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Company of Heroes

analyzed 2026-10-01 · sample of 409 English reviews across the whole review history

Across 409 sampled reviews, the aspects players raise most are gameplay and multiplayer, and both skew positive. Players describe working out how to "manage your troops to defeat and defend against enemy attacks", and call it a "Great multiplayer experience." Combat, graphics, realism, and sound design draw similar praise, while replayability, mods, and addictiveness are mentioned less often but almost never negatively. The campaigns and mission design come up favorably too, with players noting that "the standard missions are great and can be replayed over and over without getting boring". Opinion splits most sharply on balance and AI behavior. Balance mentions lean negative, with complaints about difficulty swinging between extremes and about specific units feeling inconsistent. AI draws more criticism than praise, including "the worst vehicle pathing I have ever seen". Bugs and stability are the clearest negatives: every sampled mention of each is negative, covering glitches, loading failures, and issues following a recent update. Controls and community also skew negative, while developer conduct and platform access are criticized in the reviews that raise them. Elsewhere the picture is favorable: difficulty, learning curve, content amount, level design, atmosphere, and price value are mostly praised, and DLC mentions lean positive.

numbers checked against this report's stored data · quotes copied verbatim from reviews · plain text is the language model's own wording

Aspects

share of sample, axis to 10% · ± is the sampling uncertainty around each share

  • positive
  • mixed / neutral
  • negative
  • gameplay

    36 positive · 1 negative · 2 mixed · 0 neutral

    • a good strategy game work out how to best manage your troops to defeat and defend against enemy attacks
      positive · Mar 31, 2022 · review 113135802
    • My personal favorite RTS WW2 was never this fun.
      positive · May 31, 2022 · review 116289452
    • this game is tons of fun and full of strategy.
      positive · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119835384
  • multiplayer

    24 positive · 3 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral

    • Great multiplayer experience.
      positive · Dec 31, 2021 · review 107004781
    • As one of the RTS genre's greats, Company of Heroes is entertaining when played on its own, and doubly so when played with friends or in multiplayer in general.
      positive · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117957226
    • The multiplayer mode in Company of Heroes is also impressive, offering players the chance to compete against others online.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133787015
  • balance

    9 positive · 14 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral

    • *The difficulty leads to some levels being a walk in the park and others pure CBT(Mortain for example).
      negative · Nov 29, 2022 · review 127539193
    • If you play the germans, spam Ritterkreuzträger and see how they dodge any kind of bullets, because those units are kinda op.
      negative · Jul 31, 2023 · review 143172531
    • Grenadiers with sheks are somehow invicible. Tanks on low health take more shots to destroy than to actually get them to low health. And this game has hands down the worst vehicle pathing I have ever seen, I will actually never complain about it in any other game anymore.
      negative · Apr 29, 2024 · review 163869871
  • graphics

    18 positive · 3 negative · 2 mixed · 1 neutral

    • Company of Heroes is an immersive and visually stunning real-time strategy game that will keep players engaged for hours.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133787015
    • All in all an excellent and responsive narrative setting coupled with graphics that do captivate and enthrall players regardless of age due to being stunningly beautiful it is mercifuly saved by an excruciatingly idiotic experience of applied late-stage dementia level …
      positive · Oct 30, 2024 · review 178059850
    • The sound design, graphics and level design all hold up after so many years.
      positive · Jul 30, 2025 · review 201104167
  • ai behavior

    6 positive · 14 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • *Wehrmacht campaign is unbelievably good and tough(if you enjoy playing defence) albeit unfortunately a bit buggy, with the attacking forces having extreme tunnel vision in the later missions.
      negative · Nov 29, 2022 · review 127539193
    • And this game has hands down the worst vehicle pathing I have ever seen, I will actually never complain about it in any other game anymore.
      negative · Apr 29, 2024 · review 163869871
    • … age due to being stunningly beautiful it is mercifuly saved by an excruciatingly idiotic experience of applied late-stage dementia level AI in the individual soldiers choices of action coupled with a game camera that is universaly remarked to be the dumbest decision ever undertaken ever of all …
      negative · Oct 30, 2024 · review 178059850
  • combat

