How do players who really played DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 rate it? TrueGG Rating 45.2%

Release date: Feb 13, 2018 Data as of 2026-10-17 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 recovering.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

45.2%

▲ +9.4 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 5+ hours (all time) · 5,886 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 45.2%
Steam overall: 35.8%
Japanese, all time: 51.7%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 29.6% of all reviews. Their positive share is 18.2%.

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 (5h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

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

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	15.9%	10.3%	2,113
1–2 h	23.4%	5.6%	922
2–5 h	34.1%	23.8%	1,347
5–10 h	39.3%	37.9%	1,257
10–20 h	37.7%	37.5%	1,620
20–50 h	45.3%	50.0%	1,871
50–100 h	59.0%	62.9%	692
100–200 h	64.7%	86.7%	306
200+ h	75.0%	57.1%	140

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 5+ hours. 29% had 20+ hours and 4% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 has a TrueGG Rating of 45.2%, based on all-time reviews from players with 5+ hours (5,886 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 35.8%.

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 30% of the total, with 18% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

In the last 180 days, reviews at 2–5h are 34% positive versus 65% at 100–200h: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom (more than at launch) and controls and UI. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, the story, and monetization and DLC.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 39.8% (+3.9 points vs Steam overall); keep this in mind when reading the headline number.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-17.

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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). 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 / repetitive17% of negative reviews (9% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · more than at launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
Controls, UI & camera9% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel40% of positive reviews (20% of negative)
Story32% of positive reviews (21% of negative)
Monetization & DLC11% of positive reviews (8% of negative)
Price10% of positive reviews (6% of negative)

＋ favorite＋ beautiful＋ items＋ genre＋ traditional＋ enjoying＋ enjoyable＋ hate− trash− support− controls− 削除− controller− sucks− step− random

Counted from 453 recent negative and 402 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	35.8%	All time, all languages · 10,233 reviews
Adjusted rating	39.8%	Weighted by trust (95% range 38.5%–41.1%), +3.9pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	40.0%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (+4.2pt vs overall) · 255 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	12%	37%
Very short text	22%	24%
Key activated outside Steam	37%	50%
Received for free	24%	37%
Owns very few games	9%	7%
Over 100 reviews written	11%	12%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.73	0.62

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 19.2 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17

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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.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2018-02	580	2,881	16.8%
2018-03	80	170	32.0%
2018-04	77	76	50.3%
2018-05	30	43	41.1%
2018-06	24	26	48.0%
2018-07	11	36	23.4%
2018-08	7	26	21.2%
2018-09	13	22	37.1%
2018-10	11	27	28.9%
2018-11	61	32	65.6%
2018-12	20	19	51.3%
2019-01	21	19	52.5%
2019-02	21	26	44.7%
2019-03	17	20	45.9%
2019-04	5	8	38.5%
2019-05	10	10	50.0%
2019-06	25	15	62.5%
2019-07	22	17	56.4%
2019-08	4	16	20.0%
2019-09	8	9	47.1%
2019-10	32	27	54.2%
2019-11	36	21	63.2%
2019-12	17	14	54.8%
2020-01	41	18	69.5%
2020-02	54	28	65.9%
2020-03	50	34	59.5%
2020-04	31	20	60.8%
2020-05	25	17	59.5%
2020-06	18	9	66.7%
2020-07	31	16	66.0%
2020-08	52	29	64.2%
2020-09	17	11	60.7%
2020-10	17	11	60.7%
2020-11	17	10	63.0%
2020-12	16	7	69.6%
2021-01	27	23	54.0%
2021-02	27	16	62.8%
2021-03	21	11	65.6%
2021-04	58	20	74.4%
2021-05	76	45	62.8%
2021-06	23	20	53.5%
2021-07	17	16	51.5%
2021-08	20	20	50.0%
2021-09	19	13	59.4%
2021-10	15	10	60.0%
2021-11	24	14	63.2%
2021-12	26	18	59.1%
2022-01	8	10	44.4%
2022-02	10	10	50.0%
2022-03	5	9	35.7%
2022-04	18	15	54.5%
2022-05	30	18	62.5%
2022-06	6	10	37.5%
2022-07	14	7	66.7%
2022-08	6	9	40.0%
2022-09	14	17	45.2%
2022-10	13	13	50.0%
2022-11	8	12	40.0%
2022-12	14	7	66.7%
2023-01	25	26	49.0%
2023-02	10	9	52.6%
2023-03	14	9	60.9%
2023-04	14	8	63.6%
2023-05	10	11	47.6%
2023-06	4	10	28.6%
2023-07	19	10	65.5%
2023-08	7	10	41.2%
2023-09	11	9	55.0%
2023-10	15	10	60.0%
2023-11	7	12	36.8%
2023-12	13	16	44.8%
2024-01	18	5	78.3%
2024-02	11	16	40.7%
2024-03	6	7	46.2%
2024-04	7	5	58.3%
2024-05	13	6	68.4%
2024-06	6	4	60.0%
2024-07	6	3	66.7%
2024-08	16	12	57.1%
2024-09	10	4	71.4%
2024-10	11	4	73.3%
2024-11	10	9	52.6%
2024-12	13	10	56.5%
2025-01	13	9	59.1%
2025-02	6	11	35.3%
2025-03	6	3	66.7%
2025-04	3	3	50.0%
2025-05	6	7	46.2%
2025-06	4	3	57.1%
2025-07	4	4	50.0%
2025-08	8	2	80.0%
2025-09	4	7	36.4%
2025-10	5	5	50.0%
2025-11	4	0	100.0%
2025-12	4	5	44.4%
2026-01	8	4	66.7%
2026-02	6	6	50.0%
2026-03	3	4	42.9%
2026-04	1	5	16.7%
2026-05	5	5	50.0%
2026-06	2	7	22.2%
2026-07	5	5	50.0%
2026-08	4	4	50.0%
2026-09	1	4	20.0%
2026-10	5	0	100.0%

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