How do players who really played Insurgency: Sandstorm rate it? TrueGG Rating 80.4%

Release date: Dec 12, 2018 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it lower than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are falling.

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Players buying on the promise of future updates (complaints about the developers)
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80.4%

▼ −4.4 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 1,842 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 87.5%
Steam overall: 84.8%
Japanese, all time: 84.4%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 7.3% of all reviews. Their positive share is 54.0%.

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 (10h+)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	39.8%	50.0%	113
1–2 h	56.3%	—	87
2–5 h	78.4%	0.0%	352
5–10 h	82.0%	—	327
10–20 h	83.3%	50.0%	430
20–50 h	81.3%	—	520
50–100 h	82.2%	100.0%	309
100–200 h	81.6%	—	255
200+ h	72.3%	100.0%	328

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 49% had 20+ hours and 16% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Insurgency: Sandstorm has a TrueGG Rating of 80.4%: the positive share among 1,842 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 84.8%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 87.5%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 7% of the total, and only 54% 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 83% around 10–20h and falls to 72% at 200h+: in the current version, long-time players are harsher.

Negative reviews most often mention updates and the developers, servers, and crashes and bugs. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels and performance.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 84.4%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (84.4% 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 live operations and online play (Updates & developers, Servers & connection). 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

Updates & developers14% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players
Servers & connection12% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players
Crashes & bugs9% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players
Boring / repetitive8% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among under 2h players

+ What players praise

Fun & feel34% of positive reviews (17% of negative)
Performance18% of positive reviews (11% of negative)

＋難易度＋豊富＋最高＋シビア＋気軽＋連携＋カジュアル＋セール− reason− unplayable− money− waste− terrible− mod− developers− completely

Counted from 386 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.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	84.8%	All time, all languages · 133,563 reviews
Adjusted rating	84.4%	Weighted by trust (95% range 83.9%–84.9%), −0.4pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	81.1%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−3.6pt vs overall) · 456 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	4%	18%
Very short text	40%	18%
Key activated outside Steam	14%	19%
Received for free	1%	1%
Owns very few games	10%	6%
Over 100 reviews written	1%	5%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.78	0.81

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 22.7 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

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
2026-10-14	Update 1.22 Operation: Echoes – Release Notes	—
2026-07-15	Update 1.21 Operation: Breachpoint – Minor Patch	80% → 74% (−6.3pt)
2026-05-28	Update 1.21 Operation: Breachpoint – Release Notes	80% → 77% (−2.2pt)
2026-02-24	Update 1.20 Operation: Clear Sight – Release Notes	84% → 80% (−4.1pt)
2025-10-21	Update 1.19 Operation: Shell Shock– Release Notes	79% → 84% (+4.9pt)
2025-04-14	Update 1.18 - Operation: Overrun Website is Live!	84% → 77% (−6.1pt)
2024-12-05	Update 1.17 Operation: Resurgence - Release Notes	84% → 84% (−0.2pt)
2024-11-27	Update 1.17 - Operation: Resurgence Website is Live!	84% → 78% (−5.6pt)
2024-07-26	Double XP is Live!	73% → 85% (+11.5pt)
2024-06-11	Update 1.16 Operation: Crisis - Release Notes	82% → 83% (+0.9pt)