    15 positive · 3 negative · 2 mixed · 0 neutral

    • I also think it is better than COH2, simply because the combat is smoother and more fun.
      positive · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117942073
    • But battle system is satisfying none the less.
      positive · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119835384
    • Mortars are insanely funny, when you got like 20 units and they nuke everything, well.
      positive · Jul 31, 2023 · review 143172531
  • replayability

    18 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • I have about 15k hours in this game (bought it on a disc back in like 2007 and now recently got it on Steam) and I still return to this game and it's still enjoyable and fun.
      positive · Jan 30, 2022 · review 109140690
    • Amazing retro RTS world war 2 game I always come back to.
      positive · Jan 31, 2022 · review 109161240
    • It has aged like fine wine and I can't ever get tired of it
      positive · Aug 30, 2022 · review 121462403
  • realism

    14 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • fantastic and realistic game play
      positive · Dec 31, 2022 · review 129780835
    • An excellent WWII Strategy game, with historic relevance.
      positive · Mar 31, 2024 · review 161885878
    • i like that it is very realisitic and has many hard challenging missions
      positive · May 31, 2024 · review 166404214
  • mods

    15 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • This game is timeless and with mods, its one of the best RTS out there imo.
      positive · Aug 31, 2022 · review 121508809
    • really good strategy game and lots of good game changing mods
      positive · Sep 30, 2023 · review 147390900
    • I like that I can play my mods with steam
      positive · Nov 30, 2023 · review 152594577
  • story

    11 positive · 1 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral

    • A good swath of humankind was affected by that devastating conflict, my forebears included, so playing CoH is a good thing especially the campaigns as it triggered my curiosity to learn about the various engagements, operations and battles that took place in that six-year period.
      positive · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117957226
    • Some amazing maps and locations, and playing D-day onwards in the Campaign is amazing.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133784547
    • The game has an excellent storyline, with engaging and well-developed characters that draw players into the WWII era.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133787015
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  • bugs

    0 positive · 12 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • I have no major complaints about the game, save for the once-in-a-blue-moon glitch when units sort of clip with/against the terrain.
      negative · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117957226
    • *Wehrmacht campaign is unbelievably good and tough(if you enjoy playing defence) albeit unfortunately a bit buggy, with the attacking forces having extreme tunnel vision in the later missions.
      negative · Nov 29, 2022 · review 127539193
    • [X] Minor bugs
      negative · Oct 31, 2023 · review 149266837
  • difficulty

    9 positive · 1 negative · 2 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Addicting, exciting and strategically challenging.
      positive · Nov 29, 2021 · review 104754213
    • [X] Easy to learn / Hard to master
      positive · Oct 31, 2023 · review 149266837
    • A truly unique RTS experience, if You ever want to know what it's like to play Imperial Guard against literally any enemy in Warhammer, play as American Infantry Doctrine against the Germans, the moment You take Your eye off the ball is the moment You lose it.
      positive · May 31, 2024 · review 166415560
  • quest design

    10 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • the standard missions are great and can be replayed over and over without getting boring and the skirmishes are brilliant.
      positive · Dec 31, 2022 · review 129775392
    • The campaigns are cool too.
      positive · Jul 30, 2023 · review 143078029
    • i like that it is very realisitic and has many hard challenging missions
      positive · May 31, 2024 · review 166404214
  • stability

    0 positive · 12 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • I spent money on this game, it doesn't work.
      negative · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119850066
    • Does not go past loading screen.
      negative · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133810314
    • Great game, however recent steam update seems to have caused issues for some windows versions suspect this may be a result of the push for win7 to be stopped.
      negative · May 31, 2023 · review 139311500
  • learning curve

    6 positive · 3 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Simple to learn, in game tutorials and guidance make it easy to continue growing.
      positive · May 31, 2022 · review 116309117
    • This is a really good game strategy, that slowly introduces new units at a nice pace.
      positive · Oct 31, 2024 · review 178117456
    • Best RTS ever, easy to play and if you don't like multiplayer well there is campaign for US, British and German forces and I found this game addicting as your imagination will set the limits
      positive · May 30, 2025 · review 195966645
  • sound design

