How do players who really played CrossCode rate it? TrueGG Rating 90.4%

Release date: Sep 20, 2018 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are falling.

Good for

Players who want to soak in the world and atmosphere

Think twice if you are

Players who dislike repetitive grinding
Players who want variety (reports that it gets monotonous)
Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

90.4%

▼ −2.0 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 591 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 95.7%
Steam overall: 92.3%
Japanese, all time: 86.5%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 4.1% of all reviews. Their positive share is 78.2%.

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 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	56.0%	—	25
1–2 h	66.7%	—	12
2–5 h	63.8%	—	47
5–10 h	62.1%	—	66
10–20 h	69.1%	0.0%	97
20–50 h	80.2%	100.0%	182
50–100 h	92.9%	60.0%	283
100–200 h	100.0%	100.0%	114
200+ h	91.7%	—	12

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 68% had 20+ hours and 13% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

CrossCode has a TrueGG Rating of 90.4%: the positive share among 591 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours, close to Steam's overall 92.3%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 95.7%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 4% of the total, with 78% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Negative reviews most often mention grind, boredom, and controls and UI. Positive reviews praise 難易度, monetization and DLC, and the world and atmosphere.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 86.5%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (92.4% 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 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Grind, Boring / repetitive, Controls, UI & camera). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you.

− Most mentioned complaints

Grind30% of negative reviews (9% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players
Boring / repetitive27% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players
Controls, UI & camera11% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among under 2h players

+ What players praise

Difficulty26% of positive reviews (19% of negative)
Monetization & DLC13% of positive reviews (6% of negative)
World & atmosphere13% of positive reviews (5% of negative)
Unfinished / low effort7% of positive reviews (5% of negative)

＋ gem＋魅力的＋丁寧＋日本語＋派手＋表情＋完成＋展開− boring− waste− chore− wasting− shame− poorly− dodging− terrible

Counted from 373 recent negative and 577 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	92.3%	All time, all languages · 18,545 reviews
Adjusted rating	92.4%	Weighted by trust (95% range 92.2%–92.6%), +0.1pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	79.1%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−13.2pt vs overall) · 350 reviews

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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	3%	10%
Very short text	15%	7%
Key activated outside Steam	8%	7%
Received for free	1%	0%
Owns very few games	2%	3%
Over 100 reviews written	8%	14%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.89	0.88

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 38.1 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

