How do players who really played The Day Before rate it? TrueGG Rating 18.6%

Release date: Dec 7, 2023 Data as of 2026-10-17 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are recovering.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

18.6%

▲ +2.9 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 1+ hours (all time) · 16,636 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 18.6%
Steam overall: 15.7%
Japanese, all time: 25.1%

Early wall

Reviews written under 1 hour: 28.9% of all reviews. Their positive share is 8.3%.

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 (1h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

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

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	8.3%	13.8%	6,774
1–2 h	10.0%	13.5%	5,742
2–5 h	19.1%	24.6%	5,514
5–10 h	22.7%	28.2%	2,998
10–20 h	30.8%	33.9%	1,673
20–50 h	35.5%	43.3%	653
50–100 h	67.9%	—	53
100–200 h	66.7%	—	3
200+ h	—	—	0

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 1+ hours. 3% had 20+ hours and 0% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

The Day Before has a TrueGG Rating of 18.6%, based on all-time reviews from players with 1+ hours (16,636 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 15.7%.

Reviews written under 1 hour make up 29% of the total, with 8% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

In the last 180 days, reviews at 1–2h are 10% positive versus 36% at 20–50h: the more people play, the more they like it.

Positive reviews praise how fun it feels and 未完成・手抜き.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 25.1%, 6.5 points above all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (17.5% 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 2026-10-17.

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Why it is rated this way

− Most mentioned complaints

No standout topics

+ What players praise

Fun & feel23% of positive reviews (10% of negative)
Unfinished / low effort10% of positive reviews (5% of negative)

＋ amazing＋ overall＋ best＋ few＋ give＋ enjoy＋ fun＋ servers− グラフィック− trash− ポイント− scam− ジャンプ− サバイバル− 返品− 早期

Counted from 600 recent negative and 410 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.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	15.7%	All time, all languages · 23,163 reviews
Adjusted rating	17.5%	Weighted by trust (95% range 16.8%–18.1%), +1.8pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	23.2%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (+7.6pt vs overall) · 474 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.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	19%	43%
Very short text	26%	42%
Key activated outside Steam	0%	0%
Received for free	6%	2%
Owns very few games	14%	11%
Over 100 reviews written	2%	2%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.78	0.69

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 4.7 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17

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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

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2023-12	5,071	19,690	20.5%
2024-01	6	40	13.0%
2024-02	2	6	25.0%
2024-03	2	10	16.7%
2024-04	2	4	33.3%
2024-05	4	1	80.0%
2024-06	1	1	50.0%
2024-08	2	3	40.0%
2024-09	0	1	0.0%
2024-10	14	35	28.6%
2024-11	12	5	70.6%
2024-12	4	1	80.0%
2025-01	1	1	50.0%
2025-02	0	4	0.0%
2025-03	0	2	0.0%
2025-04	1	1	50.0%
2025-05	0	1	0.0%
2025-06	1	0	100.0%
2025-07	1	2	33.3%
2025-08	1	2	33.3%
2025-09	0	1	0.0%
2025-12	0	1	0.0%
2026-01	1	2	33.3%
2026-02	0	1	0.0%
2026-03	1	0	100.0%
2026-04	1	1	50.0%
2026-05	0	1	0.0%
2026-06	0	2	0.0%
2026-09	1	1	50.0%
2026-10	1	0	100.0%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-06	0	0
2026-09-07	0	0
2026-09-08	0	0
2026-09-09	0	0
2026-09-10	0	0
2026-09-11	0	0
2026-09-12	0	0
2026-09-13	0	0
2026-09-14	0	0
2026-09-15	0	0
2026-09-16	0	0
2026-09-17	0	0
2026-09-18	0	0
2026-09-19	0	0
2026-09-20	0	0
2026-09-21	0	0
2026-09-22	0	0
2026-09-23	0	0
2026-09-24	0	0
2026-09-25	1	0
2026-09-26	0	0
2026-09-27	0	0
2026-09-28	0	0
2026-09-29	0	0
2026-09-30	0	0
2026-10-01	0	0
2026-10-02	0	0
2026-10-03	0	0
2026-10-04	0	0
2026-10-05	1	0