How do players who really played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition rate it? TrueGG Rating 68.6%

Release date: May 20, 2025 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 ↗

68.6%

▲ +11.8 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 5+ hours (last 180 days) · 475 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 65.1%
Steam overall: 56.9%
Japanese, all time: —

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 29.2% of all reviews. Their positive share is 37.3%.

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 (5h+)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	46.7%	—	30
1–2 h	42.9%	—	14
2–5 h	61.5%	—	65
5–10 h	67.7%	—	93
10–20 h	69.7%	—	198
20–50 h	68.2%	100.0%	151
50–100 h	64.3%	100.0%	28
100–200 h	100.0%	—	4
200+ h	0.0%	—	1

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 5+ hours. 22% had 20+ hours and 1% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition has a TrueGG Rating of 68.6%: the positive share among 475 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 5+ hours. That is 11.8 points above Steam's overall 56.9%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 65.1%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 29% of the total, with 37% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs (more than at launch), the story (more than at launch), and updates and the developers. Positive reviews praise the world and atmosphere.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (56.4% 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

What drives the rating

Complaints center on technical quality (Crashes & bugs). These can be fixed, so check recent reviews too. 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

Crashes & bugs45% of negative reviews (19% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch · 19 positive reviews say it improved
Story19% of negative reviews (13% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch · 16 positive reviews say it improved
Updates & developers15% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch · 11 positive reviews say it improved
Movement & pacing8% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · more than at launch · 8 positive reviews say it improved

+ What players praise

World & atmosphere11% of positive reviews (5% of negative)

＋ others＋ scar＋ amazing＋ control＋ modern＋ atmosphere＋ recommend＋ easy− ass− aim− grab− srp− weird− suck− certain− awful

Counted from 301 recent negative and 312 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	56.9%	All time, all languages · 3,566 reviews
Adjusted rating	56.4%	Weighted by trust (95% range 55.3%–57.6%), −0.5pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	92.3%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (+35.4pt vs overall) · 13 reviews · Few reviews; indicative only

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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	5%	17%
Very short text	39%	14%
Key activated outside Steam	14%	21%
Received for free	6%	15%
Owns very few games	3%	1%
Over 100 reviews written	11%	13%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.77	0.78

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 16.3 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
2025-05	468	579	44.7%
2025-06	157	111	58.6%
2025-07	105	68	60.7%
2025-08	62	43	59.0%
2025-09	84	44	65.6%
2025-10	52	40	56.5%
2025-11	203	51	79.9%
2025-12	56	35	61.5%
2026-01	52	36	59.1%
2026-02	53	24	68.8%
2026-03	64	30	68.1%
2026-04	57	25	69.5%
2026-05	59	28	67.8%
2026-06	60	40	60.0%
2026-07	55	30	64.7%
2026-08	40	17	70.2%
2026-09	71	27	72.4%
2026-10	21	7	75.0%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-17	4	0
2026-09-18	0	0
2026-09-19	3	3
2026-09-20	3	2
2026-09-21	0	0
2026-09-22	1	0
2026-09-23	2	0
2026-09-24	2	0
2026-09-25	3	1
2026-09-26	0	0
2026-09-27	5	2
2026-09-28	3	0
2026-09-29	1	0
2026-09-30	1	2
2026-10-01	2	1
2026-10-02	1	0
2026-10-03	1	2
2026-10-04	1	2
2026-10-05	0	0
2026-10-06	2	0
2026-10-07	1	0
2026-10-08	3	0
2026-10-09	3	2
2026-10-10	1	1
2026-10-11	1	1
2026-10-12	2	0
2026-10-13	2	2
2026-10-14	3	0
2026-10-15	2	0
2026-10-16	1	1