Can you trust Hogwarts Legacy's Steam reviews? Adjusted rating 88.8%
Genuinely great 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-12
Summary
Hogwarts Legacy holds an official Steam rating of 89.7%. After weighting 400 positive and 400 negative reviews by trust, the adjusted rating is 88.8% (95% range 88.4–89.2%), 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).
Japanese-language reviews alone show 76.8% (1,424 reviews, 95% range 74.6–78.9%), 12.9 points below the overall rating. Players writing in Japanese are noticeably less positive. In the last 180 days, Japanese-language reviews show 63.6%.
Positive reviews average 0.73 in trust and negative ones 0.81; the difference shifts the rating by less than one point. The most common discount factor is very short reviews (41% overall).
Across 45 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 84.6%, 5.1 points below the all-time figure. Sentiment over the past six months is weaker.
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 | 2% | 13% |
| Very short text | 44% | 19% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 14% | 22% |
| Received for free | 1% | 1% |
| Owns very few games | 26% | 13% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 1% | 4% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.73 | 0.81 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 19.5 hours.
Rating history
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 84.1% | 2,639 |
| Last 180 days | 84.6% | 12,707 |
| All time | 89.7% | 375,469 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 63.6% | 33 |
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