Genuinely great400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-12
Summary
Persona 4 Golden holds an official Steam rating of 97.1%. After weighting 400 positive and 400 negative reviews by trust, the adjusted rating is 96.9% (95% range 96.8–97.0%), essentially the same as the official figure. Verdict: "Genuinely great" (the adjusted rating is 70% or higher and the positive reviews carry high average trust).
Average trust is 0.77 for positive and 0.80 for negative reviews, but the gap is too small to move the official rating much. The most common discount factor is very short reviews, at 35% of all reviews.
Across 77 months of history, no month shows a concentrated wave of negative reviews. There is no sign of coordinated review activity.
The last 180 days show 97.1% (last 30 days: 96.3%), close to the all-time figure.
Japanese-language reviews alone show 91.8% (1,381 reviews, 95% range 90.2–93.1%), 5.3 points below the overall rating. Players writing in Japanese are noticeably less positive. In the last 180 days, Japanese-language reviews show 92.0%.
The adjusted rating estimates trust from how reviews are written; it does not judge any individual review as fake. Data as of 2026-10-12.
Positive vs negative breakdown
Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.
Condition
Positive reviews
Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review
3%
8%
Very short text
36%
16%
Key activated outside Steam
28%
36%
Received for free
1%
2%
Owns very few games
12%
4%
Over 100 reviews written
3%
8%
Average trust (1.0 = full)
0.77
0.80
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 51.5 hours.
Rating history
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month (green = positive, red = negative)Positive share per month (months under 30 reviews omitted)Reviews per day, last 30 days
Recent sentiment
Period
Positive
Reviews
Last 30 days
96.3%
650
Last 180 days
97.1%
4,295
All time
97.1%
87,881
Japanese, last 180 days
92.0%
50
About this verdict
Every figure is computed from review data that Steam makes public. No AI estimation is used.
Review text is never stored or republished. Read the actual reviews on Steam.