Limbus Company Japanese Steam reviews: 89.8% positive, with gameplay and story dominating feedback
The sample covers 1,579 Japanese-language reviews for Limbus Company on Steam. The period runs from 27 February 2023 to 4 October 2026.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 1,579 Steam reviews written in Japanese, collected between 2023-02-27 and 2026-10-04.
Overall recommendation rate
Players writing reviews in Japanese recommended the game at a rate of 89.8%. The collection covers 1,579 reviews. Steam reports an identical 89.8% positive score across its own total of 1,579 reviews. Both figures were recorded on 5 October 2026. The confidence interval for the collected sample ranges from 88.2% to 91.2%. Nearly every entry sorts into a specific discussion topic. The total reaches 1,579 classified entries, matching the full collection size.
The numbers
What reviewers praise
Story, scenario, writing appears in 44.9% of recommending reviews. Players frequently discuss the dense narrative and literary references. Gameplay, combat, core mechanics is mentioned in 39.4% of positive reviews. Reviewers note the unique dice matching system and the steep learning curve. Characters, character design is discussed by 15.7% of recommenders. Amount of content, length, replayability appears in 13.4% of positive reviews. Price, value for money, DLC pricing is noted by 12.7% of recommenders. Difficulty, balance appears in 7.9% of positive reviews. Music, sound, voice acting is mentioned in 6.0% of recommending reviews. Graphics, art direction is discussed by 4.4% of recommenders. Performance, optimization, bugs, crashes appears in 3.9% of positive reviews. Monetization, gacha, microtransactions is mentioned in 1.9% of recommenders. Japanese localization and translation quality appears in 1.4% of positive reviews. Developer or publisher conduct, update policy appears in 1.2% of positive reviews. UI, controls, key bindings, controller support is noted by 1.1% of recommenders. Online play, multiplayer, servers appears in 0.7% of positive reviews. PC port quality, Steam Deck is mentioned in just 0.1% of recommending reviews.
とにかくストーリーが本当に良い。4章以降が特に素晴らしい。
The story is genuinely excellent. Chapter four and beyond are particularly wonderful.
What reviewers criticise
Gameplay, combat, core mechanics dominates negative reviews at 61.5%. Story, scenario, writing appears in 32.3% of non-recommending reviews. Amount of content, length, replayability is mentioned in 27.3% of negative reviews. Difficulty, balance appears in 28.0% of negative reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, crashes is discussed in 17.4% of negative reviews. Price, value for money, DLC pricing is mentioned in 8.1% of negative reviews. Characters, character design appears in 7.5% of negative reviews. Developer or publisher conduct, update policy appears in 5.6% of negative reviews. Japanese localization and translation quality appears in 5.0% of negative reviews. UI, controls, key bindings, controller support is noted in 5.0% of negative reviews. Online play, multiplayer, servers appears in 3.7% of negative reviews. Graphics, art direction is noted in 2.5% of negative reviews. Music, sound, voice acting appears in 0.6% of negative reviews. Monetization, gacha, microtransactions is mentioned in 0.6% of negative reviews. PC port quality, Steam Deck is mentioned in 0.0% of negative reviews.
Who wrote these reviews
The median play time behind these reviews is 179.4 hours. Players writing reviews in Japanese generally invest significant time into the main story and the mirror dungeons. Recommending reviews focus heavily on narrative depth and combat mechanics. Non-recommending reviews concentrate on difficulty spikes and grinding requirements. The gap between positive and negative feedback centers on how players view the core loop. Recommenders accept the steep learning curve as part of the experience. Critics find the dice matching system too random during high difficulty encounters. Both groups acknowledge the strong art direction and musical score. This collection of 1,579 reviews captures this engagement pattern across the entire Japanese dataset.
プロムンシリーズを追っかけているプレイヤーは是非ともやった方が良い。
Players who follow the Project Moon series should definitely play this game.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews, retrieved with Steam's public review listing between 2023-02-27 and 2026-10-04: 1,579 written in Japanese. Steam's own all-time totals for Limbus Company were read on 2026-10-05.
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
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. Steam's default filter for off-topic review activity was left on, so periods Steam marked as review bombing are excluded from the counts in this article. Reviews that arrived after the retrieval date are not included.
Links
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