How do players who really played eFootball rate it? TrueGG Rating 66.7%

Release date: Sep 29, 2021 Data as of 2026-10-17 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are recovering.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

66.7%

▲ +14.6 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 9,133 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 64.9%
Steam overall: 52.0%
Japanese, all time: 40.6%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 24.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 18.1%.

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 (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

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.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	26.1%	33.3%	437
1–2 h	30.3%	100.0%	251
2–5 h	71.0%	70.0%	1,310
5–10 h	75.5%	42.9%	1,460
10–20 h	78.3%	66.7%	1,633
20–50 h	75.5%	58.3%	2,161
50–100 h	68.8%	71.4%	1,467
100–200 h	60.7%	30.0%	1,276
200+ h	53.8%	15.8%	2,596

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 40% had 20+ hours and 19% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

eFootball has a TrueGG Rating of 66.7%: the positive share among 9,133 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours. That is 14.6 points above Steam's overall 52.0%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 64.9%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 24% of the total, and only 18% 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, approval peaks at 78% around 10–20h and falls to 54% at 200h+: in the current version, long-time players are harsher.

Negative reviews most often mention monetization and DLC (more than at launch), servers (more than at launch), and updates and the developers (more than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 40.6%, 26.1 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 49.0% (-3.0 points vs Steam overall); keep this in mind when reading the headline number.

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

What drives the rating

Complaints center on live operations and online play (Monetization & DLC, Servers & connection, Updates & developers). These shift over time, so weigh recent reviews more than the all-time figure. 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

Monetization & DLC18% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · more than at launch
Servers & connection12% of negative reviews (1% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · more than at launch
Updates & developers10% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · more than at launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel15% of positive reviews (9% of negative)

＋最高＋ nice＋ great＋評価＋ best＋ graphics＋面白＋ free− unplayable− terrible− lose− stupid− connection− scripted− pass− opponent

Counted from 600 recent negative and 520 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	52.0%	All time, all languages · 119,605 reviews
Adjusted rating	49.0%	Weighted by trust (95% range 48.1%–50.1%), −3.0pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	35.8%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−16.3pt vs overall) · 615 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	1%	10%
Very short text	59%	25%
Key activated outside Steam	0%	0%
Received for free	0%	0%
Owns very few games	38%	38%
Over 100 reviews written	0%	1%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.68	0.76

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 64.2 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▨ Negative spike

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.Shaded months were detected as concentrated waves of negative reviews (2021-09, 2021-10).Detection rule

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2021-09	847	8,553	9.0%
2021-10	1,891	11,602	14.0%
2021-11	832	2,049	28.9%
2021-12	242	872	21.7%
2022-01	176	742	19.2%
2022-02	165	625	20.9%
2022-03	145	521	21.8%
2022-04	1,998	1,832	52.2%
2022-05	1,234	1,235	50.0%
2022-06	908	1,046	46.5%
2022-07	587	811	42.0%
2022-08	610	847	41.9%
2022-09	602	929	39.3%
2022-10	895	860	51.0%
2022-11	1,021	711	58.9%
2022-12	1,375	985	58.3%
2023-01	1,376	1,057	56.6%
2023-02	946	786	54.6%
2023-03	903	738	55.0%
2023-04	898	707	56.0%
2023-05	711	658	51.9%
2023-06	1,007	723	58.2%
2023-07	920	774	54.3%
2023-08	706	710	49.9%
2023-09	2,003	1,494	57.3%
2023-10	1,301	939	58.1%
2023-11	1,214	734	62.3%
2023-12	1,184	663	64.1%
2024-01	1,231	693	64.0%
2024-02	949	594	61.5%
2024-03	1,065	605	63.8%
2024-04	1,004	592	62.9%
2024-05	827	598	58.0%
2024-06	1,027	612	62.7%
2024-07	1,051	703	59.9%
2024-08	866	557	60.9%
2024-09	1,348	809	62.5%
2024-10	1,156	673	63.2%
2024-11	953	579	62.2%
2024-12	1,064	672	61.3%
2025-01	949	614	60.7%
2025-02	915	548	62.5%
2025-03	897	575	60.9%
2025-04	1,089	562	66.0%
2025-05	1,022	538	65.5%
2025-06	1,177	634	65.0%
2025-07	1,171	715	62.1%
2025-08	1,325	749	63.9%
2025-09	858	653	56.8%
2025-10	997	589	62.9%
2025-11	941	579	61.9%
2025-12	1,128	559	66.9%
2026-01	1,015	646	61.1%
2026-02	964	523	64.8%
2026-03	976	560	63.5%
2026-04	1,187	725	62.1%
2026-05	1,199	705	63.0%
2026-06	1,190	644	64.9%
2026-07	1,606	754	68.1%
2026-08	2,146	989	68.5%
2026-09	1,123	709	61.3%
2026-10	761	394	65.9%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-18	35	21
2026-09-19	36	34
2026-09-20	52	28
2026-09-21	46	19
2026-09-22	29	27
2026-09-23	44	20
2026-09-24	39	22
2026-09-25	29	25
2026-09-26	40	28
2026-09-27	43	30
2026-09-28	27	22
2026-09-29	33	20
2026-09-30	30	18
2026-10-01	41	17
2026-10-02	35	21
2026-10-03	46	28
2026-10-04	39	22
2026-10-05	31	19
2026-10-06	28	15
2026-10-07	26	26
2026-10-08	113	32
2026-10-09	69	33
2026-10-10	71	28
2026-10-11	64	34
2026-10-12	38	24
2026-10-13	44	23
2026-10-14	23	25
2026-10-15	50	19
2026-10-16	34	24
2026-10-17	9	4