200 h86%1,935200+ h91%1,716Positive share by playtime0–1 h17619%1–2 h16930%2–5 h50868%5–10 h81375%10–20 h1,06073%20–50 h1,87778%50–100 h1,87883%100–200 h1,93586%200+ h1,71691%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h18.8%0.0%176
1–2 h29.6%50.0%169
2–5 h67.9%100.0%508
5–10 h74.7%66.7%813
10–20 h72.8%0.0%1,060
20–50 h78.0%68.8%1,877
50–100 h82.5%57.1%1,878
100–200 h85.8%68.8%1,935
200+ h90.7%75.0%1,716

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 62% had 20+ hours and 20% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Enshrouded has a TrueGG Rating of 84.2%: the positive share among 7,406 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours, close to Steam's overall 85.9%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 90.2%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 5% of the total, and only 50% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

In the last 180 days, reviews at 2–5h are 68% positive versus 91% at 200h+: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention performance, boredom, and crashes and bugs. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, graphics and music, and 難易度.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 81.4%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (85.2% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive, Movement & pacing, Controls, UI & camera). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

  • Performance16% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · ongoing since launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved
  • Boring / repetitive15% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
  • Crashes & bugs13% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved
  • Movement & pacing10% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 9 positive reviews say it improved
  • Controls, UI & camera7% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel45% of positive reviews (24% of negative)
  • Graphics & music13% of positive reviews (8% of negative)
  • Difficulty12% of positive reviews (5% of negative)
  • Freedom / sandbox12% of positive reviews (4% of negative)
+ 頑張+ リアル+ 重要+ 作品+ 冒険+ 単位+ タイプ+ 間違− edit− terrible− unplayable− literally− minutes− death− basic− menu

Counted from 466 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating85.9%All time, all languages · 108,714 reviews
Adjusted rating85.2%Weighted by trust (95% range 84.7%–85.6%), −0.7pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews75.5%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−10.4pt vs overall) · 678 reviews
Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review1%11%
Very short text32%11%
Key activated outside Steam16%16%
Received for free1%1%
Owns very few games11%5%
Over 100 reviews written4%3%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.810.86

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 41.5 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 5,000 10k 15k 20k 2024-01: +15,163 / −2,674 2024-02: +15,825 / −2,558 2024-03: +4,699 / −829 2024-04: +1,981 / −399 2024-05: +1,138 / −304 2024-06: +1,604 / −458 2024-07: +1,139 / −319 2024-08: +1,062 / −282 2024-09: +673 / −173 2024-10: +563 / −117 2024-11: +5,617 / −587 2024-12: +3,012 / −335 2025-01: +1,722 / −305 2025-02: +2,269 / −490 2025-03: +1,366 / −256 2025-04: +1,092 / −289 2025-05: +1,935 / −559 2025-06: +1,179 / −280 2025-07: +914 / −217 2025-08: +899 / −245 2025-09: +775 / −162 2025-10: +799 / −204 2025-11: +4,001 / −574 2025-12: +1,986 / −397 2026-01: +2,028 / −466 2026-02: +1,331 / −309 2026-03: +1,076 / −306 2026-04: +1,211 / −383 2026-05: +1,220 / −431 2026-06: +710 / −242 2026-07: +794 / −243 2026-08: +736 / −175 2026-09: +773 / −194 2026-10: +1,944 / −426 2024/012024/072025/012025/072026/012026/07

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 83.7% 2025-10: update2026-04: update2026-08: update2026-09: update2026-10: update 2024-01: 85.0%2024-02: 86.1%2024-03: 85.0%2024-04: 83.2%2024-05: 78.9%2024-06: 77.8%2024-07: 78.1%2024-08: 79.0%2024-09: 79.6%2024-10: 82.8%2024-11: 90.5%2024-12: 90.0%2025-01: 85.0%2025-02: 82.2%2025-03: 84.2%2025-04: 79.1%2025-05: 77.6%2025-06: 80.8%2025-07: 80.8%2025-08: 78.6%2025-09: 82.7%2025-10: 79.7%2025-11: 87.5%2025-12: 83.3%2026-01: 81.3%2026-02: 81.2%2026-03: 77.9%2026-04: 76.0%2026-05: 73.9%2026-06: 74.6%2026-07: 76.6%2026-08: 80.8%2026-09: 79.9%2026-10: 82.0% 2024/012024/072025/012025/072026/012026/07

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2026-10-15 Enshrouded 1.0 is LIVE! Check out our Highlights video! —
2026-09-23 1.0 Combat: changes and additions —
2026-08-27 We're still cooking for 1.0. Here's some news you may have missed! —
2026-04-09 Update 8: Forging the Path - Combat Changes 80% → 74% (−5.5pt)
2025-10-23 Enshrouded Dev Update 2025 80% → 86% (+5.6pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 200 400 600 800 2026-09-19: +22 / −9 2026-09-20: +30 / −10 2026-09-21: +21 / −4 2026-09-22: +24 / −6 2026-09-23: +21 / −5 2026-09-24: +27 / −4 2026-09-25: +30 / −3 2026-09-26: +17 / −1 2026-09-27: +31 / −8 2026-09-28: +18 / −5 2026-09-29: +21 / −7 2026-09-30: +18 / −7 2026-10-01: +21 / −6 2026-10-02: +15 / −5 2026-10-03: +26 / −7 2026-10-04: +20 / −4 2026-10-05: +17 / −5 2026-10-06: +21 / −1 2026-10-07: +27 / −4 2026-10-08: +28 / −5 2026-10-09: +24 / −8 2026-10-10: +30 / −4 2026-10-11: +39 / −5 2026-10-12: +36 / −1 2026-10-13: +37 / −3 2026-10-14: +109 / −4 2026-10-15: +536 / −82 2026-10-16: +450 / −130 2026-10-17: +278 / −86 2026-10-18: +230 / −66 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2024-0115,1632,67485.0%
2024-0215,8252,55886.1%
2024-034,69982985.0%
2024-041,98139983.2%
2024-051,13830478.9%
2024-061,60445877.8%
2024-071,13931978.1%
2024-081,06228279.0%
2024-0967317379.6%
2024-1056311782.8%
2024-115,61758790.5%
2024-123,01233590.0%
2025-011,72230585.0%
2025-022,26949082.2%
2025-031,36625684.2%
2025-041,09228979.1%
2025-051,93555977.6%
2025-061,17928080.8%
2025-0791421780.8%
2025-0889924578.6%
2025-0977516282.7%
2025-1079920479.7%
2025-114,00157487.5%
2025-121,98639783.3%
2026-012,02846681.3%
2026-021,33130981.2%
2026-031,07630677.9%
2026-041,21138376.0%
2026-051,22043173.9%
2026-0671024274.6%
2026-0779424376.6%
2026-0873617580.8%
2026-0977319479.9%
2026-101,94442682.0%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-19229
2026-09-203010
2026-09-21214
2026-09-22246
2026-09-23215
2026-09-24274
2026-09-25303
2026-09-26171
2026-09-27318
2026-09-28185
2026-09-29217
2026-09-30187
2026-10-01216
2026-10-02155
2026-10-03267
2026-10-04204
2026-10-05175
2026-10-06211
2026-10-07274
2026-10-08285
2026-10-09248
2026-10-10304
2026-10-11395
2026-10-12361
2026-10-13373
2026-10-141094
2026-10-1553682
2026-10-16450130
2026-10-1727886
2026-10-1823066
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days82.9%3,160
Last 180 days79.4%10,117
All time85.9%108,714
Japanese, last 180 days65.8%73
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