Project Wingman
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How do players who really played Project Wingman rate it? TrueGG Rating 97.2%

Release date: Dec 1, 2020 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 a good story and characters
  • Players who care about visuals and music

Think twice if you are

  • Players buying on the promise of future updates (complaints about the developers)
  • Players particular about controls and UI
  • Players who dislike repetitive grinding

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

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
97.2%
▲ +3.4 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 986 reviews

TrueGG, all time
97.2%
Steam overall
93.8%
Japanese, all time
94.6%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 8.4% of all reviews. Their positive share is 69.9%.

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 h29%411–2 h60%302–5 h81%845–10 h90%24310–20 h97%51620–50 h97%32850–100 h100%113100–200 h100%22200+ h100%7Positive share by playtime0–1 h4129%1–2 h3060%2–5 h8481%5–10 h24390%10–20 h51697%20–50 h32897%50–100 h113100%100–200 h22100%200+ h7100%

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 h29.3%—41
1–2 h60.0%—30
2–5 h81.0%100.0%84
5–10 h89.7%66.7%243
10–20 h96.5%83.3%516
20–50 h97.0%100.0%328
50–100 h100.0%100.0%113
100–200 h100.0%—22
200+ h100.0%—7

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 29% had 20+ hours and 2% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Project Wingman has a TrueGG Rating of 97.2%: the positive share among 986 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 93.8%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 97.2%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 8% of the total, and only 70% 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.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention updates and the developers (less than at launch), controls and UI, and crashes and bugs. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, the story, and graphics and music.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 94.6%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (94.6% 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, 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

  • Updates & developers21% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
  • Controls, UI & camera20% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · ongoing since launch
  • Crashes & bugs15% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
  • Boring / repetitive11% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · more than at launch
  • Grind8% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · more than at launch

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel34% of positive reviews (20% of negative)
  • Story21% of positive reviews (11% of negative)
  • Graphics & music19% of positive reviews (13% of negative)
  • Compared with earlier entries8% of positive reviews (3% of negative)
+ フライトシューティング+ 最高+ クオリティ+ 全編+ 日本語+ 一部+ 総評+ 通常− update− boring− tried− completely− unplayable− near− frustrating− die

Counted from 350 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.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating93.8%All time, all languages · 22,644 reviews
Adjusted rating94.6%Weighted by trust (95% range 94.3%–94.8%), +0.8pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews89.1%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−4.7pt vs overall) · 459 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 review4%36%
Very short text22%7%
Key activated outside Steam12%16%
Received for free1%1%
Owns very few games4%4%
Over 100 reviews written4%10%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.870.75

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 14.5 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 4,000 2020-12: +3,041 / −155 2021-01: +837 / −46 2021-02: +530 / −28 2021-03: +613 / −44 2021-04: +258 / −17 2021-05: +349 / −32 2021-06: +268 / −20 2021-07: +305 / −30 2021-08: +214 / −26 2021-09: +220 / −9 2021-10: +217 / −16 2021-11: +331 / −14 2021-12: +236 / −15 2022-01: +222 / −14 2022-02: +184 / −7 2022-03: +202 / −15 2022-04: +161 / −10 2022-05: +219 / −5 2022-06: +252 / −17 2022-07: +273 / −20 2022-08: +168 / −10 2022-09: +180 / −15 2022-10: +147 / −5 2022-11: +196 / −11 2022-12: +216 / −17 2023-01: +239 / −11 2023-02: +137 / −9 2023-03: +158 / −12 2023-04: +144 / −7 2023-05: +222 / −14 2023-06: +154 / −4 2023-07: +271 / −18 2023-08: +182 / −5 2023-09: +125 / −9 2023-10: +189 / −84 2023-11: +185 / −18 2023-12: +259 / −25 2024-01: +251 / −12 2024-02: +148 / −10 2024-03: +149 / −12 2024-04: +139 / −10 2024-05: +176 / −25 2024-06: +139 / −10 2024-07: +208 / −15 2024-08: +126 / −16 2024-09: +201 / −10 2024-10: +118 / −11 2024-11: +110 / −10 2024-12: +551 / −47 2025-01: +255 / −31 2025-02: +141 / −12 2025-03: +184 / −17 2025-04: +144 / −8 2025-05: +113 / −8 2025-06: +122 / −6 2025-07: +205 / −14 2025-08: +207 / −19 2025-09: +124 / −7 2025-10: +162 / −17 2025-11: +115 / −11 2025-12: +283 / −27 2026-01: +243 / −25 2026-02: +100 / −11 2026-03: +140 / −11 2026-04: +173 / −21 2026-05: +118 / −10 2026-06: +207 / −21 2026-07: +197 / −23 2026-08: +136 / −6 2026-09: +207 / −16 2026-10: +189 / −24 2021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 93.1% 2024-12: update 2020-12: 95.2%2021-01: 94.8%2021-02: 95.0%2021-03: 93.3%2021-04: 93.8%2021-05: 91.6%2021-06: 93.1%2021-07: 91.0%2021-08: 89.2%2021-09: 96.1%2021-10: 93.1%2021-11: 95.9%2021-12: 94.0%2022-01: 94.1%2022-02: 96.3%2022-03: 93.1%2022-04: 94.2%2022-05: 97.8%2022-06: 93.7%2022-07: 93.2%2022-08: 94.4%2022-09: 92.3%2022-10: 96.7%2022-11: 94.7%2022-12: 92.7%2023-01: 95.6%2023-02: 93.8%2023-03: 92.9%2023-04: 95.4%2023-05: 94.1%2023-06: 97.5%2023-07: 93.8%2023-08: 97.3%2023-09: 93.3%2023-10: 69.2%2023-11: 91.1%2023-12: 91.2%2024-01: 95.4%2024-02: 93.7%2024-03: 92.5%2024-04: 93.3%2024-05: 87.6%2024-06: 93.3%2024-07: 93.3%2024-08: 88.7%2024-09: 95.3%2024-10: 91.5%2024-11: 91.7%2024-12: 92.1%2025-01: 89.2%2025-02: 92.2%2025-03: 91.5%2025-04: 94.7%2025-05: 93.4%2025-06: 95.3%2025-07: 93.6%2025-08: 91.6%2025-09: 94.7%2025-10: 90.5%2025-11: 91.3%2025-12: 91.3%2026-01: 90.7%2026-02: 90.1%2026-03: 92.7%2026-04: 89.2%2026-05: 92.2%2026-06: 90.8%2026-07: 89.5%2026-08: 95.8%2026-09: 92.8%2026-10: 88.7% 2021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2024-12-01 DLC Release: Project Wingman: Frontline 59 Campaign 92% → 90% (−1.4pt)

