Steam user scores boost a game’s store placement – mixed is 500% better than negative

The folks behind Steam suddenly have yet another weird consideration to make around the store’s recommendation algorithm: positive review bombs. In April, Ubisoft gave away Assassin’s Creed Unity for a week in the wake of the Notre-Dame fire, and the game consequently received a rash of positive reviews, many of which had little to do with Unity itself. Valve has decided against dropping Unity’s positive review score, in part because it wouldn’t affect the game’s visibility much - but the blog post also gives us a rare bit of insight into how the store’s algorithm works. “Games receive a ‘boost’ based upon which user review bucket they're in (Mixed, Mostly Positive, etc). The actual boost amount is quite small relative to other factors in the Store, and it's essentially the same for all the Mixed or above review buckets.” But, Valve says, “there's a big boost drop-off as soon as a game drops below Mixed into the negative buckets, which occurs at the point where less than 40% of the user reviews are positive. A Mixed game receives over 500% more boost than a game in Mostly Negative.” 71.7% of games on Steam are rated at least ‘mixed.’

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