Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"

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Palworld is already enjoying the benefits of Steam's new, default, language-based scoring, shimmying up to an Overwhelmingly Positive rating in English.

"Due to the Steam review change (it now shows the overall score in your language), Palworld is Overwhelmingly Positive!" says developer Pocketpair's publishing manager John "Bucky" Buckley in an August 20 Twitter post. "Thank you so much to our overseas fans who continue to support us and enjoy the game! As always, we're so incredibly grateful for your continued support!"

I've suspected that recent events like Chinese players, in particular, airing their frustrations with Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and lowering its overall Steam rating might have contributed to Valve's decision to alter user reviews for qualifying games – but Steam doesn't discuss review bombs at all in its news post.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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