Can you trust Helltaker's Steam reviews? Adjusted rating 98.1%

Release date: 2020年5月11日 View on Steam

Official Steam rating
97.7%
128,296 reviews
Adjusted rating
98.1%
95% range 98.0%–98.2%
vs official +0.4pt
Japanese-language reviews
95.6%
1,060 reviews
vs overall −2.1pt

Genuinely great 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-12

Summary

Helltaker holds an official Steam rating of 97.7%. After weighting 400 positive and 400 negative reviews by trust, the adjusted rating is 98.1% (95% range 98.0–98.2%), essentially the same as the official figure. Verdict: "Genuinely great" (the adjusted rating is 70% or higher and the positive reviews carry high average trust).

Average trust is 0.78 for positive and 0.63 for negative reviews, but the gap is too small to move the official rating much. The most common discount factor is reviews written with under 2 hours played, at 38% of all reviews.

The monthly history (78 months) has no month where volume and negative share jumped together. The rating does not appear to be driven by a single episode.

The last 180 days show 94.7% (last 30 days: 95.0%), close to the all-time figure.

Japanese-language reviews (1,060) show 95.6%, close to the overall rating.

The adjusted rating estimates trust from how reviews are written; it does not judge any individual review as fake. Data as of 2026-10-12.

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 review38%65%
Very short text27%34%
Key activated outside Steam0%0%
Received for free0%0%
Owns very few games7%4%
Over 100 reviews written5%7%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.780.63

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 2.1 hours.

Rating history

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

Reviews per month (green = positive, red = negative)
0 10k 20k 30k 2020-05: +14,242 / −211 2020-06: +23,636 / −464 2020-07: +11,049 / −278 2020-08: +4,461 / −156 2020-09: +2,158 / −78 2020-10: +1,876 / −67 2020-11: +20,700 / −185 2020-12: +3,333 / −79 2021-01: +2,234 / −70 2021-02: +1,467 / −34 2021-03: +1,496 / −44 2021-04: +1,381 / −48 2021-05: +4,971 / −124 2021-06: +1,950 / −56 2021-07: +1,410 / −36 2021-08: +1,277 / −47 2021-09: +1,025 / −34 2021-10: +999 / −24 2021-11: +1,271 / −33 2021-12: +949 / −27 2022-01: +1,160 / −34 2022-02: +1,014 / −28 2022-03: +920 / −25 2022-04: +926 / −38 2022-05: +861 / −31 2022-06: +892 / −29 2022-07: +945 / −54 2022-08: +864 / −34 2022-09: +664 / −23 2022-10: +587 / −25 2022-11: +836 / −19 2022-12: +734 / −32 2023-01: +998 / −42 2023-02: +718 / −22 2023-03: +751 / −32 2023-04: +735 / −25 2023-05: +752 / −21 2023-06: +802 / −40 2023-07: +990 / −43 2023-08: +937 / −40 2023-09: +726 / −25 2023-10: +714 / −37 2023-11: +792 / −23 2023-12: +778 / −32 2024-01: +924 / −42 2024-02: +714 / −36 2024-03: +779 / −41 2024-04: +713 / −34 2024-05: +710 / −28 2024-06: +743 / −35 2024-07: +965 / −37 2024-08: +802 / −43 2024-09: +780 / −32 2024-10: +890 / −31 2024-11: +1,181 / −21 2024-12: +973 / −43 2025-01: +1,935 / −62 2025-02: +694 / −35 2025-03: +627 / −26 2025-04: +552 / −11 2025-05: +521 / −28 2025-06: +572 / −30 2025-07: +533 / −29 2025-08: +457 / −31 2025-09: +378 / −16 2025-10: +449 / −20 2025-11: +428 / −12 2025-12: +446 / −30 2026-01: +476 / −30 2026-02: +395 / −19 2026-03: +407 / −16 2026-04: +459 / −23 2026-05: +445 / −29 2026-06: +416 / −29 2026-07: +502 / −22 2026-08: +430 / −25 2026-09: +369 / −17 2026-10: +118 / −9 2020/052021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01
Positive share per month (months under 30 reviews omitted)
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 97.4% 2020-05: 98.5%2020-06: 98.1%2020-07: 97.5%2020-08: 96.6%2020-09: 96.5%2020-10: 96.6%2020-11: 99.1%2020-12: 97.7%2021-01: 97.0%2021-02: 97.7%2021-03: 97.1%2021-04: 96.6%2021-05: 97.6%2021-06: 97.2%2021-07: 97.5%2021-08: 96.5%2021-09: 96.8%2021-10: 97.7%2021-11: 97.5%2021-12: 97.2%2022-01: 97.2%2022-02: 97.3%2022-03: 97.4%2022-04: 96.1%2022-05: 96.5%2022-06: 96.9%2022-07: 94.6%2022-08: 96.2%2022-09: 96.7%2022-10: 95.9%2022-11: 97.8%2022-12: 95.8%2023-01: 96.0%2023-02: 97.0%2023-03: 95.9%2023-04: 96.7%2023-05: 97.3%2023-06: 95.2%2023-07: 95.8%2023-08: 95.9%2023-09: 96.7%2023-10: 95.1%2023-11: 97.2%2023-12: 96.0%2024-01: 95.7%2024-02: 95.2%2024-03: 95.0%2024-04: 95.4%2024-05: 96.2%2024-06: 95.5%2024-07: 96.3%2024-08: 94.9%2024-09: 96.1%2024-10: 96.6%2024-11: 98.3%2024-12: 95.8%2025-01: 96.9%2025-02: 95.2%2025-03: 96.0%2025-04: 98.0%2025-05: 94.9%2025-06: 95.0%2025-07: 94.8%2025-08: 93.6%2025-09: 95.9%2025-10: 95.7%2025-11: 97.3%2025-12: 93.7%2026-01: 94.1%2026-02: 95.4%2026-03: 96.2%2026-04: 95.2%2026-05: 93.9%2026-06: 93.5%2026-07: 95.8%2026-08: 94.5%2026-09: 95.6%2026-10: 92.9% 2020/052021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01
Reviews per day, last 30 days
0 10 20 30 2026-09-13: +9 / −0 2026-09-14: +9 / −0 2026-09-15: +15 / −1 2026-09-16: +19 / −0 2026-09-17: +11 / −0 2026-09-18: +10 / −1 2026-09-19: +21 / −0 2026-09-20: +15 / −1 2026-09-21: +15 / −3 2026-09-22: +7 / −1 2026-09-23: +6 / −1 2026-09-24: +9 / −0 2026-09-25: +15 / −0 2026-09-26: +13 / −0 2026-09-27: +11 / −0 2026-09-28: +8 / −0 2026-09-29: +11 / −1 2026-09-30: +10 / −0 2026-10-01: +7 / −0 2026-10-02: +7 / −1 2026-10-03: +8 / −0 2026-10-04: +14 / −1 2026-10-05: +8 / −1 2026-10-06: +13 / −1 2026-10-07: +14 / −1 2026-10-08: +6 / −0 2026-10-09: +11 / −2 2026-10-10: +16 / −1 2026-10-11: +12 / −1 2026-10-12: +2 / −0 09/1309/2009/2710/0410/11

Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days95.0%357
Last 180 days94.7%2,567
All time97.7%128,296
Japanese, last 180 days100.0%9

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