XCOM 2
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How do players who really played XCOM 2 rate it? TrueGG Rating 92.7%

Release date: Feb 4, 2016 Data as of 2026-10-19 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.

Good for

  • Players willing to push through a slow start
  • Players who want dozens of hours of play

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players bothered by bugs (reports of crashes and bugs)
  • Players particular about controls and UI

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
92.7%
▲ +8.0 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 2,156 reviews

TrueGG, all time
90.3%
Steam overall
84.7%
Japanese, all time
79.3%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 3.6% of all reviews. Their positive share is 39.7%.

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 h40%351–2 h24%342–5 h72%1415–10 h69%21910–20 h79%31520–50 h88%59550–100 h94%559100–200 h91%443200+ h98%559Positive share by playtime0–1 h3540%1–2 h3424%2–5 h14172%5–10 h21969%10–20 h31579%20–50 h59588%50–100 h55994%100–200 h44391%200+ h55998%

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 h40.0%—35
1–2 h23.5%—34
2–5 h72.3%0.0%141
5–10 h69.4%—219
10–20 h78.7%50.0%315
20–50 h87.9%66.7%595
50–100 h93.9%100.0%559
100–200 h91.2%100.0%443
200+ h97.7%100.0%559

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 74% had 20+ hours and 29% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

XCOM 2 has a TrueGG Rating of 92.7%: the positive share among 2,156 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours. That is 8.0 points above Steam's overall 84.7%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 90.3%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 4% of the total, and only 40% 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 5–10h are 69% positive versus 98% at 200h+: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs (less than at launch), controls and UI, and boredom. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, 前作・シリーズ, and monetization and DLC.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 79.3%, 13.4 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (84.0% 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 (Controls, UI & camera, Boring / repetitive). 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

  • Crashes & bugs18% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch · 10 positive reviews say it improved
  • Controls, UI & camera10% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
  • Boring / repetitive9% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel32% of positive reviews (21% of negative)
  • Compared with earlier entries16% of positive reviews (8% of negative)
  • Monetization & DLC14% of positive reviews (5% of negative)
＋ パート＋ 十分＋ 強化＋ 地球＋ アイアンマンモード＋ ノーマル＋ 初心者＋ 理解− stupid− garbage− force− annoying− hate− animations− walls− row

Counted from 406 recent negative and 580 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 rating84.7%All time, all languages · 109,996 reviews
Adjusted rating84.0%Weighted by trust (95% range 83.6%–84.5%), −0.7pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews72.6%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−12.1pt vs overall) · 387 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 review2%13%
Very short text31%14%
Key activated outside Steam22%22%
Received for free0%0%
Owns very few games12%6%
Over 100 reviews written5%5%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.800.84

