Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
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How do players who really played Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet rate it? TrueGG Rating 83.4%

Release date: Feb 23, 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. Recent reviews are falling.

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 particular about controls and UI
  • Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
83.4%
▲ +4.6 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (all time) · 12,981 reviews

TrueGG, all time
83.4%
Steam overall
78.9%
Japanese, all time
70.8%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 7.7% of all reviews. Their positive share is 45.3%.

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 playtimeRanges from 10 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h41%7411–2 h50%7712–5 h74%2,2615–10 h79%2,79510–20 h80%3,51120–50 h82%5,03750–100 h86%2,508100–200 h89%1,224200+ h91%701Positive share by playtime0–1 h74141%1–2 h77150%2–5 h2,26174%5–10 h2,79579%10–20 h3,51180%20–50 h5,03782%50–100 h2,50886%100–200 h1,22489%200+ h70191%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (all time). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h40.9%25.0%741
1–2 h49.5%31.6%771
2–5 h74.3%30.8%2,261
5–10 h79.4%46.4%2,795
10–20 h79.8%53.2%3,511
20–50 h82.2%67.9%5,037
50–100 h86.1%75.9%2,508
100–200 h88.8%94.1%1,224
200+ h91.2%84.0%701

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 48% had 20+ hours and 10% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet has a TrueGG Rating of 83.4%, based on all-time reviews from players with 10+ hours (12,981 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 78.9%.

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 8% of the total, and only 45% 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 74% positive versus 91% at 200h+: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom, controls and UI (less than at launch), and pacing. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, monetization and DLC, and 難易度.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 70.8%, 12.6 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (79.3% 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, Controls, UI & camera, Movement & pacing). 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 / repetitive13% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
  • Controls, UI & camera12% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
  • Movement & pacing12% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
  • Crashes & bugs9% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · less than at launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel40% of positive reviews (17% of negative)
  • Monetization & DLC11% of positive reviews (7% of negative)
  • Difficulty9% of positive reviews (4% of negative)
  • Compared with earlier entries7% of positive reviews (4% of negative)
＋ 苦手＋ 個人的＋ パーツ＋ レベリング＋ エイムアシスト＋ nice＋ アファシス＋ 弱点− terrible− talking− sucks− save− worst− literally− awful− boring

Counted from 447 recent negative and 537 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 rating78.9%All time, all languages · 19,505 reviews
Adjusted rating79.3%Weighted by trust (95% range 78.7%–80.0%), +0.5pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews61.7%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−17.1pt vs overall) · 384 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 review7%26%
Very short text28%19%
Key activated outside Steam29%18%
Received for free2%1%
Owns very few games8%3%
Over 100 reviews written7%12%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.790.77