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

Date	Announcement	2 months before → after
2026-06-05	SHADE Protocol Kickstarter is now live!	82% → 82% (−0.4pt)
2025-10-13	Spindle is OUT NOW!	85% → 88% (+2.6pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2015-05	21	0	100.0%
2015-06	18	0	100.0%
2015-07	18	0	100.0%
2015-08	16	0	100.0%
2015-09	13	0	100.0%
2015-10	13	0	100.0%
2015-11	12	0	100.0%
2015-12	27	2	93.1%
2016-01	15	0	100.0%
2016-02	21	1	95.5%
2016-03	17	0	100.0%
2016-04	13	0	100.0%
2016-05	21	0	100.0%
2016-06	28	0	100.0%
2016-07	39	2	95.1%
2016-08	54	0	100.0%
2016-09	34	0	100.0%
2016-10	93	1	98.9%
2016-11	128	1	99.2%
2016-12	97	1	99.0%
2017-01	111	1	99.1%
2017-02	63	2	96.9%
2017-03	89	3	96.7%
2017-04	62	0	100.0%
2017-05	169	5	97.1%
2017-06	227	20	91.9%
2017-07	112	3	97.4%
2017-08	53	1	98.1%
2017-09	40	1	97.6%
2017-10	61	5	92.4%
2017-11	111	3	97.4%
2017-12	111	5	95.7%
2018-01	114	4	96.6%
2018-02	55	4	93.2%
2018-03	54	3	94.7%
2018-04	44	3	93.6%
2018-05	33	2	94.3%
2018-06	51	2	96.2%
2018-07	57	2	96.6%
2018-08	45	3	93.8%
2018-09	566	60	90.4%
2018-10	471	38	92.5%
2018-11	754	17	97.8%
2018-12	279	22	92.7%
2019-01	278	22	92.7%
2019-02	202	23	89.8%
2019-03	121	10	92.4%
2019-04	88	15	85.4%
2019-05	96	8	92.3%
2019-06	235	10	95.9%
2019-07	308	10	96.9%
2019-08	55	5	91.7%
2019-09	120	11	91.6%
2019-10	124	6	95.4%
2019-11	222	8	96.5%
2019-12	208	8	96.3%
2020-01	155	9	94.5%
2020-02	98	11	89.9%
2020-03	117	7	94.4%
2020-04	105	8	92.9%
2020-05	98	4	96.1%
2020-06	98	12	89.1%
2020-07	199	8	96.1%
2020-08	158	14	91.9%
2020-09	106	8	93.0%
2020-10	63	6	91.3%
2020-11	113	6	95.0%
2020-12	90	7	92.8%
2021-01	80	7	92.0%
2021-02	169	14	92.3%
2021-03	373	30	92.6%
2021-04	127	8	94.1%
2021-05	111	9	92.5%
2021-06	118	6	95.2%
2021-07	139	8	94.6%
2021-08	106	9	92.2%
2021-09	123	13	90.4%
2021-10	89	5	94.7%
2021-11	132	11	92.3%
2021-12	113	10	91.9%
2022-01	134	15	89.9%
2022-02	95	9	91.3%
2022-03	78	6	92.9%
2022-04	82	8	91.1%
2022-05	70	7	90.9%
2022-06	106	18	85.5%
2022-07	152	8	95.0%
2022-08	77	10	88.5%
2022-09	187	35	84.2%
2022-10	126	12	91.3%
2022-11	186	11	94.4%
2022-12	166	23	87.8%
2023-01	190	20	90.5%
2023-02	107	10	91.5%
2023-03	90	10	90.0%
2023-04	100	10	90.9%
2023-05	63	9	87.5%
2023-06	116	20	85.3%
2023-07	215	44	83.0%
2023-08	158	12	92.9%
2023-09	139	18	88.5%
2023-10	112	12	90.3%
2023-11	151	16	90.4%
2023-12	133	22	85.8%
2024-01	156	17	90.2%
2024-02	91	14	86.7%
2024-03	118	15	88.7%
2024-04	99	12	89.2%
2024-05	97	12	89.0%
2024-06	94	8	92.2%
2024-07	123	13	90.4%
2024-08	137	21	86.7%
2024-09	80	9	89.9%
2024-10	60	11	84.5%
2024-11	73	10	88.0%
2024-12	106	12	89.8%
2025-01	104	18	85.2%
2025-02	76	9	89.4%
2025-03	83	17	83.0%
2025-04	67	6	91.8%
2025-05	72	8	90.0%
2025-06	56	8	87.5%
2025-07	96	16	85.7%
2025-08	67	9	88.2%
2025-09	67	14	82.7%
2025-10	90	15	85.7%
2025-11	82	14	85.4%
2025-12	72	7	91.1%
2026-01	84	13	86.6%
2026-02	57	5	91.9%
2026-03	57	9	86.4%
2026-04	115	25	82.1%
2026-05	172	36	82.7%
2026-06	159	39	80.3%
2026-07	112	23	83.0%
2026-08	67	16	80.7%
2026-09	70	8	89.7%
2026-10	48	9	84.2%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-19	2	0
2026-09-20	1	0
2026-09-21	2	0
2026-09-22	2	0
2026-09-23	1	1
2026-09-24	1	1
2026-09-25	2	0
2026-09-26	5	0
2026-09-27	5	0
2026-09-28	0	0
2026-09-29	0	0
2026-09-30	4	0
2026-10-01	1	1
2026-10-02	7	0
2026-10-03	1	3
2026-10-04	4	0
2026-10-05	2	0
2026-10-06	2	0
2026-10-07	5	0
2026-10-08	0	2
2026-10-09	5	1
2026-10-10	5	0
2026-10-11	3	0
2026-10-12	1	1
2026-10-13	1	0
2026-10-14	2	0
2026-10-15	4	0
2026-10-16	1	0
2026-10-17	0	1
2026-10-18	4	0

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	85.1%	94
Last 180 days	82.8%	836
All time	92.3%	18,545
Japanese, last 180 days	69.2%	13

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