Japanese-language Steam reviews, Oct 25-31, 2026: Big Walk leads with 100.0% positive
797 Japanese-language Steam reviews about 123 games were counted for Oct 25-31, 2026. Big Walk came out on top in the ranking.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 797 Steam reviews written in Japanese about 123 games, posted Oct 25-31, 2026.
The week in numbers
797 Japanese-language Steam reviews about 123 games were counted for Oct 25-31, 2026. The sample comes from players writing reviews in Japanese. The site follows 160 games. The period covers seven days. The games with the most reviews were ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE with 67 reviews, Call of Duty® with 53, WARDOGS with 44, Apex Legends™ with 24, and Big Walk with 23. These counts set the sample for the weekly ranking.
The ranking
| # | Game | Reviews | Recommend | 95% interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Walk | 23 | 100.0% | 85.7–100.0% |
| 2 | ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE | 67 | 88.1% | 78.2–93.8% |
| 3 | Legend of Mortal | 20 | 90.0% | 69.9–97.2% |
| 4 | Cyberpunk 2077 | 22 | 81.8% | 61.5–92.7% |
| 5 | WARDOGS | 44 | 29.5% | 18.2–44.2% |
| 6 | Apex Legends™ | 24 | 33.3% | 18.0–53.3% |
| 7 | Call of Duty® | 53 | 22.6% | 13.5–35.5% |
| 8 | Overwatch® | 21 | 23.8% | 10.6–45.1% |
The numbers
The best received
The ranking covers games with at least 20 Japanese-language reviews. It is ordered by the lower end of the 95% confidence interval, not by the positive share alone, so a game with few reviews cannot lead on luck. Big Walk is first with 23 reviews and 100.0% positive. Its recommending reviews mention gameplay and core mechanics 34.8% of the time, story 8.7%, and graphics and art direction 8.7%.
友達と一緒に散歩するような感覚で、会話を楽しみながらパズルを解いていくゲーム。
A game where you solve puzzles while enjoying conversation, with the feeling of taking a walk with friends.
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE is second with 67 reviews and 88.1% positive. Recommending reviews mention gameplay and core mechanics 57.6%, story 47.5%, and music and sound 23.7%.
キャンペーン目的なら十分おすすめできる ただしオンラインは別
If you play for the campaign, it is well worth recommending; online is a different matter.
Legend of Mortal is third with 20 reviews and 90.0% positive. Recommending reviews mention story 50.0%, gameplay and core mechanics 27.8%, and characters and character design 22.2%. Cyberpunk 2077 is fourth with 22 reviews and 81.8% positive. Recommending reviews mention story 27.8%, gameplay and core mechanics 27.8%, and performance and optimization 11.1%. The median playtime for Big Walk reviews is 12.2 hours, and for ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE it is 33.4 hours. Legend of Mortal reviews show 53.6 hours, while Cyberpunk 2077 reviews show 82.5 hours.
The least well received
Call of Duty® has the lowest positive share among the ranked games, with 53 reviews and 22.6% positive. Not-recommending reviews mention gameplay and core mechanics 65.9%, online play and multiplayer 31.7%, and performance and optimization 31.7%. WARDOGS has 44 reviews and 29.5% positive. Its critical reviews mention online play and multiplayer 51.6%, gameplay and core mechanics 38.7%, and difficulty and balance 29.0%. Overwatch® has 21 reviews and 23.8% positive. Its not-recommending reviews mention gameplay and core mechanics 62.5%, online play and multiplayer 37.5%, and performance and optimization 12.5%. Apex Legends™ also sits low with 24 reviews and 33.3% positive. Overwatch® has the lowest lower bound in the ranking, 10.6%. Median playtime is 48.5 hours for Call of Duty®, 92.4 hours for WARDOGS, and 262.0 hours for Overwatch®.
What else happened this week
SULFUR is the new release in the period. It had 2 reviews with 100.0% positive. The biggest changes compare this week with the previous week. The positive share for Call of Duty® fell 25.9 percentage points, from 48.5% positive on 33 reviews to 22.6% positive on 53 reviews, with p = 0.013. The positive share for WARDOGS rose 14.7 percentage points, from 14.8% positive on 176 reviews to 29.5% positive on 44 reviews, with p = 0.022. These figures describe counted review shares in the two periods.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews written in Japanese, posted Oct 25-31, 2026, retrieved with Steam's public review listing for the 160 games this site follows: 797 reviews about 123 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
- Big Walk on Steam
- ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE on Steam
- Legend of Mortal on Steam
- Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam
- WARDOGS on Steam
- Apex Legends™ on Steam
- Call of Duty® on Steam
- Overwatch® on Steam
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