AION 2
Image: Steam store (© respective owners)

How do players who really played AION 2 rate it? TrueGG Rating 62.7%

Release date: Oct 5, 2026 Data as of 2026-10-20 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

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players wary of microtransactions and DLC
  • Players who dislike repetitive grinding

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

This game is recent. Its ratings may still shift as more reviews come in.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
62.7%
▲ +4.7 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 22,809 reviews

TrueGG, all time
63.1%
Steam overall
57.9%
Japanese, 180 days
40.3%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 10.9% of all reviews. Their positive share is 19.4%.

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).

01 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 10 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h15%2,2121–2 h25%1,6682–5 h55%4,1475–10 h69%4,76710–20 h71%5,74520–50 h61%8,80550–100 h60%5,595100–200 h56%2,410200+ h50%254Positive share by playtime0–1 h2,21215%1–2 h1,66825%2–5 h4,14755%5–10 h4,76769%10–20 h5,74571%20–50 h8,80561%50–100 h5,59560%100–200 h2,41056%200+ h25450%

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 h15.1%25.0%2,212
1–2 h24.5%14.3%1,668
2–5 h54.7%30.8%4,147
5–10 h69.5%44.2%4,767
10–20 h70.7%53.4%5,745
20–50 h61.1%36.8%8,805
50–100 h60.4%35.5%5,595
100–200 h55.7%45.2%2,410
200+ h50.4%36.4%254

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 47% had 20+ hours and 6% had 100+ hours (all time).

02 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

Summary

AION 2 has a TrueGG Rating of 62.7%: the positive share among 22,809 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 57.9%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 63.1%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 11% of the total, and only 19% 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 71% around 10–20h and falls to 50% at 200h+: in the current version, long-time players are harsher.

Negative reviews most often mention monetization and DLC, grind, and boredom.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 40.3%, 22.4 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 53.8% (-4.1 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 2026-10-20.

03 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

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 & DLC24% of negative reviews (14% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved
  • Grind17% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
  • Boring / repetitive16% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
  • Servers & connection13% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch
  • Updates & developers11% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

No standout topics

+ awesome+ enjoying+ yes+ creation+ amazing+ casual+ mmos+ love− bosses− ncsoft− whole− waste− run− minutes− die− damage

Counted from 600 recent negative and 492 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

04 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating57.9%All time, all languages · 35,422 reviews
Adjusted rating53.8%Weighted by trust (95% range 53.0%–54.7%), −4.1pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews38.2%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−19.8pt vs overall) · 516 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 review1%9%
Very short text49%10%
Key activated outside Steam0%0%
Received for free0%0%
Owns very few games17%11%
Over 100 reviews written2%2%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.760.90

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 53.2 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-20

05 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

When did the rating change?

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

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 10k 20k 30k 2026-09: +8,769 / −4,784 2026-10: +12,154 / −10,368 2026/09

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 2026-09: 64.7%2026-10: 54.0% 2026/09

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 2026-09-30: +888 / −494 2026-10-01: +1,808 / −379 2026-10-02: +753 / −309 2026-10-03: +655 / −267 2026-10-04: +732 / −229 2026-10-05: +2,096 / −1,311 2026-10-06: +1,837 / −1,795 2026-10-07: +1,984 / −1,252 2026-10-08: +1,260 / −1,267 2026-10-09: +1,356 / −1,216 2026-10-10: +959 / −1,110 2026-10-11: +995 / −1,052 2026-10-12: +845 / −790 2026-10-13: +717 / −663 2026-10-14: +1,733 / −608 2026-10-15: +551 / −527 2026-10-16: +468 / −468 2026-10-17: +440 / −490 2026-10-18: +400 / −448 2026-10-19: +372 / −425 2026-10-20: +74 / −52 09/3010/0710/1410/20
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2026-098,7694,78464.7%
2026-1012,15410,36854.0%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-30888494
2026-10-011,808379
2026-10-02753309
2026-10-03655267
2026-10-04732229
2026-10-052,0961,311
2026-10-061,8371,795
2026-10-071,9841,252
2026-10-081,2601,267
2026-10-091,3561,216
2026-10-109591,110
2026-10-119951,052
2026-10-12845790
2026-10-13717663
2026-10-141,733608
2026-10-15551527
2026-10-16468468
2026-10-17440490
2026-10-18400448
2026-10-19372425
2026-10-207452
06 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days58.0%35,427
Last 180 days58.0%35,427
All time57.9%35,422
Japanese, last 180 days38.2%516
08 / TRUEGG INSIGHTS

About this verdict

Every figure is computed from review data that Steam makes public. No AI estimation is used.

Review text is never stored or republished. Read the actual reviews on Steam.

If you disagree with this verdict, please reach us via the contact on the About page. About