Blasphemous
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How do players who really played Blasphemous rate it? TrueGG Rating 93.2%

Release date: Sep 10, 2019 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 who want to soak in the world and atmosphere

Think twice if you are

  • Players particular about controls and UI
  • Players who want a brisk pace
  • Players who want variety (reports that it gets monotonous)

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
93.2%
▲ +3.3 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 4,052 reviews

TrueGG, all time
94.4%
Steam overall
89.8%
Japanese, all time
85.1%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 6.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 64.8%.

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 h60%1561–2 h58%1392–5 h80%5995–10 h85%67010–20 h88%1,20720–50 h95%2,19550–100 h98%561100–200 h100%77200+ h100%12Positive share by playtime0–1 h15660%1–2 h13958%2–5 h59980%5–10 h67085%10–20 h1,20788%20–50 h2,19595%50–100 h56198%100–200 h77100%200+ h12100%

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 h60.3%100.0%156
1–2 h57.6%—139
2–5 h80.1%0.0%599
5–10 h85.4%100.0%670
10–20 h87.7%83.3%1,207
20–50 h94.8%92.3%2,195
50–100 h97.7%50.0%561
100–200 h100.0%100.0%77
200+ h100.0%—12

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 44% had 20+ hours and 1% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Blasphemous has a TrueGG Rating of 93.2%: the positive share among 4,052 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 89.8%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 94.4%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, and only 65% 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 80% positive versus 98% at 50–100h: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention controls and UI (less than at launch), pacing (less than at launch), and boredom (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise the world and atmosphere and 難易度.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 85.1%, 8.1 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (89.4% 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 (Controls, UI & camera, Movement & pacing, Boring / repetitive, Grind). 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

  • Controls, UI & camera22% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · less than at launch
  • Movement & pacing18% of negative reviews (10% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
  • Boring / repetitive15% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · less than at launch
  • Grind9% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
  • Updates & developers9% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch

+ What players praise

  • World & atmosphere30% of positive reviews (19% of negative)
  • Difficulty22% of positive reviews (15% of negative)
+ 表現+ 苦手+ peak+ 結構+ ワープポイント+ 実績+ 週目+ シンプル− less− devs− trash− button− both− clunky− sucks− stupid

Counted from 375 recent negative and 549 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 rating89.8%All time, all languages · 67,962 reviews
Adjusted rating89.4%Weighted by trust (95% range 89.1%–89.7%), −0.5pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews76.9%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−13.0pt vs overall) · 324 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 review5%21%
Very short text35%14%
Key activated outside Steam14%16%
Received for free1%1%
Owns very few games12%6%
Over 100 reviews written2%4%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.790.83

