As spotted by VGC(opens in new tab), Steam review collection site Steam250(opens in new tab) - which gives games a score based on how many positive reviews they’ve received in conjunction with how many players - has awarded Stray a score of 8.61, meaning out of 42,665 reviews, 98% are positive. Despite God of War having more reviews overall, Stray has received just enough positive ones to push Sony Santa Monica’s PC port off the top spot.
Other games performing well on Steam this year include Power Wash Simulator, which sits at the third spot, fellow Annapurna Interactive game Neon White in sixth place, and survival game Raft, which upon its release, managed to secure over 100,000 concurrent players in tenth place. As for God of War, unless you’ve been living under a rock – a Ragnarok, if you will – for the past several months, you’ll already be well aware that we’re getting a sequel to the 2018 title later this year. God of War Ragnarok is due to release on November 9, 2022, but this won’t affect the Steam250 rankings as, at the moment, the highly anticipated sequel is only said to be releasing for PS4 and PS5 and not PC. This could always go on to change at a later date, though. As spotted by VGC(opens in new tab), Steam review collection site Steam250(opens in new tab) - which gives games a score based on how many positive reviews they’ve received in conjunction with how many players - has awarded Stray a score of 8.61, meaning out of 42,665 reviews, 98% are positive. Despite God of War having more reviews overall, Stray has received just enough positive ones to push Sony Santa Monica’s PC port off the top spot.
Other games performing well on Steam this year include Power Wash Simulator, which sits at the third spot, fellow Annapurna Interactive game Neon White in sixth place, and survival game Raft, which upon its release, managed to secure over 100,000 concurrent players in tenth place. There’s no doubting that the virtual cat in the game is cute, and it’s a fun novelty to be playing as one, but the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setting has nothing to do with anything and neither does the fact that all the people are robots. The whole thing just seems a weird collection of random ideas, none of which fit together.
You can see that in the way you go through the different levels, where it’s shooting or stealth and then those mechanics never come up again. I mean, it’s not a bad game but if I was going to do a re-review I’d struggle to give it more than a 5/10. It was okay, while I played it, in part because it was so short, but even just a few hours afterwards it’s obvious it’s left no impression whatsoever.
Spooner
No guarantees
I think it’s very reasonable to be concerned about what GTA 6 is going to be like, now that so many important staff have left. Not just the head writer but the producer that is credited with making a success of the franchise in the first place.
This raises big questions about not just the quality of writing, and the amount of satire, but also whether it has the leadership to make something innovative and coherent. An open world game the size of GTA must be a nightmare to organise and Rockstar has lost a lot of talented people from GTA 5 and from Red Dead Redemption 2.
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