The top ten only has one awesome game and 2 decent ones.
The trend continues, with 3/4 of the top 25 being utter crap

This is less than useless

Did you Know that companies pay for good Reviews?
Even the shit Games have good reviews

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i use https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/ 💓

You cant make a global list that everyone will Like

i like this part "Because overwhelmingly positive means more than IGN 10/10."

bad rats

I was skeptical about the list when Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is further above than Witcher 3 in ratings. The gaming community was saturated with positive responses for the Witcher game at one point, but not a peep for the Ty game.

Useless. The list takes into account games with a very low amount of positive reviews. Just because the game has 100 positive reviews, does not mean it should make the top 250. lol

No, because there isn't an XCOM on #1.

It lacks the option to weigh-in by number of reviews so it's pretty dodgy, any bland and generic game can get some 50-100 positive reviews if the devs promise keys or something like that and then appear on the list.

Well, I see One Finger Death Punch and Rabi-Ribi (and Portal 1 and 2, but come on- that's a given) really high so I guess I have to agree with the list even if I know very little about the majority of the other games in it. :D

Boring serious reply to thread:
Unfortunately, since people have different tastes, it is impossible to make an objective list of top games. Since they are listed along with genres this could mean that people can search by those instead, but they seem to have taken that information from the Steam tags which can be... unreliable.
The list has some uses though- in a way it shows how satisfied the people who bothered writing reviews for those games were with what they were expecting and what they got. I'd guess that's why there are so many anime games there- most people who don't like anime games tend to not buy them, therefore leaving the majority of people who did satisfied since they knew those were games they had an interest in.

I've never heard of at least half of the top 25 and the rest seem way off from where I would place them. Also, early access shouldn't even be included.

I don't know, man. How is a beat-up volleyball qualified to rank games?

Where's Bad Rats? :(

With only "yes or no" votes on steam this list will not work.
Seeing games get smashed because some wired decision that not even affect the gameplay by itself makes the list unaccurate.

Of cause people should vote with their wallet when a company acts strange and they don't like it. But sometime it get's out of control.
For example "We happy few". The game launched 1.5 years ago in EA for 20€ (or 30€? don't remember). They said from beginnen that the price will raise over the time. Then this year they got Gearbox as publisher and startet also to sell a Pre-Order option of the game. With this they changed the price to the upcomming full price (but also said this 4 weeks infront so people could still get it at the lower price)
Before the pricechange the game was "mostly positiv" now it's "mostly negativ". The game itself didn't changed at all.
Steam Page

This is just on example. There are games that got voted down because some of the devs did some strange things like claiming copyrights at youtube or saying something wrong and all that.

Where are the Elder Scroll games?

Wow they group games with over 1000,000 votes along with those with just a few hundred....

Where’s the logic in that?

players opinion depend also on different thing. they could put 9.0 to a great 60€ AAA game and 9.9 to a poor 1$ because their expectation from those games were different to begin with. if no mans sky was 3€ and didn't overselled their game with their publicity i would have said it was worth it, yet you can be certain that i won't say it is as of now..

if TY the Tasmanian Tiger is in the top10 best steam game, im ready to move back to console gaming

Thank you anyway I found some new interesting looking games I've never heard before 😉

A Hat In Time <3

As it was mentioned in the thread previously, I'd rather prefer https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/
At least here the list seems to have a 1k vote entry minimum (10k for top25).

Although I admit, even the linked site could be good for an average gamer to maybe try something new and find games in a new genre that seem to be generally well-received. So in this regard, it can be helpful and useful.