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 17.3 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 2019-09: +1,037 / −239 2019-10: +234 / −42 2019-11: +806 / −40 2019-12: +592 / −45 2020-01: +316 / −46 2020-02: +151 / −28 2020-03: +220 / −26 2020-04: +197 / −15 2020-05: +164 / −18 2020-06: +331 / −57 2020-07: +449 / −48 2020-08: +1,032 / −95 2020-09: +551 / −43 2020-10: +253 / −17 2020-11: +658 / −56 2020-12: +399 / −31 2021-01: +346 / −27 2021-02: +715 / −86 2021-03: +435 / −43 2021-04: +206 / −21 2021-05: +503 / −66 2021-06: +341 / −38 2021-07: +543 / −68 2021-08: +462 / −42 2021-09: +502 / −65 2021-10: +270 / −25 2021-11: +547 / −31 2021-12: +1,258 / −168 2022-01: +735 / −79 2022-02: +594 / −64 2022-03: +389 / −36 2022-04: +485 / −51 2022-05: +518 / −70 2022-06: +395 / −38 2022-07: +691 / −76 2022-08: +534 / −34 2022-09: +470 / −47 2022-10: +385 / −44 2022-11: +644 / −56 2022-12: +722 / −82 2023-01: +608 / −88 2023-02: +561 / −100 2023-03: +467 / −54 2023-04: +600 / −70 2023-05: +697 / −108 2023-06: +578 / −55 2023-07: +739 / −92 2023-08: +1,119 / −135 2023-09: +727 / −71 2023-10: +368 / −41 2023-11: +933 / −102 2023-12: +610 / −77 2024-01: +768 / −95 2024-02: +452 / −52 2024-03: +855 / −103 2024-04: +654 / −98 2024-05: +560 / −50 2024-06: +697 / −88 2024-07: +784 / −86 2024-08: +508 / −74 2024-09: +459 / −52 2024-10: +523 / −67 2024-11: +401 / −56 2024-12: +828 / −118 2025-01: +667 / −72 2025-02: +486 / −76 2025-03: +637 / −88 2025-04: +461 / −47 2025-05: +476 / −46 2025-06: +990 / −210 2025-07: +1,969 / −336 2025-08: +885 / −121 2025-09: +679 / −86 2025-10: +527 / −67 2025-11: +572 / −74 2025-12: +955 / −119 2026-01: +837 / −124 2026-02: +511 / −52 2026-03: +879 / −110 2026-04: +621 / −90 2026-05: +540 / −65 2026-06: +1,056 / −146 2026-07: +1,121 / −114 2026-08: +643 / −94 2026-09: +516 / −68 2026-10: +381 / −50 2019/092020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 89.1% 2025-02: update 2019-09: 81.3%2019-10: 84.8%2019-11: 95.3%2019-12: 92.9%2020-01: 87.3%2020-02: 84.4%2020-03: 89.4%2020-04: 92.9%2020-05: 90.1%2020-06: 85.3%2020-07: 90.3%2020-08: 91.6%2020-09: 92.8%2020-10: 93.7%2020-11: 92.2%2020-12: 92.8%2021-01: 92.8%2021-02: 89.3%2021-03: 91.0%2021-04: 90.7%2021-05: 88.4%2021-06: 90.0%2021-07: 88.9%2021-08: 91.7%2021-09: 88.5%2021-10: 91.5%2021-11: 94.6%2021-12: 88.2%2022-01: 90.3%2022-02: 90.3%2022-03: 91.5%2022-04: 90.5%2022-05: 88.1%2022-06: 91.2%2022-07: 90.1%2022-08: 94.0%2022-09: 90.9%2022-10: 89.7%2022-11: 92.0%2022-12: 89.8%2023-01: 87.4%2023-02: 84.9%2023-03: 89.6%2023-04: 89.6%2023-05: 86.6%2023-06: 91.3%2023-07: 88.9%2023-08: 89.2%2023-09: 91.1%2023-10: 90.0%2023-11: 90.1%2023-12: 88.8%2024-01: 89.0%2024-02: 89.7%2024-03: 89.2%2024-04: 87.0%2024-05: 91.8%2024-06: 88.8%2024-07: 90.1%2024-08: 87.3%2024-09: 89.8%2024-10: 88.6%2024-11: 87.7%2024-12: 87.5%2025-01: 90.3%2025-02: 86.5%2025-03: 87.9%2025-04: 90.7%2025-05: 91.2%2025-06: 82.5%2025-07: 85.4%2025-08: 88.0%2025-09: 88.8%2025-10: 88.7%2025-11: 88.5%2025-12: 88.9%2026-01: 87.1%2026-02: 90.8%2026-03: 88.9%2026-04: 87.3%2026-05: 89.3%2026-06: 87.9%2026-07: 90.8%2026-08: 87.2%2026-09: 88.4%2026-10: 88.4% 2019/092020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2025-02-25 Blasphemous: The Board Game campaign is live on Gamefound! 89% → 89% (+0.3pt)