    9 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral

    • The sound is fantastic, and every battle is very engaging.
      positive · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117942073
    • The sound effect superp
      positive · Oct 30, 2022 · review 124647372
    • The game's stunning visual effects and realistic sound effects add to the immersive experience, making the battles feel authentic and intense.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133787015
  • community

    4 positive · 5 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Get in multiplayer, every single person on this game community is a nazi, and they don't like new players or people with names they are unable to read.
      negative · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119796439
    • Up until then i though "eh, its ok i guess, but i wish there was more borderline Nazis in the player community IRL and a much more frustratingly stupid way to arrange my controls for the keyboard.
      negative · Oct 30, 2024 · review 178059850
    • … amazing, a bit one sided when it comes to game balancing but it is fun HOW EVER the game community itself is dreadful, full of over 20 year old kids who ruin the scope of the game itself with their immature character, its the same issue with coh2, coh is offically the CoD of rts games and its a …
      negative · Aug 31, 2018 · review 44497655
  • content amount

    8 positive · 1 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • *You kinda have to get this pack for the sole fact that you get 2 new factions with it alone.
      positive · Nov 29, 2022 · review 127539193
    • Endlessly playable and with tons of content.
      positive · Sep 30, 2023 · review 147371157
    • As I mentioned, the game's multiplayer is likely dead, but buying all the expansions you'll have plenty of missions, and the skirmish is surprisingly fun too, spent many hours just fighting AI.
      positive · Nov 30, 2024 · review 180942352
  • addictiveness

    8 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Addicting, exciting and strategically challenging.
      positive · Nov 29, 2021 · review 104754213
    • one of the best RTS games to date, cant ever get enough of playing this!
      positive · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119795650
    • Best RTS ever, easy to play and if you don't like multiplayer well there is campaign for US, British and German forces and I found this game addicting as your imagination will set the limits
      positive · May 30, 2025 · review 195966645
  • performance

    4 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 2 neutral

    • It also runs smoothly on weaker machines.
      positive · Jun 30, 2022 · review 117942073
    • The single best WW2 Strategy game out there, even better than it's sequel (Company of Heroes 2), amazing combat, cool graphics with not many requirements, fun and informative campaigns and a community that is still active to this day providing endless hours of fun.
      positive · Aug 29, 2018 · review 44449676
    • animation and performance are superb.
      positive · Mar 30, 2020 · review 66197676
  • controls

    1 positive · 6 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • it can be frustrating managing between micro managing your units while trying to manage an entire battlefield.
      negative · Jul 31, 2022 · review 119835384
    • Terrible default hotkeys, no reasonable way to change them. Took them an entire trilogy to figure out this is a problem.
      negative · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133818273
    • The controls are by modern standards archaic. If just throws enless waves of tanks at you.
      negative · Apr 29, 2024 · review 163869871
  • dlc

    5 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • The best way to play this game is with all the expansion content, I particularly like that we can play as Germans, Brits, etc.
      positive · Sep 30, 2023 · review 147371157
    • The DLCs are also amazing and you get to play as the British and Germans in their own campaigns with good length.
      positive · Jul 30, 2025 · review 201104167
    • This one and its DLC is a masterpiece.
      positive · Jun 29, 2026 · review 229134168
  • level design

    6 positive · 1 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Some amazing maps and locations, and playing D-day onwards in the Campaign is amazing.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133784547
    • The different classes of troops available in the game offer players the chance to customize their armies to suit their play style, and the variety of maps ensures that no two battles are ever the same.
      positive · Feb 28, 2023 · review 133787015
    • My favorite RTS, it has a lot of detail and the maps look like little dioramas.
      positive · Nov 30, 2024 · review 180996391
  • price value

    4 positive · 1 negative · 1 mixed · 1 neutral

    • This game has aged like a nice whiskey, except the price goes down over time instead of up.
      positive · Mar 31, 2023 · review 135813586
    • [X] Worth the price
      positive · Oct 31, 2023 · review 149266837
    • buy the franchise when it's on sale to get the best out of it.
      positive · Aug 31, 2018 · review 44487960
  • atmosphere

