Steam has unveiled the gaming genre with the highest score based by user reviews

With the state of Steam's lean policy of accepting all types of games, they recently wanted to boost the morale of their users by selecting all genres on Steam, check each individual game by their review score, and compile all of them to see what genre has the games with the most positive review scores.

Niche genre are not counted, as two or three games total in a genre are too few to participate. The criteria has to be a moderately popular genre and the review score has to contain a certain number of reviewers for the game to count.

So, who is the winner? 

The FPS genre? It has its high and lows in the industry, definitely not a top contender for highest reviewed genre. Since it's one of the most popular genres of all time, it's bound to be filled with a dose of mediocre shooters.

Maybe the Battle Royale genre? The rising genre of Battle Royale had a rough bump of unfinished buggy games, thus resulting in not so popular reviews. Only recently we saw battle royale games having a bump in quality, however many of them are not qualified as they aren't even on steam.

 

Steam is proud to announce the genre with the most number of high quality games based on user reviews! Which is:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hentai Games !

That is correct, Hentai Games are the leading genre of the highest quality product for Steam to house. Gabe Newel said this in an interview:

I am happy that hentai is the 1# type of genre that has the highest quality games based on user reviews, i like my hentai games, they are good, they are sometimes bad, but most times good. 

This means that if you ever want to find games with the most overwhelmingly positive scores, then Hentai games are your main place to start !

People all around steam have been widely accepting of this outcome, with no protest, no flame wars and seemingly no reports of users giving hentai games high scores because they are joking. Everyone on steam lives on harmony with the idea that Hentai games is a leading genre in the Gaming Industry for high quality products.

 

 

DISCLAIMER: This is an educated opinion of someone who has been relatively informed about today's journalism, but do not think of it as fact. It was made from varying opinions and sources other than myself.

Article written by: Myself (Caecus est inamabilis sciurus)

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This is something funny, because many conservative gamers have problems with hentai games. I actually don't agree when you say that "everyone on Steam is in harmony with hentai games being the ones with highest scores", that's not true, I've seen lots of complaints and people critisizing Steam for letting those games in.

Not me, I even have some h-games, but I don't think it's possible to say everyone's on the same page about those games being added to Steam.

I believe they all have good scores because most of all the only people who play them are also the people who are looking for that kind of content. Rarely someone ends on a h-game by "accident". The only case is when one receives one of those games as a gift from a friend, but this person doesn't have a reason to neg-review the game.

Those things said, I don't believe their popularity is comparable to that of battle royale games or FPS. For example, the game with the highest number of reviews (13.000) on your screenshots, Nekopara vol 1., doesn't even compare to PUBG which has close to a million reviews on Steam. CS:Go also has more than 500.000 reviews on Steam. These genres may not be so positively-rated overall, but they are indeed much more popular than h-games on Steam. Even some B-grade battle royales on Steam have more than 200.000 reviews, so these games have a much bigger playerbase.

H-games are niche at best, at least for now. I believe one game has to be on Top 100 Played Games on Steam to be considered popular (you can look them up at Steam -> Store -> Statistics). Popular games right now are Sekiro, GTA V, CS: GO, Dota 2, PUBG, and so on. I don't see any h-game on that list as for the moment of this post. Even some old games like Age of Empires II are on the top 100.

I think the most accurate thing you may say in this context is that h-games are overall very positively rated by its players, but they aren't popular yet, not the top 100 popular at least.

Someone may argue "some h-games players conceal their library using privacy settings so that users don't see they play this kind of games". This is true, and not having much data about something is a good enough reason to say we can't compare that to other things. For this reason we can't say it's a popular genre. We don't know. Not at a statistics level at least.

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Planetary

I've been playing video games ever since Pong... Damn. I'm that old?

While I'm certainly no prude and not the morality police, I find this move of Steam's more than a little uncomfortable.

Steam has been many a parent's (and grandparent's) go-to for PC gaming and while there may be "content filters" in the Steam client... they are not foolproof. Even I've stumbled upon several games with adult content that were not blocked by the filters and were regularly featured in "featured & recommended" and in "your discovery queue". Manually ignoring each and every objectionable title seems to be the only way to fix that. And now, Steam makes this choice...

Considering how book stores (and variety stores) must by law keep adult content tucked away behind an opaque barrier well out of reach of children, it would be far better for Valve if they created a separate store (Think: "Steam Red Light") and unique client than go this route as I could see a very significant (and ugly) push-back from parents and politicians alike.

Not smart.


Oh no! Now if you put it that way, Steam has definitely done some errors of judgement upon creating the criteria for these games. Definitely not one of the smartest ideas Steam has done !

Thanks for the in-depth responses, very good.

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