Dawnwalker: Russian Steam reviews gained ground, Japanese did not
Eleven days after launch, Russian Steam reviews for The Blood of Dawnwalker tripled and rose 16 points, closing most of the gap we flagged at launch.
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Eleven days after launch, Russian Steam reviews for The Blood of Dawnwalker tripled and rose 16 points, closing most of the gap we flagged at launch.
All-time Steam totals re-queried 2026-09-13: Simplified Chinese sits at 23.3% against English's 62.4%. Seven languages pool near 28%, the rest near 60%.
All-time Steam totals re-queried 2026-09-13: Traditional Chinese is now lowest at 34.4%, Russian at 40.3%, Portuguese (BR) leads at 69.7%.
Steam's full appreviews totals put Chinese at 86.1% positive and English at 93.5% positive — a 7.4-point gap, not the 44 points one small sample implied.
Six games, re-queried 2026-09-13. Leading complaints mostly differ, Tarkov's language gap runs 39 points, and X4 swings 68 points from first hours to best.
1,000 recent Steam reviews, re-queried 2026-09-13, plus the original 1,200-review bucket set. The median review is 33 characters; the 200-hour dip holds.
900 fresh reviews by playtime, 1,200 by month. No playtime band drops below 86%, but June — the month V71 launched — is still the low point.
1,500 reviews re-pulled six weeks in. 68% of reviewers have stopped playing and rate it 80.5%; Simplified Chinese still trails English by 14 points.
X4 reads 22.9% positive under two hours, 90.5% past two hundred. German is the second-largest review language, and June, when 9.00 shipped, was the worst month.
1,000 recent Steam reviews, re-queried 2026-09-13: approval keeps falling past 50 hours, down to 25.8% over 100 hours, and the key-versus-store gap has closed.
1,500 fresh Steam reviews by playtime and language. New players under 2 hours score 40% positive; Chinese-language reviews trail their own average by 17 points.
Keyword counts from a 500-review Steam sample lined up against Corsair Cove's five post-launch patches by date, with sample-size caveats and no causal claims.
Every roadmap and DevNote promise, checked through 9 September 2026 against actual patch notes, plus what a 100-review sample says split the Mixed rating.