    6 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Even years after its release, it stands as a benchmark for what RTS games can and should be—a masterclass in design, atmosphere, and tactical depth.
      positive · Mar 29, 2026 · review 222018677
    • The atmosphere is also amazing.
      positive · Jun 30, 2026 · review 229232782
    • It's more 'WW2 combat fatigue simulator' than game, really.
      positive · Jan 30, 2018 · review 39720726
  • developer conduct

    1 positive · 5 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • ♥♥♥♥ this company.
      negative · Jan 30, 2026 · review 217205924
    • Too bad Relic has lost the way!
      negative · Jul 29, 2026 · review 231609167
    • They attracted a new community and completely forgot about the old one and if someone was speaking against the balance of the game they were getting banned immediatly on forums by the developers.
      negative · Nov 29, 2017 · review 37917340
  • platform access

    1 positive · 5 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral

    • Great game, however recent steam update seems to have caused issues for some windows versions suspect this may be a result of the push for win7 to be stopped.
      negative · May 31, 2023 · review 139311500
    • I have owned this game for a long time and randomly today recieved a notice that the EULA has been changed and that until I agree to no longer owning this game I cannot play it.
      negative · Jan 30, 2026 · review 217205924
    • That resulted in a very lazy cheap job which only made the online experience possible but it removed "Ranking" and Leaderboards and Team matches.
      negative · Nov 29, 2017 · review 37917340
  • game length

    2 positive · 1 negative · 0 mixed · 2 neutral

    • I finished the campaign in less than 40 hrs, the story was nice but the gameplay seems repetitive at times.
      neutral · Jul 31, 2023 · review 143154929
    • The main campaigns themselves only take around 10 hours to complete, however there is alot of replay value with Company of Heroes.
      neutral · Nov 29, 2017 · review 37940558
    • [X] Short
      negative · Oct 31, 2023 · review 149266837
  • progression

    2 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral

    • Unfortunately due to the move to Steam, the ranking system are broken ever since and no updates given have dealt with that issue yet.
      negative · Nov 28, 2018 · review 47164732
    • There's no real endgame or evolution in this game.
      negative · May 31, 2020 · review 70083028
    • [X] Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
      neutral · Oct 31, 2023 · review 149266837