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

0 10 20 30 40 2026-09-20: +21 / −2 2026-09-21: +15 / −1 2026-09-22: +9 / −0 2026-09-23: +11 / −2 2026-09-24: +11 / −2 2026-09-25: +22 / −0 2026-09-26: +19 / −4 2026-09-27: +14 / −3 2026-09-28: +13 / −1 2026-09-29: +12 / −5 2026-09-30: +14 / −0 2026-10-01: +12 / −3 2026-10-02: +12 / −2 2026-10-03: +20 / −0 2026-10-04: +24 / −4 2026-10-05: +19 / −2 2026-10-06: +24 / −2 2026-10-07: +29 / −3 2026-10-08: +18 / −2 2026-10-09: +19 / −5 2026-10-10: +25 / −4 2026-10-11: +25 / −4 2026-10-12: +24 / −3 2026-10-13: +24 / −2 2026-10-14: +19 / −1 2026-10-15: +20 / −2 2026-10-16: +18 / −2 2026-10-17: +23 / −5 2026-10-18: +25 / −4 2026-10-19: +1 / −0 09/2009/2710/0410/1110/18
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2019-091,03723981.3%
2019-102344284.8%
2019-118064095.3%
2019-125924592.9%
2020-013164687.3%
2020-021512884.4%
2020-032202689.4%
2020-041971592.9%
2020-051641890.1%
2020-063315785.3%
2020-074494890.3%
2020-081,0329591.6%
2020-095514392.8%
2020-102531793.7%
2020-116585692.2%
2020-123993192.8%
2021-013462792.8%
2021-027158689.3%
2021-034354391.0%
2021-042062190.7%
2021-055036688.4%
2021-063413890.0%
2021-075436888.9%
2021-084624291.7%
2021-095026588.5%
2021-102702591.5%
2021-115473194.6%
2021-121,25816888.2%
2022-017357990.3%
2022-025946490.3%
2022-033893691.5%
2022-044855190.5%
2022-055187088.1%
2022-063953891.2%
2022-076917690.1%
2022-085343494.0%
2022-094704790.9%
2022-103854489.7%
2022-116445692.0%
2022-127228289.8%
2023-016088887.4%
2023-0256110084.9%
2023-034675489.6%
2023-046007089.6%
2023-0569710886.6%
2023-065785591.3%
2023-077399288.9%
2023-081,11913589.2%
2023-097277191.1%
2023-103684190.0%
2023-1193310290.1%
2023-126107788.8%
2024-017689589.0%
2024-024525289.7%
2024-0385510389.2%
2024-046549887.0%
2024-055605091.8%
2024-066978888.8%
2024-077848690.1%
2024-085087487.3%
2024-094595289.8%
2024-105236788.6%
2024-114015687.7%
2024-1282811887.5%
2025-016677290.3%
2025-024867686.5%
2025-036378887.9%
2025-044614790.7%
2025-054764691.2%
2025-0699021082.5%
2025-071,96933685.4%
2025-0888512188.0%
2025-096798688.8%
2025-105276788.7%
2025-115727488.5%
2025-1295511988.9%
2026-0183712487.1%
2026-025115290.8%
2026-0387911088.9%
2026-046219087.3%
2026-055406589.3%
2026-061,05614687.9%
2026-071,12111490.8%
2026-086439487.2%
2026-095166888.4%
2026-103815088.4%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-20212
2026-09-21151
2026-09-2290
2026-09-23112
2026-09-24112
2026-09-25220
2026-09-26194
2026-09-27143
2026-09-28131
2026-09-29125
2026-09-30140
2026-10-01123
2026-10-02122
2026-10-03200
2026-10-04244
2026-10-05192
2026-10-06242
2026-10-07293
2026-10-08182
2026-10-09195
2026-10-10254
2026-10-11254
2026-10-12243
2026-10-13242
2026-10-14191
2026-10-15202
2026-10-16182
2026-10-17235
2026-10-18254
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days89.2%721
Last 180 days89.1%5,599
All time89.8%67,962
Japanese, last 180 days84.6%26
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