Steam reviews carry no version, so a patch is read through time: the share of each complaint in the weeks before it against the weeks after, and whether the thumbs down fall. The first week shows what the patch broke; the fourth shows whether it fixed what it meant to. Five games below, with Steam's own counts before and after.
Steam's overall score counts every review the game ever received, so a bad first month is paid for over years. Cyberpunk 2077 needed about 540,000 reviews to reach Very Positive in mid 2023, two and a half years after launch. No Man's Sky took eight years, with recent reviews at 94 percent positive while old ones held the overall score down. The recent score moves in weeks; the overall one moves in years. That is the case for reading the reviews in the first week after a patch, not the score.
Each card shows the week or month before the patch and the one holding it: reviews and the share of thumbs down, from Steam's own review history. Steam buckets older games by month, so a patch reads as the month around it. Where a OneStar report exists it reads the words in both periods.
Recent reviews sank through 2025 as PC performance problems stayed unfixed, until a large PC patch on January 27, 2026. The OneStar report compares complaints before and after it.
Monster Hunter Wilds: 334,874 reviews in all, 50% thumbs down, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.
The free 2.0 update landed on September 21, 2023, five days before the Phantom Liberty expansion, and put the game back at the top of Steam's sellers. The base game had already climbed to Very Positive in mid 2023 after about 540,000 reviews.
Cyberpunk 2077: 1,001,816 reviews in all, 13% thumbs down, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.
The 2016 launch fell to Mostly Negative. Free updates moved the overall score to Mostly Positive in September 2021 and to Very Positive in November 2024, when 80 percent of more than 245,000 reviews recommended the game and recent reviews ran at 94 percent positive.
No Man's Sky: 424,722 reviews in all, 15% thumbs down, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.
Sources: heise, November 2024, Wccftech, November 2024
The Seekers of the Storm expansion shipped with bugs tied to frame rate, so abilities and enemies behaved differently at different frame rates, and the expansion sat at Mostly Negative with 34 percent positive. A patch fixed more than forty issues named in the reviews. Hallowed Concepts, the next expansion, arrived on October 8, 2026 and opened Very Positive.
Risk of Rain 2: 356,676 reviews in all, 6% thumbs down, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.
Sources: PCGamesN, September 2024, TechStory, August 2024, games.gg on Hallowed Concepts, October 2026
Larian called Patch 8 the last big update. The OneStar report asks whether late players still find the game polished, and reads the complaints about broken mods, Act 3 performance and crashes after it.
Baldur's Gate 3: 864,368 reviews in all, 3% thumbs down, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.
Sources: OneStar report, Baldur's Gate 3
Cite this page: link https://onestar.sh/guides/steam-patch-reviews and name OneStar and the date you read it. The counts are Steam's own review totals per week or month, before and after each patch. Shares in OneStar reports are of all judged reviewers unless the report says otherwise.
The Steam review analyzer reads any game's reviews from the patch date forward, and a tracked game refreshes daily, weekly or monthly so the after keeps filling in.
Steam does not record which build a reviewer played, unlike the App Store and Google Play. So a patch is read through time: the weekly trend of complaint shares, spikes in a theme, and a report whose window starts on the patch date.
Read them twice. The first week tells you whether the patch broke something new, since those reviews arrive fast. Two to four weeks later tells you whether the complaint you patched is still being written, which is the question that matters.
Yes, and slowly. The overall score counts every review ever written, so No Man's Sky needed eight years of free updates to reach Very Positive even with recent reviews at 94 percent positive. The recent score moves in weeks; the overall one moves in years.
The words. For each review OneStar reads in the window, Jev answers whether it names a complaint, which category it falls in, whether the reviewer says they refunded or quit, and what they ask for. Code counts the shares by week, so the before and after of a patch is a number with the reviews behind it.
Six steps, a spreadsheet version and a worked example on a live report.
What App Store Connect and Play Console measure, why they say not enough data, and where reviews fit.
Five checks in order, the store rules for asking for ratings, and live rating drops.
Five steps, weak spots against category gaps, and a worked example on three note apps.
A template per complaint under Google's 350 character cap, the store rules, and live reply rates.
The bands behind each label, which reviews count, language scores, and what live games need to move.
Three tells, the rule OneStar uses, and seven games with Steam's own counts.
Start a report on the patch date and OneStar reads a sample of the reviews since, by complaint, praise and who says they left. Run a report free: 3 report runs a month of up to 500 reviews each and 1,500 reviews a month in all. No card needed.