Can you trust Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege's Steam reviews? Adjusted rating 80.3%
Genuinely great 800 positive and 800 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-12
Summary
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege holds an official Steam rating of 82.1%. After weighting 800 positive and 800 negative reviews by trust, the adjusted rating is 80.3% (95% range 79.8–80.7%), essentially the same as the official figure. Verdict: "Genuinely great" (the adjusted rating is 70% or higher and the positive reviews carry high average trust).
Japanese-language reviews alone show 70.5% (5,610 reviews, 95% range 69.3–71.6%), 11.6 points below the overall rating. Players writing in Japanese are noticeably less positive. In the last 180 days, Japanese-language reviews show 61.4%.
The main driver is that positive reviews include more very short reviews (54% of positive vs 32% of negative). As a result, positive reviews average 0.70 in trust against 0.79 for negative ones.
Across 131 months of history, no month shows a concentrated wave of negative reviews. There is no sign of coordinated review activity.
The last 180 days show 73.8%, 8.3 points below the all-time figure. Sentiment over the past six months is weaker.
The adjusted rating estimates trust from how reviews are written; it does not judge any individual review as fake. Data as of 2026-10-12.
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% | 3% |
| Very short text | 54% | 32% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 0% | 0% |
| Received for free | 0% | 0% |
| Owns very few games | 34% | 27% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 0% | 0% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.70 | 0.79 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 64.6 hours.
Rating history
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 74.8% | 12,013 |
| Last 180 days | 73.8% | 69,212 |
| All time | 82.1% | 1,561,778 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 61.4% | 140 |
About this verdict
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