Far Cry 5
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How do players who really played Far Cry 5 rate it? TrueGG Rating 87.3%

Release date: Mar 26, 2018 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 care about visuals and music

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players relying on Japanese (Japanese reviews rate it lower)

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
87.3%
▲ +6.2 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 3,947 reviews

TrueGG, all time
83.0%
Steam overall
81.1%
Japanese, all time
60.7%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 3.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 49.5%.

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 h33%1231–2 h54%1082–5 h79%7185–10 h81%89510–20 h81%1,34620–50 h86%2,59550–100 h89%970100–200 h92%269200+ h89%113Positive share by playtime0–1 h12333%1–2 h10854%2–5 h71879%5–10 h89581%10–20 h1,34681%20–50 h2,59586%50–100 h97089%100–200 h26992%200+ h11389%

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 h33.3%100.0%123
1–2 h53.7%—108
2–5 h78.8%100.0%718
5–10 h80.6%100.0%895
10–20 h80.7%0.0%1,346
20–50 h85.9%42.9%2,595
50–100 h89.4%—970
100–200 h91.8%—269
200+ h89.4%0.0%113

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 55% had 20+ hours and 5% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Far Cry 5 has a TrueGG Rating of 87.3%: the positive share among 3,947 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours. That is 6.2 points above Steam's overall 81.1%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 83.0%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 3% of the total, and only 50% 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 2–5h are 79% positive versus 92% at 100–200h: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom and crashes and bugs (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels and graphics and music.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 60.7%, 26.6 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (79.7% 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 (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

  • Boring / repetitive16% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
  • Crashes & bugs11% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · less than at launch

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel33% of positive reviews (23% of negative)
  • Graphics & music11% of positive reviews (6% of negative)
＋ モンタナ＋ favorite＋ 総評＋ 制圧＋ 本編＋ 自然＋ 集団＋ best− connect− worst− until− account− work− stuff− quests− mean

Counted from 522 recent negative and 600 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 rating81.1%All time, all languages · 190,655 reviews
Adjusted rating79.7%Weighted by trust (95% range 79.0%–80.3%), −1.4pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews59.8%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−21.3pt vs overall) · 552 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%9%
Very short text47%25%
Key activated outside Steam12%9%
Received for free1%1%
Owns very few games13%8%
Over 100 reviews written3%5%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.750.82

