Steam Game Review Dataset

Context Video games have greatly contributed, and continue to contribute to the expansion of the entertainment industry. When the first video game, Pong, was launched in an arcade machine in 1972, it ignited a video game craze that quickly swept over the youth. With this, businesses such as Atari Games and Nintendo saw the golden opportunity of investing in a developing entertainment sector and began churning out gaming software and hardware. This caused the rise of the video game industry, which has generated over $109 billion in revenue and 2.2 billion gamers since its conception 50 years ago.

In this industry with over 47 million daily active users, Steam has been operating for almost 16 years. Its constant improvement to better accommodate users has made its development notable in the video game industry.

Steam is a digital distribution platform tailored to gamers and game developers. While it initially catered to PC games, the platform soon expanded its availability to home video game consoles such as the Xbox and Sony PlayStation. In Steam, gamers can log in to the website to conveniently purchase and play games online, a better alternative to buying physical copies of the games and manually downloading it on the computer.

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Content A lot of gamers write reviews at the game page and have an option of choosing whether they would recommend this game to others or not. However, determining this sentiment automatically from text can help Steam to automatically tag such reviews extracted from other forums across the internet and can help them better judge the popularity of games.

Game overview information for both train and test are available in single file game_overview.csv inside train.zip

Acknowledgements Steam digital distribution.

Inspiration Predict whether the reviewer recommended the game titles available in the test set on the basis of review text and other information.

Original Data Source: Steam Game Review Dataset