What is under a review wave right now, who is writing it, and does it recover? · 50 waves in the last 14 days
The detection is SteamPeaks’ own: a bucket of Valve’s review histogram whose positive share breaks from the game’s own median on unusual volume. Valve exposes no off-topic marker through any endpoint, so no wave here is called off-topic by Valve, and the store’s own summary may differ.
| # | Game | When | Reviews | Positive | Writers | Recovery | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea Power |
| 1 to 7 Sep 2026negative wave |
| 130×3.6 usual |
| 60.0% −30 ptsmedian 90% |
| Simplified Chinese · 44%55.8 h at review · 141 sampled |
| not recovered |
| 2 | IfSunSetsIfSunSets | 1 to 7 Sep 2026negative wave | 57×4.4 usual | 59.6% −15 ptsmedian 75% | English · 55%6.6 h at review · 58 sampled | still open |
| 3 | No More Room in Hell 2No More Room in Hell 2 | 25 Aug to 7 Sep 2026positive wave | 1,624×30 usual | 73.1% +13 ptsmedian 60% | English · 75%12.4 h at review · 500 sampled | surge |
| 4 | PLATiNA :: LABPLATiNA :: LAB | 21 Aug to 3 Sep 2026negative wave | 550×59 usual | 13.1% −78 ptsmedian 91% | Korean · 84%10.3 h at review · 297 sampled | not recovered |
| 5 | DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRADRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA | 26 Aug to 1 Sep 2026negative wave | 215×2.3 usual | 20.5% −45 ptsmedian 65% | English · 89%107 h at review · 214 sampled | not recovered |
A bucket is a wave when its positive share is 15 points or more under the game’s median bucket (negative) or 12 points or more over it on 2.5× the usual volume (positive), carrying at least 1.6× the median volume and a floor of reviews (25 for the daily series, 40 for the weekly or monthly one); neighbouring buckets of the same kind merge, and the six strongest per series are kept per game, the same rules the Reviews section of each game page runs. Writers come from the reviews SteamPeaks sampled inside the wave’s days, where the sampler has reached the game; the histogram counts are Valve’s. Recovery is the share back within 5 points of the median within 60 days. Recomputed daily. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.