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 24.7 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 5,000 10k 2018-03: +5,361 / −1,834 2018-04: +5,516 / −2,891 2018-05: +1,082 / −696 2018-06: +716 / −564 2018-07: +563 / −420 2018-08: +387 / −318 2018-09: +302 / −239 2018-10: +217 / −133 2018-11: +1,828 / −284 2018-12: +740 / −432 2019-01: +699 / −386 2019-02: +1,182 / −627 2019-03: +566 / −288 2019-04: +467 / −223 2019-05: +303 / −169 2019-06: +1,123 / −198 2019-07: +1,422 / −244 2019-08: +200 / −105 2019-09: +190 / −118 2019-10: +326 / −133 2019-11: +1,917 / −264 2019-12: +2,945 / −422 2020-01: +2,424 / −389 2020-02: +2,424 / −565 2020-03: +3,604 / −687 2020-04: +1,672 / −323 2020-05: +1,736 / −359 2020-06: +1,259 / −244 2020-07: +5,735 / −1,228 2020-08: +1,990 / −489 2020-09: +1,091 / −236 2020-10: +1,237 / −261 2020-11: +2,901 / −443 2020-12: +2,871 / −466 2021-01: +3,397 / −575 2021-02: +1,709 / −283 2021-03: +2,603 / −458 2021-04: +1,571 / −294 2021-05: +1,602 / −236 2021-06: +3,267 / −609 2021-07: +3,805 / −759 2021-08: +4,113 / −914 2021-09: +1,386 / −307 2021-10: +1,352 / −279 2021-11: +1,623 / −241 2021-12: +2,311 / −402 2022-01: +1,910 / −330 2022-02: +1,888 / −354 2022-03: +1,355 / −284 2022-04: +663 / −143 2022-05: +526 / −118 2022-06: +907 / −189 2022-07: +1,092 / −250 2022-08: +806 / −165 2022-09: +702 / −150 2022-10: +726 / −156 2022-11: +1,332 / −216 2022-12: +1,099 / −269 2023-01: +1,023 / −236 2023-02: +524 / −126 2023-03: +2,203 / −562 2023-04: +1,626 / −317 2023-05: +1,014 / −232 2023-06: +761 / −167 2023-07: +1,732 / −332 2023-08: +972 / −227 2023-09: +1,122 / −229 2023-10: +785 / −147 2023-11: +1,897 / −301 2023-12: +1,197 / −207 2024-01: +1,791 / −392 2024-02: +1,198 / −226 2024-03: +1,211 / −234 2024-04: +1,042 / −228 2024-05: +817 / −192 2024-06: +949 / −233 2024-07: +1,726 / −377 2024-08: +1,226 / −271 2024-09: +870 / −190 2024-10: +835 / −166 2024-11: +1,113 / −230 2024-12: +2,104 / −464 2025-01: +1,654 / −341 2025-02: +810 / −183 2025-03: +3,083 / −746 2025-04: +1,322 / −295 2025-05: +828 / −208 2025-06: +823 / −243 2025-07: +1,086 / −284 2025-08: +949 / −234 2025-09: +715 / −178 2025-10: +933 / −196 2025-11: +829 / −155 2025-12: +1,173 / −239 2026-01: +1,300 / −240 2026-02: +712 / −133 2026-03: +1,572 / −345 2026-04: +701 / −152 2026-05: +952 / −205 2026-06: +726 / −145 2026-07: +1,076 / −246 2026-08: +856 / −187 2026-09: +934 / −206 2026-10: +715 / −143 2018/032019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 80.8% 2018-03: 74.5%2018-04: 65.6%2018-05: 60.9%2018-06: 55.9%2018-07: 57.3%2018-08: 54.9%2018-09: 55.8%2018-10: 62.0%2018-11: 86.6%2018-12: 63.1%2019-01: 64.4%2019-02: 65.3%2019-03: 66.3%2019-04: 67.7%2019-05: 64.2%2019-06: 85.0%2019-07: 85.4%2019-08: 65.6%2019-09: 61.7%2019-10: 71.0%2019-11: 87.9%2019-12: 87.5%2020-01: 86.2%2020-02: 81.1%2020-03: 84.0%2020-04: 83.8%2020-05: 82.9%2020-06: 83.8%2020-07: 82.4%2020-08: 80.3%2020-09: 82.2%2020-10: 82.6%2020-11: 86.8%2020-12: 86.0%2021-01: 85.5%2021-02: 85.8%2021-03: 85.0%2021-04: 84.2%2021-05: 87.2%2021-06: 84.3%2021-07: 83.4%2021-08: 81.8%2021-09: 81.9%2021-10: 82.9%2021-11: 87.1%2021-12: 85.2%2022-01: 85.3%2022-02: 84.2%2022-03: 82.7%2022-04: 82.3%2022-05: 81.7%2022-06: 82.8%2022-07: 81.4%2022-08: 83.0%2022-09: 82.4%2022-10: 82.3%2022-11: 86.0%2022-12: 80.3%2023-01: 81.3%2023-02: 80.6%2023-03: 79.7%2023-04: 83.7%2023-05: 81.4%2023-06: 82.0%2023-07: 83.9%2023-08: 81.1%2023-09: 83.0%2023-10: 84.2%2023-11: 86.3%2023-12: 85.3%2024-01: 82.0%2024-02: 84.1%2024-03: 83.8%2024-04: 82.0%2024-05: 81.0%2024-06: 80.3%2024-07: 82.1%2024-08: 81.9%2024-09: 82.1%2024-10: 83.4%2024-11: 82.9%2024-12: 81.9%2025-01: 82.9%2025-02: 81.6%2025-03: 80.5%2025-04: 81.8%2025-05: 79.9%2025-06: 77.2%2025-07: 