How do players who really played SCARLET NEXUS rate it? TrueGG Rating 71.3%
Players who really played rate it lower than Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are falling.
Good for
- Players who want to soak in the world and atmosphere
Think twice if you are
- Players who want variety (reports that it gets monotonous)
- Players who dislike repetitive grinding
- Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)
A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How
vs Steam overall
Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 275 reviews
- TrueGG, all time
- 83.6%
- Steam overall
- 80.3%
- Japanese, all time
- 75.4%
Early wall
Reviews written under 2 hours: 9.2% of all reviews. Their positive share is 61.3%.
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).
Does the rating change the longer people play?
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 | 35.3% | 0.0% | 17 |
| 1–2 h | 30.0% | — | 10 |
| 2–5 h | 62.1% | — | 29 |
| 5–10 h | 46.8% | 0.0% | 62 |
| 10–20 h | 50.6% | — | 81 |
| 20–50 h | 74.8% | 66.7% | 131 |
| 50–100 h | 88.9% | 100.0% | 54 |
| 100–200 h | 100.0% | — | 8 |
| 200+ h | 100.0% | — | 1 |
How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 45% had 20+ hours and 2% had 100+ hours (all time).
Summary
SCARLET NEXUS has a TrueGG Rating of 71.3%: the positive share among 275 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours. That is 9.0 points below Steam's overall 80.3%, so players who really play the current version are harsher than the headline number suggests (all time: 83.6%).
Reviews written under 2 hours make up 9% of the total, with 61% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.
Negative reviews most often mention boredom (more than at launch), grind, and updates and the developers (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise the world and atmosphere.
Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 75.4%, similar to all languages.
Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (81.0% 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.
Why it is rated this way
Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive, Grind). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you.
− Most mentioned complaints
- Boring / repetitive33% of negative reviews (10% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
- Grind16% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
- Updates & developers7% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
+ What players praise
- World & atmosphere10% of positive reviews (5% of negative)
Counted from 417 recent negative and 571 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
Checking the numbers
Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.
| Metric | Positive | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Official Steam rating | 80.3% | All time, all languages · 18,240 reviews |
| Adjusted rating | 81.0% | Weighted by trust (95% range 80.5%–81.5%), +0.7pt vs official |
| Japanese-language reviews | 69.9% | All time, Japanese-language reviews (−10.4pt vs overall) · 388 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.
| Condition | Positive reviews | Negative reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2 hours played at review | 5% | 14% |
| Very short text | 18% | 15% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 28% | 34% |
| Received for free | 1% | 1% |
| Owns very few games | 3% | 2% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 13% | 14% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.84 | 0.80 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 22.4 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19
When did the rating change?
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06 | 2,342 | 469 | 83.3% |
| 2021-07 | 1,459 | 204 | 87.7% |
| 2021-08 | 669 | 139 | 82.8% |
| 2021-09 | 413 | 57 | 87.9% |
| 2021-10 | 253 | 49 | 83.8% |
| 2021-11 | 506 | 46 | 91.7% |
| 2021-12 | 262 | 43 | 85.9% |
| 2022-01 | 172 | 41 | 80.8% |
| 2022-02 | 147 | 37 | 79.9% |
| 2022-03 | 337 | 73 | 82.2% |
| 2022-04 | 145 | 30 | 82.9% |
| 2022-05 | 129 | 28 | 82.2% |
| 2022-06 | 146 | 40 | 78.5% |
| 2022-07 | 114 | 31 | 78.6% |
| 2022-08 | 210 | 56 | 78.9% |
| 2022-09 | 153 | 44 | 77.7% |
| 2022-10 | 161 | 45 | 78.2% |
| 2022-11 | 256 | 57 | 81.8% |
| 2022-12 | 238 | 39 | 85.9% |
| 2023-01 | 267 | 73 | 78.5% |
| 2023-02 | 232 | 60 | 79.5% |
| 2023-03 | 157 | 41 | 79.3% |
| 2023-04 | 124 | 24 | 83.8% |
| 2023-05 | 79 | 25 | 76.0% |
| 2023-06 | 124 | 32 | 79.5% |
| 2023-07 | 131 | 45 | 74.4% |
| 2023-08 | 90 | 24 | 78.9% |
| 2023-09 | 71 | 24 | 74.7% |
| 2023-10 | 165 | 61 | 73.0% |
| 2023-11 | 129 | 35 | 78.7% |
| 2023-12 | 156 | 43 | 78.4% |
| 2024-01 | 130 | 53 | 71.0% |
| 2024-02 | 68 | 24 | 73.9% |
| 2024-03 | 115 | 31 | 78.8% |
| 2024-04 | 129 | 50 | 72.1% |
| 2024-05 | 101 | 25 | 80.2% |
| 2024-06 | 87 | 28 | 75.7% |
| 2024-07 | 104 | 41 | 71.7% |
| 2024-08 | 72 | 36 | 66.7% |
| 2024-09 | 59 | 30 | 66.3% |
| 2024-10 | 63 | 70 | 47.4% |
| 2024-11 | 51 | 22 | 69.9% |
| 2024-12 | 91 | 39 | 70.0% |
| 2025-01 | 67 | 23 | 74.4% |
| 2025-02 | 51 | 23 | 68.9% |
| 2025-03 | 47 | 25 | 65.3% |
| 2025-04 | 30 | 22 | 57.7% |
| 2025-05 | 54 | 19 | 74.0% |
| 2025-06 | 68 | 27 | 71.6% |
| 2025-07 | 41 | 17 | 70.7% |
| 2025-08 | 57 | 15 | 79.2% |
| 2025-09 | 36 | 14 | 72.0% |
| 2025-10 | 61 | 21 | 74.4% |
| 2025-11 | 42 | 14 | 75.0% |
| 2025-12 | 43 | 20 | 68.3% |
| 2026-01 | 47 | 18 | 72.3% |
| 2026-02 | 40 | 13 | 75.5% |
| 2026-03 | 40 | 14 | 74.1% |
| 2026-04 | 47 | 20 | 70.1% |
| 2026-05 | 32 | 19 | 62.7% |
| 2026-06 | 38 | 24 | 61.3% |
| 2026-07 | 28 | 18 | 60.9% |
| 2026-08 | 29 | 19 | 60.4% |
| 2026-09 | 29 | 7 | 80.6% |
| 2026-10 | 21 | 6 | 77.8% |
Show daily data as a table
| Day | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-09-20 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-24 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-09-25 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-26 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-09-27 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-09-30 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-10-01 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-02 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-03 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-10-04 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-06 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-07 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-08 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-09 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-10 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-10-11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-10-13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-14 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026-10-15 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-10-16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-17 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-18 | 2 | 1 |
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 82.0% | 61 |
| Last 180 days | 64.1% | 393 |
| All time | 80.3% | 18,240 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 61.5% | 13 |
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