Gotcha! In Steam, you hover your mouse over "Store" then select "Stats" from the dropdown menu, and on the left you'll see "Live Charts" that's where you'll see a clearly marked "Most Played" tab.

It's been there for at least a decade or so, but Valve overhauled the UI last year.

Yes for user has verified completed the game or a certain level of progress - in the case of arena, sport, puzzle, and casual games that don’t have endings. And written reviews only, no scores, since scoring is a subjective scale.

Hard no for unqualified reviews - and by that I mean reviewers who haven’t played the game, don’t own the game, or have only played it for a few minutes - as these are often abused by review bombers who don’t review games based on their experience so much as some kind of activism or ideological drive, which undermines the whole system.

"The game is good but not as good as people say, not recommended"

"[Requirement specified in the steam page] Is enough reason to NOT buy this game (but I bought it anyway because I don't read)"

"GODOT is a woke engine"

"This game would be better if the protagonist wasn't a woman"

"The developers is an EMO and doesn't care about his users"

And I could go on and on in the list of trash reviews I have seen on Steam. Not long ago an indie game I wanted to buy released for both PC and PS5, on Steam it had a 50% rating with mostly negative reviews because people bought the game without reading the steam page first and were bitching about a requirement (the same game is 4.5 of 5 on PSN but that is irrelevant for the purpose of this comment). But hey it's better a bad review from a copy sold than not selling, right? No, the first 24 hrs are crucial for a game on Steam, based in sales and ratings Steam decides to keep promoting the game or send it to hell with the rest of games. In this age where people love to hate and love to follow what their favorite streamer says Steam is full of trash reviews and those trash reviews can harm years of work. PSN and Nintendo eshop are good without the feature.

User counts would be fun tho.

Xbox has user reviews on the store and you do have to have a verified digital purchase. That said many are useless when you see 1 star and the review just says "gay"

Not a fan of how CCU data is being used as warring material. That and I see it turning people into trying to think like a C-suite exec, which shouldn't be a thing, yet I'm seeing it happen on the net.

User reviews yes. I care little for combing through Steam reviews like some ppl seem to care a lot about to just pick on Steam reviews (if you haven't seen the spoofed Meta reviews, I've got a bridge to sell you, and especially on the bots).

I'd be fine with just user reviews, but not done in the shady way Epic does it, where they are "hand picked". Reviews should always show the positive and the negative ones.

The gaming community is devolving to the point where more and more user reviews will be polarized at either one star or five stars. Public reviews of movies are already useless for that reason.

This is different. You have to have purchased the game and time in fame will be displayed.

Xbox/MS store has them and it seems it will be only worse on other consoles because they obviously playing with controller only and barely anyone want to type a whole review with a controller.

The review filters are great to filter out review bombers and for getting the most useful reviews to the top:

Yes.

I love posting my reviews.