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 43.1 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 2,000 4,000 6,000 2016-02: +4,619 / −1,203 2016-03: +724 / −164 2016-04: +237 / −65 2016-05: +286 / −47 2016-06: +389 / −117 2016-07: +364 / −103 2016-08: +335 / −93 2016-09: +161 / −41 2016-10: +248 / −43 2016-11: +1,108 / −62 2016-12: +334 / −75 2017-01: +349 / −77 2017-02: +197 / −36 2017-03: +275 / −72 2017-04: +167 / −41 2017-05: +133 / −23 2017-06: +481 / −98 2017-07: +514 / −123 2017-08: +501 / −108 2017-09: +639 / −148 2017-10: +264 / −51 2017-11: +1,168 / −66 2017-12: +302 / −94 2018-01: +274 / −72 2018-02: +247 / −68 2018-03: +268 / −92 2018-04: +134 / −32 2018-05: +316 / −111 2018-06: +208 / −60 2018-07: +225 / −66 2018-08: +304 / −96 2018-09: +122 / −27 2018-10: +333 / −61 2018-11: +1,056 / −62 2018-12: +334 / −97 2019-01: +255 / −72 2019-02: +217 / −82 2019-03: +227 / −62 2019-04: +156 / −36 2019-05: +171 / −56 2019-06: +919 / −67 2019-07: +1,057 / −74 2019-08: +171 / −68 2019-09: +111 / −25 2019-10: +292 / −30 2019-11: +1,914 / −104 2019-12: +1,657 / −107 2020-01: +1,262 / −77 2020-02: +1,090 / −91 2020-03: +1,260 / −125 2020-04: +1,440 / −137 2020-05: +1,751 / −215 2020-06: +592 / −57 2020-07: +804 / −90 2020-08: +438 / −52 2020-09: +614 / −64 2020-10: +499 / −58 2020-11: +603 / −54 2020-12: +699 / −66 2021-01: +672 / −66 2021-02: +1,675 / −384 2021-03: +898 / −122 2021-04: +552 / −316 2021-05: +422 / −136 2021-06: +594 / −151 2021-07: +572 / −117 2021-08: +698 / −576 2021-09: +386 / −99 2021-10: +472 / −154 2021-11: +579 / −138 2021-12: +859 / −220 2022-01: +663 / −148 2022-02: +1,081 / −351 2022-03: +809 / −305 2022-04: +643 / −200 2022-05: +599 / −133 2022-06: +413 / −104 2022-07: +536 / −128 2022-08: +492 / −94 2022-09: +476 / −103 2022-10: +419 / −78 2022-11: +485 / −81 2022-12: +557 / −111 2023-01: +526 / −81 2023-02: +440 / −117 2023-03: +481 / −110 2023-04: +330 / −54 2023-05: +404 / −86 2023-06: +388 / −82 2023-07: +540 / −103 2023-08: +381 / −55 2023-09: +385 / −66 2023-10: +272 / −50 2023-11: +362 / −58 2023-12: +369 / −64 2024-01: +519 / −90 2024-02: +432 / −88 2024-03: +617 / −139 2024-04: +449 / −100 2024-05: +392 / −79 2024-06: +411 / −83 2024-07: +410 / −82 2024-08: +385 / −76 2024-09: +281 / −56 2024-10: +566 / −112 2024-11: +501 / −93 2024-12: +497 / −94 2025-01: +414 / −72 2025-02: +388 / −73 2025-03: +409 / −56 2025-04: +407 / −70 2025-05: +369 / −64 2025-06: +323 / −476 2025-07: +358 / −130 2025-08: +364 / −67 2025-09: +314 / −43 2025-10: +359 / −46 2025-11: +416 / −48 2025-12: +363 / −60 2026-01: +355 / −35 2026-02: +478 / −93 2026-03: +286 / −57 2026-04: +323 / −51 2026-05: +377 / −59 2026-06: +250 / −37 2026-07: +328 / −54 2026-08: +378 / −72 2026-09: +334 / −47 2026-10: +211 / −40 2016/022017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 83.5% 2016-02: 79.3%2016-03: 81.5%2016-04: 78.5%2016-05: 85.9%2016-06: 76.9%2016-07: 77.9%2016-08: 78.3%2016-09: 79.7%2016-10: 85.2%2016-11: 94.7%2016-12: 81.7%2017-01: 81.9%2017-02: 84.5%2017-03: 79.3%2017-04: 80.3%2017-05: 85.3%2017-06: 83.1%2017-07: 80.7%2017-08: 82.3%2017-09: 81.2%2017-10: 83.8%2017-11: 94.7%2017-12: 76.3%2018-01: 79.2%2018-02: 78.4%2018-03: 74.4%2018-04: 80.7%2018-05: 74.0%2018-06: 77.6%2018-07: 77.3%2018-08: 76.0%2018-09: 81.9%2018-10: 84.5%2018-11: 94.5%2018-12: 77.5%2019-01: 78.0%2019-02: 72.6%2019-03: 78.5%2019-04: 81.3%2019-05: 75.3%2019-06: 93.2%2019-07: 93.5%2019-08: 71.5%2019-09: 81.6%2019-10: 90.7%2019-11: 94.8%2019-12: 93.9%2020-01: 94.2%2020-02: 92.3%2020-03: 91.0%2020-04: 91.3%2020-05: 89.1%2020-06: 91.2%2020-07: 89.9%2020-08: 89.4%2020-09: 90.6%2020-10: 89.6%2020-11: 91.8%2020-12: 91.4%2021-01: 91.1%2021-02: 81.4%2021-03: 88.0%2021-04: 63.6%2021-05: 75.6%2021-06: 79.7%2021-07: 83.0%2021-08: 54.8%2021-09: 79.6%2021-10: 75.4%2021-11: 80.8%2021-12: 79.6%2022-01: 81.8%2022-02: 75.5%2022-03: 72.6%2022-04: 76.3%2022-05: 81.8%2022-06: 79.9%2022-07: 80.7%2022-08: 84.0%2022-09: 82.2%2022-10: 84.3%2022-11: 85.7%2022-12: 83.4%2023-01: 86.7%2023-02: 79.0%2023-03: 81.4%2023-04: 85.9%2023-05: 82.4%2023-06: 82.6%2023-07: 84.0%2023-08: 87.4%2023-09: 85.4%2023-10: 84.5%2023-11: 86.2%2023-12: 85.2%2024-01: 85.2%2024-02: 83.1%2024-03: 