Review timeline

monthly peak 418 reviews · all languages

review volume 200 400 0 positive review share 100% 50% 0% 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Oct 2017 · 59 reviews (53 up · 6 down) · 90% positive Nov 2017 · 234 reviews (228 up · 6 down) · 97% positive Dec 2017 · 102 reviews (94 up · 8 down) · 92% positive Jan 2018 · 105 reviews (93 up · 12 down) · 89% positive Feb 2018 · 79 reviews (70 up · 9 down) · 89% positive Mar 2018 · 60 reviews (52 up · 8 down) · 87% positive Apr 2018 · 51 reviews (39 up · 12 down) · 76% positive May 2018 · 62 reviews (59 up · 3 down) · 95% positive Jun 2018 · 74 reviews (66 up · 8 down) · 89% positive Jul 2018 · 84 reviews (66 up · 18 down) · 79% positive Aug 2018 · 61 reviews (53 up · 8 down) · 87% positive Sep 2018 · 42 reviews (38 up · 4 down) · 90% positive Oct 2018 · 39 reviews (30 up · 9 down) · 77% positive Nov 2018 · 118 reviews (109 up · 9 down) · 92% positive Dec 2018 · 53 reviews (43 up · 10 down) · 81% positive Jan 2019 · 49 reviews (42 up · 7 down) · 86% positive Feb 2019 · 48 reviews (40 up · 8 down) · 83% positive Mar 2019 · 86 reviews (72 up · 14 down) · 84% positive Apr 2019 · 44 reviews (36 up · 8 down) · 82% positive May 2019 · 42 reviews (40 up · 2 down) · 95% positive Jun 2019 · 118 reviews (114 up · 4 down) · 97% positive Jul 2019 · 172 reviews (163 up · 9 down) · 95% positive Aug 2019 · 43 reviews (36 up · 7 down) · 84% positive Sep 2019 · 44 reviews (34 up · 10 down) · 77% positive Oct 2019 · 67 reviews (57 up · 10 down) · 85% positive Nov 2019 · 418 reviews (399 up · 19 down) · 95% positive Dec 2019 · 323 reviews (316 up · 7 down) · 98% positive Jan 2020 · 223 reviews (218 up · 5 down) · 98% positive Feb 2020 · 206 reviews (189 up · 17 down) · 92% positive Mar 2020 · 242 reviews (237 up · 5 down) · 98% positive Apr 2020 · 276 reviews (267 up · 9 down) · 97% positive May 2020 · 192 reviews (183 up · 9 down) · 95% positive Jun 2020 · 171 reviews (165 up · 6 down) · 96% positive Jul 2020 · 244 reviews (237 up · 7 down) · 97% positive Aug 2020 · 149 reviews (144 up · 5 down) · 97% positive Sep 2020 · 140 reviews (132 up · 8 down) · 94% positive Oct 2020 · 236 reviews (222 up · 14 down) · 94% positive Nov 2020 · 198 reviews (189 up · 9 down) · 95% positive Dec 2020 · 212 reviews (205 up · 7 down) · 97% positive Jan 2021 · 220 reviews (215 up · 5 down) · 98% positive Feb 2021 · 198 reviews (188 up · 10 down) · 95% positive Mar 2021 · 144 reviews (139 up · 5 down) · 97% positive Apr 2021 · 147 reviews (137 up · 10 down) · 93% positive May 2021 · 174 reviews (163 up · 11 down) · 94% positive Jun 2021 · 192 reviews (184 up · 8 down) · 96% positive Jul 2021 · 212 reviews (201 up · 11 down) · 95% positive Aug 2021 · 146 reviews (142 up · 4 down) · 97% positive Sep 2021 · 158 reviews (147 up · 11 down) · 93% positive Oct 2021 · 160 reviews (148 up · 12 down) · 92% positive Nov 2021 · 146 reviews (144 up · 2 down) · 99% positive Dec 2021 · 163 reviews (158 up · 5 down) · 97% positive Jan 2022 · 188 reviews (179 up · 9 down) · 95% positive Feb 2022 · 133 reviews (126 up · 7 down) · 