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 18.5 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 1,000 2,000 3,000 2018-02: +1,736 / −535 2018-03: +759 / −327 2018-04: +137 / −66 2018-05: +84 / −29 2018-06: +112 / −44 2018-07: +177 / −94 2018-08: +75 / −47 2018-09: +87 / −31 2018-10: +77 / −27 2018-11: +369 / −59 2018-12: +110 / −38 2019-01: +125 / −52 2019-02: +124 / −48 2019-03: +103 / −39 2019-04: +64 / −23 2019-05: +91 / −36 2019-06: +306 / −49 2019-07: +519 / −122 2019-08: +57 / −29 2019-09: +39 / −31 2019-10: +65 / −13 2019-11: +360 / −28 2019-12: +485 / −67 2020-01: +323 / −43 2020-02: +261 / −30 2020-03: +147 / −25 2020-04: +128 / −23 2020-05: +539 / −92 2020-06: +400 / −79 2020-07: +424 / −65 2020-08: +126 / −28 2020-09: +120 / −22 2020-10: +170 / −32 2020-11: +133 / −22 2020-12: +148 / −31 2021-01: +172 / −28 2021-02: +125 / −22 2021-03: +65 / −15 2021-04: +73 / −20 2021-05: +188 / −41 2021-06: +253 / −56 2021-07: +207 / −34 2021-08: +77 / −18 2021-09: +146 / −44 2021-10: +105 / −20 2021-11: +132 / −23 2021-12: +131 / −29 2022-01: +107 / −23 2022-02: +103 / −17 2022-03: +56 / −13 2022-04: +98 / −21 2022-05: +63 / −11 2022-06: +97 / −25 2022-07: +80 / −17 2022-08: +34 / −10 2022-09: +51 / −20 2022-10: +34 / −9 2022-11: +92 / −20 2022-12: +48 / −14 2023-01: +81 / −21 2023-02: +52 / −7 2023-03: +50 / −12 2023-04: +45 / −10 2023-05: +24 / −3 2023-06: +43 / −21 2023-07: +48 / −13 2023-08: +47 / −8 2023-09: +40 / −18 2023-10: +56 / −17 2023-11: +36 / −16 2023-12: +45 / −12 2024-01: +32 / −11 2024-02: +49 / −19 2024-03: +48 / −16 2024-04: +22 / −6 2024-05: +50 / −13 2024-06: +26 / −9 2024-07: +97 / −64 2024-08: +46 / −32 2024-09: +55 / −22 2024-10: +39 / −58 2024-11: +47 / −9 2024-12: +54 / −17 2025-01: +26 / −10 2025-02: +16 / −9 2025-03: +24 / −11 2025-04: +26 / −6 2025-05: +26 / −13 2025-06: +18 / −9 2025-07: +27 / −8 2025-08: +23 / −17 2025-09: +30 / −12 2025-10: +23 / −12 2025-11: +14 / −6 2025-12: +20 / −11 2026-01: +38 / −19 2026-02: +21 / −5 2026-03: +12 / −8 2026-04: +13 / −10 2026-05: +17 / −5 2026-06: +30 / −11 2026-07: +23 / −7 2026-08: +16 / −10 2026-09: +10 / −2 2026-10: +4 / −2 2018/022019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 78.9% 2018-02: 76.4%2018-03: 69.9%2018-04: 67.5%2018-05: 74.3%2018-06: 71.8%2018-07: 65.3%2018-08: 61.5%2018-09: 73.7%2018-10: 74.0%2018-11: 86.2%2018-12: 74.3%2019-01: 70.6%2019-02: 72.1%2019-03: 72.5%2019-04: 73.6%2019-05: 71.7%2019-06: 86.2%2019-07: 81.0%2019-08: 66.3%2019-09: 55.7%2019-10: 83.3%2019-11: 92.8%2019-12: 87.9%2020-01: 88.3%2020-02: 89.7%2020-03: 85.5%2020-04: 84.8%2020-05: 85.4%2020-06: 83.5%2020-07: 86.7%2020-08: 81.8%2020-09: 84.5%2020-10: 84.2%2020-11: 85.8%2020-12: 82.7%2021-01: 86.0%2021-02: 85.0%2021-03: 81.3%2021-04: 78.5%2021-05: 82.1%2021-06: 81.9%2021-07: 85.9%2021-08: 81.1%2021-09: 76.8%2021-10: 84.0%2021-11: 85.2%2021-12: 81.9%2022-01: 82.3%2022-02: 85.8%2022-03: 81.2%2022-04: 82.4%2022-05: 85.1%2022-06: 79.5%2022-07: 82.5%2022-08: 77.3%2022-09: 71.8%2022-10: 79.1%2022-11: 82.1%2022-12: 77.4%2023-01: 79.4%2023-02: 88.1%2023-03: 80.6%2023-04: 81.8%2023-06: 67.2%2023-07: 