81.6%2024-04: 81.8%2024-05: 83.2%2024-06: 83.2%2024-07: 83.3%2024-08: 83.5%2024-09: 83.4%2024-10: 83.5%2024-11: 84.3%2024-12: 84.1%2025-01: 85.2%2025-02: 84.2%2025-03: 88.0%2025-04: 85.3%2025-05: 85.2%2025-06: 40.4%2025-07: 73.4%2025-08: 84.5%2025-09: 88.0%2025-10: 88.6%2025-11: 89.7%2025-12: 85.8%2026-01: 91.0%2026-02: 83.7%2026-03: 83.4%2026-04: 86.4%2026-05: 86.5%2026-06: 87.1%2026-07: 85.9%2026-08: 84.0%2026-09: 87.7%2026-10: 84.1% 2016/022017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 10 20 30 2026-09-19: +10 / −1 2026-09-20: +12 / −1 2026-09-21: +9 / −1 2026-09-22: +8 / −1 2026-09-23: +6 / −1 2026-09-24: +5 / −0 2026-09-25: +8 / −3 2026-09-26: +8 / −3 2026-09-27: +11 / −2 2026-09-28: +13 / −0 2026-09-29: +9 / −2 2026-09-30: +8 / −1 2026-10-01: +9 / −3 2026-10-02: +16 / −1 2026-10-03: +13 / −4 2026-10-04: +12 / −1 2026-10-05: +17 / −1 2026-10-06: +14 / −2 2026-10-07: +9 / −0 2026-10-08: +11 / −0 2026-10-09: +15 / −6 2026-10-10: +10 / −2 2026-10-11: +10 / −1 2026-10-12: +7 / −2 2026-10-13: +13 / −2 2026-10-14: +10 / −2 2026-10-15: +10 / −3 2026-10-16: +16 / −4 2026-10-17: +9 / −3 2026-10-18: +10 / −3 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2016-024,6191,20379.3%
2016-0372416481.5%
2016-042376578.5%
2016-052864785.9%
2016-0638911776.9%
2016-0736410377.9%
2016-083359378.3%
2016-091614179.7%
2016-102484385.2%
2016-111,1086294.7%
2016-123347581.7%
2017-013497781.9%
2017-021973684.5%
2017-032757279.3%
2017-041674180.3%
2017-051332385.3%
2017-064819883.1%
2017-0751412380.7%
2017-0850110882.3%
2017-0963914881.2%
2017-102645183.8%
2017-111,1686694.7%
2017-123029476.3%
2018-012747279.2%
2018-022476878.4%
2018-032689274.4%
2018-041343280.7%
2018-0531611174.0%
2018-062086077.6%
2018-072256677.3%
2018-083049676.0%
2018-091222781.9%
2018-103336184.5%
2018-111,0566294.5%
2018-123349777.5%
2019-012557278.0%
2019-022178272.6%
2019-032276278.5%
2019-041563681.3%
2019-051715675.3%
2019-069196793.2%
2019-071,0577493.5%
2019-081716871.5%
2019-091112581.6%
2019-102923090.7%
2019-111,91410494.8%
2019-121,65710793.9%
2020-011,2627794.2%
2020-021,0909192.3%
2020-031,26012591.0%
2020-041,44013791.3%
2020-051,75121589.1%
2020-065925791.2%
2020-078049089.9%
2020-084385289.4%
2020-096146490.6%
2020-104995889.6%
2020-116035491.8%
2020-126996691.4%
2021-016726691.1%
2021-021,67538481.4%
2021-0389812288.0%
2021-0455231663.6%
2021-0542213675.6%
2021-0659415179.7%
2021-0757211783.0%
2021-0869857654.8%
2021-093869979.6%
2021-1047215475.4%
2021-1157913880.8%
2021-1285922079.6%
2022-0166314881.8%
2022-021,08135175.5%
2022-0380930572.6%
2022-0464320076.3%
2022-0559913381.8%
2022-0641310479.9%
2022-0753612880.7%
2022-084929484.0%
2022-0947610382.2%
2022-104197884.3%
2022-114858185.7%
2022-1255711183.4%
2023-015268186.7%
2023-0244011779.0%
2023-0348111081.4%
2023-043305485.9%
2023-054048682.4%
2023-063888282.6%
2023-0754010384.0%
2023-083815587.4%
2023-093856685.4%
2023-102725084.5%
2023-113625886.2%
2023-123696485.2%
2024-015199085.2%
2024-024328883.1%
2024-0361713981.6%
2024-0444910081.8%
2024-053927983.2%
2024-064118383.2%
2024-074108283.3%
2024-083857683.5%
2024-092815683.4%
2024-1056611283.5%
2024-115019384.3%
2024-124979484.1%
2025-014147285.2%
2025-023887384.2%
2025-034095688.0%
2025-044077085.3%
2025-053696485.2%
2025-0632347640.4%
2025-0735813073.4%
2025-083646784.5%
2025-093144388.0%
2025-103594688.6%
2025-114164889.7%
2025-123636085.8%
2026-013553591.0%
2026-024789383.7%
2026-032865783.4%
2026-043235186.4%
2026-053775986.5%
2026-062503787.1%
2026-073285485.9%
2026-083787284.0%
2026-093344787.7%
2026-102114084.1%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-19101
2026-09-20121
2026-09-2191
2026-09-2281
2026-09-2361
2026-09-2450
2026-09-2583
2026-09-2683
2026-09-27112
2026-09-28130
2026-09-2992
2026-09-3081
2026-10-0193
2026-10-02161
2026-10-03134
2026-10-04121
2026-10-05171
2026-10-06142
2026-10-0790
2026-10-08110
2026-10-09156
2026-10-10102
2026-10-11101
2026-10-1272
2026-10-13132
2026-10-14102
2026-10-15103
2026-10-16164
2026-10-1793
2026-10-18103
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days86.8%462
Last 180 days87.0%2,896
All time84.7%109,996
Japanese, last 180 days72.7%11
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