95% positive Mar 2022 · 111 reviews (101 up · 10 down) · 91% positive Apr 2022 · 104 reviews (98 up · 6 down) · 94% positive May 2022 · 90 reviews (87 up · 3 down) · 97% positive Jun 2022 · 133 reviews (126 up · 7 down) · 95% positive Jul 2022 · 151 reviews (140 up · 11 down) · 93% positive Aug 2022 · 95 reviews (89 up · 6 down) · 94% positive Sep 2022 · 79 reviews (73 up · 6 down) · 92% positive Oct 2022 · 121 reviews (117 up · 4 down) · 97% positive Nov 2022 · 117 reviews (109 up · 8 down) · 93% positive Dec 2022 · 106 reviews (100 up · 6 down) · 94% positive Jan 2023 · 174 reviews (169 up · 5 down) · 97% positive Feb 2023 · 127 reviews (120 up · 7 down) · 94% positive Mar 2023 · 105 reviews (101 up · 4 down) · 96% positive Apr 2023 · 84 reviews (80 up · 4 down) · 95% positive May 2023 · 64 reviews (61 up · 3 down) · 95% positive Jun 2023 · 93 reviews (91 up · 2 down) · 98% positive Jul 2023 · 118 reviews (111 up · 7 down) · 94% positive Aug 2023 · 95 reviews (91 up · 4 down) · 96% positive Sep 2023 · 108 reviews (97 up · 11 down) · 90% positive Oct 2023 · 90 reviews (83 up · 7 down) · 92% positive Nov 2023 · 115 reviews (109 up · 6 down) · 95% positive Dec 2023 · 94 reviews (90 up · 4 down) · 96% positive Jan 2024 · 91 reviews (84 up · 7 down) · 92% positive Feb 2024 · 89 reviews (86 up · 3 down) · 97% positive Mar 2024 · 102 reviews (98 up · 4 down) · 96% positive Apr 2024 · 77 reviews (73 up · 4 down) · 95% positive May 2024 · 113 reviews (105 up · 8 down) · 93% positive Jun 2024 · 75 reviews (74 up · 1 down) · 99% positive Jul 2024 · 104 reviews (97 up · 7 down) · 93% positive Aug 2024 · 87 reviews (82 up · 5 down) · 94% positive Sep 2024 · 103 reviews (97 up · 6 down) · 94% positive Oct 2024 · 67 reviews (64 up · 3 down) · 96% positive Nov 2024 · 89 reviews (83 up · 6 down) · 93% positive Dec 2024 · 111 reviews (99 up · 12 down) · 89% positive Jan 2025 · 122 reviews (117 up · 5 down) · 96% positive Feb 2025 · 103 reviews (97 up · 6 down) · 94% positive Mar 2025 · 138 reviews (128 up · 10 down) · 93% positive Apr 2025 · 101 reviews (94 up · 7 down) · 93% positive May 2025 · 127 reviews (119 up · 8 down) · 94% positive Jun 2025 · 92 reviews (88 up · 4 down) · 96% positive Jul 2025 · 126 reviews (116 up · 10 down) · 92% positive Aug 2025 · 98 reviews (88 up · 10 down) · 90% positive Sep 2025 · 92 reviews (87 up · 5 down) · 95% positive Oct 2025 · 87 reviews (80 up · 7 down) · 92% positive Nov 2025 · 104 reviews (97 up · 7 down) · 93% positive Dec 2025 · 104 reviews (90 up · 14 down) · 87% positive Jan 2026 · 133 reviews (121 up · 12 down) · 91% positive Feb 2026 · 81 reviews (78 up · 3 down) · 96% positive Mar 2026 · 101 reviews (92 up · 9 down) · 91% positive Apr 2026 · 107 reviews (93 up · 14 down) · 87% positive May 2026 · 106 reviews (98 up · 8 down) · 92% positive Jun 2026 · 104 reviews (96 up · 8 down) · 92% positive Jul 2026 · 100 reviews (87 up · 13 down) · 87% positive Aug 2026 · 97 reviews (86 up · 11 down) · 89% positive Sep 2026 · 94 reviews (85 up · 9 down) · 90% positive Oct 2026 · 2 reviews (2 up · 0 down) · 100% positive · small sample