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
2018-11	1	0	100.0%
2018-12	6,101	1,274	82.7%
2019-01	2,619	642	80.3%
2019-02	982	384	71.9%
2019-03	916	354	72.1%
2019-04	438	149	74.6%
2019-05	406	159	71.9%
2019-06	2,876	381	88.3%
2019-07	2,619	290	90.0%
2019-08	423	138	75.4%
2019-09	601	216	73.6%
2019-10	554	126	81.5%
2019-11	3,137	200	94.0%
2019-12	2,971	341	89.7%
2020-01	1,639	233	87.6%
2020-02	1,055	185	85.1%
2020-03	1,598	248	86.6%
2020-04	1,294	169	88.4%
2020-05	823	147	84.8%
2020-06	1,628	300	84.4%
2020-07	1,481	167	89.9%
2020-08	948	133	87.7%
2020-09	1,207	212	85.1%
2020-10	1,742	238	88.0%
2020-11	1,385	154	90.0%
2020-12	1,888	288	86.8%
2021-01	1,376	208	86.9%
2021-02	2,126	243	89.7%
2021-03	1,061	118	90.0%
2021-04	990	110	90.0%
2021-05	1,891	239	88.8%
2021-06	1,185	193	86.0%
2021-07	1,091	158	87.3%
2021-08	1,219	159	88.5%
2021-09	1,346	163	89.2%
2021-10	1,185	157	88.3%
2021-11	2,065	390	84.1%
2021-12	1,400	263	84.2%
2022-01	1,374	191	87.8%
2022-02	1,101	268	80.4%
2022-03	1,027	171	85.7%
2022-04	756	144	84.0%
2022-05	1,280	263	83.0%
2022-06	930	201	82.2%
2022-07	1,308	205	86.5%
2022-08	850	149	85.1%
2022-09	935	192	83.0%
2022-10	828	171	82.9%
2022-11	1,368	159	89.6%
2022-12	832	148	84.9%
2023-01	772	147	84.0%
2023-02	581	123	82.5%
2023-03	672	174	79.4%
2023-04	735	229	76.2%
2023-05	556	125	81.6%
2023-06	684	158	81.2%
2023-07	799	194	80.5%
2023-08	541	106	83.6%
2023-09	836	140	85.7%
2023-10	720	144	83.3%
2023-11	1,190	158	88.3%
2023-12	759	246	75.5%
2024-01	711	101	87.6%
2024-02	620	120	83.8%
2024-03	561	106	84.1%
2024-04	456	93	83.1%
2024-05	441	101	81.4%
2024-06	726	328	68.9%
2024-07	661	145	82.0%
2024-08	530	96	84.7%
2024-09	553	101	84.6%
2024-10	559	115	82.9%
2024-11	473	76	86.2%
2024-12	711	236	75.1%
2025-01	461	92	83.4%
2025-02	543	97	84.8%
2025-03	391	87	81.8%
2025-04	584	138	80.9%
2025-05	457	138	76.8%
2025-06	486	137	78.0%
2025-07	488	107	82.0%
2025-08	395	82	82.8%
2025-09	334	110	75.2%
2025-10	401	133	75.1%
2025-11	543	100	84.4%
2025-12	377	75	83.4%
2026-01	438	82	84.2%
2026-02	298	93	76.2%
2026-03	415	97	81.1%
2026-04	360	100	78.3%
2026-05	330	75	81.5%
2026-06	339	88	79.4%
2026-07	329	106	75.6%
2026-08	220	76	74.3%
2026-09	281	99	73.9%
2026-10	179	50	78.2%

Show daily data as a table

Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-19	13	2
2026-09-20	11	1
2026-09-21	6	2
2026-09-22	9	1
2026-09-23	5	1
2026-09-24	5	2
2026-09-25	6	1
2026-09-26	10	3
2026-09-27	10	4
2026-09-28	9	2
2026-09-29	5	3
2026-09-30	8	4
2026-10-01	13	6
2026-10-02	6	1
2026-10-03	7	2
2026-10-04	8	2
2026-10-05	12	1
2026-10-06	10	1
2026-10-07	8	1
2026-10-08	4	4
2026-10-09	7	1
2026-10-10	9	2
2026-10-11	8	1
2026-10-12	6	2
2026-10-13	9	3
2026-10-14	9	3
2026-10-15	14	8
2026-10-16	19	7
2026-10-17	19	1
2026-10-18	11	4

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	77.7%	408
Last 180 days	77.9%	2,714
All time	84.8%	133,563
Japanese, last 180 days	62.5%	8

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