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 5 10 15 20 2026-09-19: +13 / −2 2026-09-20: +11 / −2 2026-09-21: +6 / −1 2026-09-22: +11 / −0 2026-09-23: +10 / −1 2026-09-24: +10 / −1 2026-09-25: +6 / −0 2026-09-26: +13 / −2 2026-09-27: +12 / −1 2026-09-28: +7 / −1 2026-09-29: +12 / −0 2026-09-30: +8 / −3 2026-10-01: +6 / −0 2026-10-02: +8 / −3 2026-10-03: +17 / −1 2026-10-04: +17 / −1 2026-10-05: +12 / −2 2026-10-06: +17 / −1 2026-10-07: +9 / −2 2026-10-08: +9 / −3 2026-10-09: +5 / −0 2026-10-10: +17 / −2 2026-10-11: +16 / −1 2026-10-12: +8 / −3 2026-10-13: +10 / −0 2026-10-14: +12 / −1 2026-10-15: +6 / −1 2026-10-16: +3 / −1 2026-10-17: +12 / −2 2026-10-18: +5 / −0 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2020-123,04115595.2%
2021-018374694.8%
2021-025302895.0%
2021-036134493.3%
2021-042581793.8%
2021-053493291.6%
2021-062682093.1%
2021-073053091.0%
2021-082142689.2%
2021-09220996.1%
2021-102171693.1%
2021-113311495.9%
2021-122361594.0%
2022-012221494.1%
2022-02184796.3%
2022-032021593.1%
2022-041611094.2%
2022-05219597.8%
2022-062521793.7%
2022-072732093.2%
2022-081681094.4%
2022-091801592.3%
2022-10147596.7%
2022-111961194.7%
2022-122161792.7%
2023-012391195.6%
2023-02137993.8%
2023-031581292.9%
2023-04144795.4%
2023-052221494.1%
2023-06154497.5%
2023-072711893.8%
2023-08182597.3%
2023-09125993.3%
2023-101898469.2%
2023-111851891.1%
2023-122592591.2%
2024-012511295.4%
2024-021481093.7%
2024-031491292.5%
2024-041391093.3%
2024-051762587.6%
2024-061391093.3%
2024-072081593.3%
2024-081261688.7%
2024-092011095.3%
2024-101181191.5%
2024-111101091.7%
2024-125514792.1%
2025-012553189.2%
2025-021411292.2%
2025-031841791.5%
2025-04144894.7%
2025-05113893.4%
2025-06122695.3%
2025-072051493.6%
2025-082071991.6%
2025-09124794.7%
2025-101621790.5%
2025-111151191.3%
2025-122832791.3%
2026-012432590.7%
2026-021001190.1%
2026-031401192.7%
2026-041732189.2%
2026-051181092.2%
2026-062072190.8%
2026-071972389.5%
2026-08136695.8%
2026-092071692.8%
2026-101892488.7%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-19132
2026-09-20112
2026-09-2161
2026-09-22110
2026-09-23101
2026-09-24101
2026-09-2560
2026-09-26132
2026-09-27121
2026-09-2871
2026-09-29120
2026-09-3083
2026-10-0160
2026-10-0283
2026-10-03171
2026-10-04171
2026-10-05122
2026-10-06171
2026-10-0792
2026-10-0893
2026-10-0950
2026-10-10172
2026-10-11161
2026-10-1283
2026-10-13100
2026-10-14121
2026-10-1561
2026-10-1631
2026-10-17122
2026-10-1850
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days90.3%393
Last 180 days92.0%1,381
All time93.8%22,644
Japanese, last 180 days84.6%13
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