monthly share rated positive · 50% reference · months with <5 reviews faded

the timeline as a table
Reviews per month, all languages; months with no reviews are left out.
month reviews up down positive note
Oct 2017 59 53 6 90%
Nov 2017 234 228 6 97%
Dec 2017 102 94 8 92%
Jan 2018 105 93 12 89%
Feb 2018 79 70 9 89%
Mar 2018 60 52 8 87%
Apr 2018 51 39 12 76%
May 2018 62 59 3 95%
Jun 2018 74 66 8 89%
Jul 2018 84 66 18 79%
Aug 2018 61 53 8 87%
Sep 2018 42 38 4 90%
Oct 2018 39 30 9 77%
Nov 2018 118 109 9 92%
Dec 2018 53 43 10 81%
Jan 2019 49 42 7 86%
Feb 2019 48 40 8 83%
Mar 2019 86 72 14 84%
Apr 2019 44 36 8 82%
May 2019 42 40 2 95%
Jun 2019 118 114 4 97%
Jul 2019 172 163 9 95%
Aug 2019 43 36 7 84%
Sep 2019 44 34 10 77%
Oct 2019 67 57 10 85%
Nov 2019 418 399 19 95%
Dec 2019 323 316 7 98%
Jan 2020 223 218 5 98%
Feb 2020 206 189 17 92%
Mar 2020 242 237 5 98%
Apr 2020 276 267 9 97%
May 2020 192 183 9 95%
Jun 2020 171 165 6 96%
Jul 2020 244 237 7 97%
Aug 2020 149 144 5 97%
Sep 2020 140 132 8 94%
Oct 2020 236 222 14 94%
Nov 2020 198 189 9 95%
Dec 2020 212 205 7 97%
Jan 2021 220 215 5 98%
Feb 2021 198 188 10 95%
Mar 2021 144 139 5 97%
Apr 2021 147 137 10 93%
May 2021 174 163 11 94%
Jun 2021 192 184 8 96%
Jul 2021 212 201 11 95%
Aug 2021 146 142 4 97%
Sep 2021 158 147 11 93%
Oct 2021 160 148 12 92%
Nov 2021 146 144 2 99%
Dec 2021 163 158 5 97%
Jan 2022 188 179 9 95%
Feb 2022 133 126 7 95%
Mar 2022 111 101 10 91%
Apr 2022 104 98 6 94%
May 2022 90 87 3 97%
Jun 2022 133 126 7 95%
Jul 2022 151 140 11 93%
Aug 2022 95 89 6 94%
Sep 2022 79 73 6 92%
Oct 2022 121 117 4 97%
Nov 2022 117 109 8 93%
Dec 2022 106 100 6 94%
Jan 2023 174 169 5 97%
Feb 2023 127 120 7 94%
Mar 2023 105 101 4 96%
Apr 2023 84 80 4 95%
May 2023 64 61 3 95%
Jun 2023 93 91 2 98%
Jul 2023 118 111 7 94%
Aug 2023 95 91 4 96%
Sep 2023 108 97 11 90%
Oct 2023 90 83 7 92%
Nov 2023 115 109 6 95%
Dec 2023 94 90 4 96%
Jan 2024 91 84 7 92%
Feb 2024 89 86 3 97%
Mar 2024 102 98 4 96%
Apr 2024 77 73 4 95%
May 2024 113 105 8 93%
Jun 2024 75 74 1 99%
Jul 2024 104 97 7 93%
Aug 2024 87 82 5 94%
Sep 2024 103 97 6 94%
Oct 2024 67 64 3 96%
Nov 2024 89 83 6 93%
Dec 2024 111 99 12 89%
Jan 2025 122 117 5 96%
Feb 2025 103 97 6 94%
Mar 2025 138 128 10 93%
Apr 2025 101 94 7 93%
May 2025 127 119 8 94%
Jun 2025 92 88 4 96%
Jul 2025 126 116 10 92%
Aug 2025 98 88 10 90%
Sep 2025 92 87 5 95%
Oct 2025 87 80 7 92%
Nov 2025 104 97 7 93%
Dec 2025 104 90 14 87%
Jan 2026 133 121 12 91%
Feb 2026 81 78 3 96%
Mar 2026 101 92 9 91%
Apr 2026 107 93 14 87%
May 2026 106 98 8 92%
Jun 2026 104 96 8 92%
Jul 2026 100 87 13 87%
Aug 2026 97 86 11 89%
Sep 2026 94 85 9 90%
Oct 2026 2 2 0 100% small sample

How this report was made
Population
all Steam reviews of the game (every language, purchase type, and verdict), walked newest-first per window; only English-language reviews are analyzed
Sample
409 English reviews, time-proportional draw over 108 windows (newest-first within each), taken from an all-language walk and kept English-only — where English is a minority the sample runs smaller than the draw, and every margin of error is computed at 409
Aspect yield
166 of 409 analyzed reviews carry at least one aspect (40.6%); every share on this page divides by all 409
Interval regime
calm: standard margins of error for a share of a sample (Wilson interval), no widening needed
Fetch paths
108 time windows fetched directly (windowed)
Language mix
1,000 fetched: english 411 · schinese 115 · russian 71 · 25 more
Steam-marked windows
none flagged by Steam (Valve's off-topic flagging began March 2019)
Marked share
0.0% of sample inside marked windows, under the 2% floor
Narrative
passed the grounding gate first try
Evidence floor
aspects and emergent themes appear only with 5+ supporting reviews; smaller counts sit at the classifier's false-positive floor
Instrument readings
measured once on the study corpus for this model and prompt: frozen calibration, not properties of this run
· aspect tagging vs. human labels
0.801 [0.752–0.844] (F1 against a human-labeled test set; 1.0 is best)
· quotes filed under the wrong aspect
11.6% [6.6–19.6] of quotes, measured by hand on a sample; lower is better — measured on the prior model (2026-08-05); re-measurement pending
· independent model vs. production labels
0.791 [0.772–0.810] (F1 of the production labeler against an independent judge model) — measured on the prior model (2026-07-25); re-measurement pending
Versions
deepseek-flash · prompt classify-v1 · ontology v2
Run
serve-20261001T120614Z-1fc0ff12 · code 798e06c

full methodology in the milestone write-ups