78.7%2023-08: 85.5%2023-09: 69.0%2023-10: 76.7%2023-11: 69.2%2023-12: 78.9%2024-01: 74.4%2024-02: 72.1%2024-03: 75.0%2024-05: 79.4%2024-06: 74.3%2024-07: 60.2%2024-08: 59.0%2024-09: 71.4%2024-10: 40.2%2024-11: 83.9%2024-12: 76.1%2025-01: 72.2%2025-03: 68.6%2025-04: 81.3%2025-05: 66.7%2025-07: 77.1%2025-08: 57.5%2025-09: 71.4%2025-10: 65.7%2025-12: 64.5%2026-01: 66.7%2026-06: 73.2%2026-07: 76.7% 2018/022019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2026-09-19: +1 / −0 2026-09-20: +0 / −1 2026-09-21: +0 / −0 2026-09-22: +1 / −0 2026-09-23: +0 / −0 2026-09-24: +2 / −0 2026-09-25: +0 / −0 2026-09-26: +0 / −0 2026-09-27: +0 / −0 2026-09-28: +1 / −0 2026-09-29: +2 / −0 2026-09-30: +0 / −0 2026-10-01: +0 / −0 2026-10-02: +0 / −0 2026-10-03: +0 / −0 2026-10-04: +0 / −0 2026-10-05: +1 / −1 2026-10-06: +0 / −0 2026-10-07: +0 / −0 2026-10-08: +1 / −1 2026-10-09: +0 / −0 2026-10-10: +0 / −0 2026-10-11: +0 / −0 2026-10-12: +0 / −0 2026-10-13: +0 / −0 2026-10-14: +0 / −0 2026-10-15: +0 / −0 2026-10-16: +0 / −0 2026-10-17: +1 / −0 2026-10-18: +1 / −0 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2018-021,73653576.4%
2018-0375932769.9%
2018-041376667.5%
2018-05842974.3%
2018-061124471.8%
2018-071779465.3%
2018-08754761.5%
2018-09873173.7%
2018-10772774.0%
2018-113695986.2%
2018-121103874.3%
2019-011255270.6%
2019-021244872.1%
2019-031033972.5%
2019-04642373.6%
2019-05913671.7%
2019-063064986.2%
2019-0751912281.0%
2019-08572966.3%
2019-09393155.7%
2019-10651383.3%
2019-113602892.8%
2019-124856787.9%
2020-013234388.3%
2020-022613089.7%
2020-031472585.5%
2020-041282384.8%
2020-055399285.4%
2020-064007983.5%
2020-074246586.7%
2020-081262881.8%
2020-091202284.5%
2020-101703284.2%
2020-111332285.8%
2020-121483182.7%
2021-011722886.0%
2021-021252285.0%
2021-03651581.3%
2021-04732078.5%
2021-051884182.1%
2021-062535681.9%
2021-072073485.9%
2021-08771881.1%
2021-091464476.8%
2021-101052084.0%
2021-111322385.2%
2021-121312981.9%
2022-011072382.3%
2022-021031785.8%
2022-03561381.2%
2022-04982182.4%
2022-05631185.1%
2022-06972579.5%
2022-07801782.5%
2022-08341077.3%
2022-09512071.8%
2022-1034979.1%
2022-11922082.1%
2022-12481477.4%
2023-01812179.4%
2023-0252788.1%
2023-03501280.6%
2023-04451081.8%
2023-0524388.9%
2023-06432167.2%
2023-07481378.7%
2023-0847885.5%
2023-09401869.0%
2023-10561776.7%
2023-11361669.2%
2023-12451278.9%
2024-01321174.4%
2024-02491972.1%
2024-03481675.0%
2024-0422678.6%
2024-05501379.4%
2024-0626974.3%
2024-07976460.2%
2024-08463259.0%
2024-09552271.4%
2024-10395840.2%
2024-1147983.9%
2024-12541776.1%
2025-01261072.2%
2025-0216964.0%
2025-03241168.6%
2025-0426681.3%
2025-05261366.7%
2025-0618966.7%
2025-0727877.1%
2025-08231757.5%
2025-09301271.4%
2025-10231265.7%
2025-1114670.0%
2025-12201164.5%
2026-01381966.7%
2026-0221580.8%
2026-0312860.0%
2026-04131056.5%
2026-0517577.3%
2026-06301173.2%
2026-0723776.7%
2026-08161061.5%
2026-0910283.3%
2026-104266.7%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days80.8%26
Last 180 days72.9%214
All time78.9%19,505
Japanese, last 180 days75.0%12
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