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Earth Defense Force 6 review bomb

The PC launch in July 2024 required an Epic Games account that the store page had not mentioned. The rating fell to Mostly Negative within a day on about 1,300 reviews, nearly all about the account and not the game. Read as OneStar reads it, the July 25, 2024 wave was a review bomb: a wave about one event, not the build. The counts below are Steam's own.

The wave, counted

Earth Defense Force 6 against its own median

The card shows the week or month that held the event as Steam counts it, against the game's median week or month, and whether it clears the rule OneStar uses: at least 20 reviews and more than 5 times the median.

Earth Defense Force 6

Review bomb

The PC launch in July 2024 required an Epic Games account that the store page had not mentioned. The rating fell to Mostly Negative within a day on about 1,300 reviews, nearly all about the account and not the game.

3,434reviews in July 2024, against a median month of 54
48%thumbs down that month
64xthe median month: flagged by the 5x rule

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6: 7,317 reviews in all, 30% thumbs down, Mostly Positive on Steam, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.

Sources: PC Gamer, July 2024

How to read it

Three questions, in order

  1. How far above the median was it? A real wave is several times the usual volume, not a loud day. The ratio on the card is that number.
  2. What did the reviews name? An account, a credit or a price in another region is about something outside the game. Crashes, a nerf or a missing mode are about the build. A OneStar report answers this for the reviews it reads in the window, with the reviews behind each share.
  3. Did the thumbs down come back down? A bomb ends with its cause. A problem ends with the patch. The next week or month on Steam's history tells you which happened.

The method and the other six cases are on How to tell a review bomb from a real problem. For a patch instead of a wave, see What a patch did to your reviews.

Cite this page: link https://onestar.sh/guides/review-bombs/earth-defense-force-6 and name OneStar and the date you read it. The counts are Steam's own review totals per week or month. Shares in OneStar reports are of all judged reviewers unless the report says otherwise.

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FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

Run the same read on any game with the Steam review analyzer.

Why was Earth Defense Force 6 review bombed?

Its Steam release in July 2024 asked for an Epic Games account that was not disclosed before launch. The thumbs down named the account, not the game, which is the mark of a review bomb rather than a problem with the build.

What should a studio do in that case?

Answer the one thing the reviews name. A wave with one cause ends when the cause does; a wave about bugs, performance or balance ends when the patch lands. The history on this page shows which kind this was.

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