Japanese Steam reviews, Sep 20-26, 2026: Onimusha leads with 94.0% positive
Players writing reviews in Japanese counted 599 reviews about 26 games this week. Onimusha: Way of the Sword topped the ranking with a 94.0% positive share.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 599 Steam reviews written in Japanese about 26 games, posted Sep 20-26, 2026.
The week in numbers
Players writing reviews in Japanese counted 599 reviews about 26 games between Sep 20-26, 2026. The site tracks fifty games in total, but only twenty-six received enough feedback to appear in this period. WARDOGS drew the most attention with 189 reviews. Onimusha: Way of the Sword followed with 151 reviews. Aniimo gathered 61 reviews, while Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- and Dimraeth received 31 and 22 reviews respectively. These five titles accounted for the majority of the feedback collected during the seven day window. The ranking uses the lower end of the 95% confidence interval to order titles, so a game with fewer reviews cannot lead by chance.
The ranking
| # | Game | Reviews | Recommend | 95% interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onimusha: Way of the Sword | 151 | 94.0% | 89.1–96.8% |
| 2 | Dimraeth | 22 | 81.8% | 61.5–92.7% |
| 3 | Aniimo | 61 | 60.7% | 48.1–71.9% |
| 4 | WARDOGS | 189 | 47.6% | 40.6–54.7% |
| 5 | Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- | 31 | 41.9% | 26.4–59.2% |
The numbers
The best received
Onimusha: Way of the Sword placed first with a 94.0% positive rating across 151 reviews. Players writing reviews in Japanese frequently praised the gameplay and combat, which appeared in 76.8% of recommending reviews.
鬼殺後半のキツさにヒィヒィ言いながら駆け抜けました。
I panted through the tough second half of the Ghost Kill.
Characters and character design were mentioned in 27.5% of positive feedback. Story, scenario, and writing appeared in 21.8% of recommending reviews. Dimraeth ranked second with 81.8% positive across 22 reviews. Reviewers highlighted gameplay and combat in 66.7% of recommending reviews.
1周目クリア。とにかくボス戦が異様に楽しかった。
First playthrough clear. The boss fights were incredibly fun.
Amount of content, length, and replayability were discussed in 50.0% of positive reviews. Difficulty and balance appeared in 22.2% of recommending reviews. Aniimo took the third spot with 60.7% positive across 61 reviews. Gameplay and combat were mentioned in 43.2% of recommending reviews.
アーリーアクセス分のラスボスクリア。
Cleared the late boss from the early access portion.
Amount of content, length, and replayability appeared in 29.7% of positive reviews. Graphics and art direction were noted in 21.6% of recommending reviews.
The least well received
WARDOGS had the lowest positive share among ranked games at 47.6% across 189 reviews. Gameplay and combat appeared in 79.8% of not-recommending reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes were mentioned in 50.5% of negative feedback. Difficulty and balance appeared in 33.3% of not-recommending reviews. Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- followed with 41.9% positive across 31 reviews. Gameplay and combat appeared in 83.3% of not-recommending reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes were mentioned in 50.0% of negative feedback. Amount of content, length, and replayability appeared in 22.2% of not-recommending reviews. Aniimo rounded out the lowest rated list with 60.7% positive across 61 reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes appeared in 54.2% of not-recommending reviews. Gameplay and combat were mentioned in 33.3% of negative feedback. Graphics and art direction appeared in 25.0% of not-recommending reviews.
What else happened this week
No new releases appeared on the tracked list during this period. Aniimo saw the largest shift in sentiment, moving up 18.5 percentage points from 42.2% to 60.7% positive. The change reached statistical significance with a p value of 0.028. WARDOGS experienced the largest decline, dropping 12.9 percentage points from 60.5% to 47.6% positive. That shift carried a p value of less than 0.01. The timing of these changes coincides with the week of Sep 20-26, 2026.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews written in Japanese, posted Sep 20-26, 2026, retrieved with Steam's public review listing for the 50 games this site follows: 599 reviews about 26 games. The site follows games that appear in the Japanese Steam store's best-seller, new-release and featured lists or among the most played games on Steam, once they have at least 30 reviews in Japanese.
How the reviews were classified
Every review was read by a language model, which rated how positive it is, how much concrete detail it gives, and which of 15 fixed topics it talks about. The counts and percentages in this article were then computed from those labels in ordinary code, not by the model. Automatic classification makes mistakes, so single percentages should be read as approximate. Reviews of fewer than 15 characters were not sent to the model; they count as positive or negative from the reviewer's own recommendation and carry no topic.
Limits
Only games with at least 20 reviews in the period are ranked. They are ordered by the lower end of the 95% confidence interval of the share that recommends the game, so a game with few reviews cannot lead on chance. People who write a Steam review in Japanese are not a representative sample of everyone who plays in Japan, and the language of a review does not establish where its author lives. Games this site does not follow are not included.
Links
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword on Steam
- Dimraeth on Steam
- Aniimo on Steam
- WARDOGS on Steam
- Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- on Steam
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