What do gamers think?

This section analyzes over 1.2 million game reviews, totaling around 60 million words. To keep the visualizations clear and consistent, only English-language reviews are included in the analysis. While this narrows the scope, it ensures more meaningful interpretation of sentiment and phrasing.

Word cloud visualization

The word cloud highlights the most common phrases in the reviews, using an adjective + noun format. This approach provides more context than individual words, giving a clearer picture of what players are saying. Larger words appear more frequently in the data. Notably, the most common phrases are overwhelmingly positive—terms like “good game,” “fun game” and “amazing game” dominate the cloud. This suggests that overall sentiment in the dataset leans strongly positive.

Word frequency analysis

The final graph presents the same phrases as the word cloud, now in a bar chart with exact counts. “Good game” stands out as by far the most frequent phrase, which aligns with expectations for game reviews. Other popular phrases reinforce the earlier observation that positive sentiment is much more common than negative.