Fan Favorites
Tens of thousands of reviews, and the score still has to hold.
Terraria leads this one at 1,553,688 reviews and has earned the spot: BANG 97 across 51.7 advertised hours. The gate under it is 15,000 reviews minimum and a BANG of 84 or better, sorted by review count. 1,442 games on Steam have 15,000 reviews or more, and 298 of them clear 84. That is a higher hit rate than I expected before I ran the count.
Sorting by reviews instead of by score is a choice I am not fully happy with. Euro Truck Simulator 2 sits near the top with 941,889 reviews and a 92.3, and 45.9 hours of driving a truck across Europe is more game than a 2012 sim has any business being. Baldur's Gate 3 at 92.8 and 73.1 hours sits near the top too. Phasmophobia makes it at 87.9, and on reviews it sorts above every smaller game that beats it on score. Popularity is the axis. Value is only the gate.
The 15,000 line punishes anything recent. Review counts are cumulative, so the threshold rewards a game that has been out for a decade and quietly drops a new release loved by twelve thousand people that has not had time to build the pile. If you want the newest good things, this is the wrong list.