79.3%2025-08: 80.2%2025-09: 80.1%2025-10: 82.6%2025-11: 84.2%2025-12: 83.1%2026-01: 84.4%2026-02: 84.3%2026-03: 82.0%2026-04: 82.2%2026-05: 82.3%2026-06: 83.4%2026-07: 81.4%2026-08: 82.1%2026-09: 81.9%2026-10: 83.3% 2018/032019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 50 100 2026-09-19: +34 / −10 2026-09-20: +43 / −12 2026-09-21: +37 / −14 2026-09-22: +58 / −7 2026-09-23: +42 / −13 2026-09-24: +42 / −13 2026-09-25: +50 / −11 2026-09-26: +70 / −7 2026-09-27: +74 / −11 2026-09-28: +56 / −8 2026-09-29: +48 / −9 2026-09-30: +46 / −12 2026-10-01: +56 / −9 2026-10-02: +40 / −8 2026-10-03: +55 / −16 2026-10-04: +60 / −9 2026-10-05: +32 / −8 2026-10-06: +55 / −7 2026-10-07: +47 / −12 2026-10-08: +38 / −3 2026-10-09: +39 / −8 2026-10-10: +39 / −6 2026-10-11: +50 / −7 2026-10-12: +38 / −7 2026-10-13: +32 / −8 2026-10-14: +39 / −8 2026-10-15: +31 / −6 2026-10-16: +21 / −6 2026-10-17: +27 / −8 2026-10-18: +16 / −7 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2018-035,3611,83474.5%
2018-045,5162,89165.6%
2018-051,08269660.9%
2018-0671656455.9%
2018-0756342057.3%
2018-0838731854.9%
2018-0930223955.8%
2018-1021713362.0%
2018-111,82828486.6%
2018-1274043263.1%
2019-0169938664.4%
2019-021,18262765.3%
2019-0356628866.3%
2019-0446722367.7%
2019-0530316964.2%
2019-061,12319885.0%
2019-071,42224485.4%
2019-0820010565.6%
2019-0919011861.7%
2019-1032613371.0%
2019-111,91726487.9%
2019-122,94542287.5%
2020-012,42438986.2%
2020-022,42456581.1%
2020-033,60468784.0%
2020-041,67232383.8%
2020-051,73635982.9%
2020-061,25924483.8%
2020-075,7351,22882.4%
2020-081,99048980.3%
2020-091,09123682.2%
2020-101,23726182.6%
2020-112,90144386.8%
2020-122,87146686.0%
2021-013,39757585.5%
2021-021,70928385.8%
2021-032,60345885.0%
2021-041,57129484.2%
2021-051,60223687.2%
2021-063,26760984.3%
2021-073,80575983.4%
2021-084,11391481.8%
2021-091,38630781.9%
2021-101,35227982.9%
2021-111,62324187.1%
2021-122,31140285.2%
2022-011,91033085.3%
2022-021,88835484.2%
2022-031,35528482.7%
2022-0466314382.3%
2022-0552611881.7%
2022-0690718982.8%
2022-071,09225081.4%
2022-0880616583.0%
2022-0970215082.4%
2022-1072615682.3%
2022-111,33221686.0%
2022-121,09926980.3%
2023-011,02323681.3%
2023-0252412680.6%
2023-032,20356279.7%
2023-041,62631783.7%
2023-051,01423281.4%
2023-0676116782.0%
2023-071,73233283.9%
2023-0897222781.1%
2023-091,12222983.0%
2023-1078514784.2%
2023-111,89730186.3%
2023-121,19720785.3%
2024-011,79139282.0%
2024-021,19822684.1%
2024-031,21123483.8%
2024-041,04222882.0%
2024-0581719281.0%
2024-0694923380.3%
2024-071,72637782.1%
2024-081,22627181.9%
2024-0987019082.1%
2024-1083516683.4%
2024-111,11323082.9%
2024-122,10446481.9%
2025-011,65434182.9%
2025-0281018381.6%
2025-033,08374680.5%
2025-041,32229581.8%
2025-0582820879.9%
2025-0682324377.2%
2025-071,08628479.3%
2025-0894923480.2%
2025-0971517880.1%
2025-1093319682.6%
2025-1182915584.2%
2025-121,17323983.1%
2026-011,30024084.4%
2026-0271213384.3%
2026-031,57234582.0%
2026-0470115282.2%
2026-0595220582.3%
2026-0672614583.4%
2026-071,07624681.4%
2026-0885618782.1%
2026-0993420681.9%
2026-1071514383.3%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-193410
2026-09-204312
2026-09-213714
2026-09-22587
2026-09-234213
2026-09-244213
2026-09-255011
2026-09-26707
2026-09-277411
2026-09-28568
2026-09-29489
2026-09-304612
2026-10-01569
2026-10-02408
2026-10-035516
2026-10-04609
2026-10-05328
2026-10-06557
2026-10-074712
2026-10-08383
2026-10-09398
2026-10-10396
2026-10-11507
2026-10-12387
2026-10-13328
2026-10-14398
2026-10-15316
2026-10-16216
2026-10-17278
2026-10-18167
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days83.3%1,715
Last 180 days82.9%7,116
All time81.1%190,655
Japanese, last 180 days46.7%15
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