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--- |
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language: |
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- en |
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pretty_name: "Player Reviews from Metacritic (Game Reviews Dataset)" |
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tags: |
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- Review |
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- Sentiment |
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- Game |
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- Author |
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- Date |
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- Score |
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- Spoiler |
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- Platform |
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license: "cc-by-4.0" |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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dataset_info: |
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features: |
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- name: Game |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Platform |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Score |
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dtype: int32 |
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- name: Review |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Date |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Author |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Sentiment |
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dtype: string |
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- name: Spoiler |
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dtype: bool |
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splits: |
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- name: train |
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num_examples: 260768 |
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--- |
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# Player Reviews from Metacritic – Games, Scores & Comments |
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## Dataset Description |
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This dataset contains user-reviews scraped from the publicly-accessible pages of Metacritic (metacritic.com). |
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Each row corresponds to one review and includes the following fields: |
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- **game_title**: Title of the video game |
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- **platform**: Platform on which the game was reviewed (e.g., PS4, Xbox One, PC) |
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- **review_score**: Numerical score given by the user (out of 10) |
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- **review_text**: Full textual review (user’s written comment) |
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- **review_date**: Date on which the review was posted |
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- **review_Sentiment**: Sentiment of the review (positive , negative, neutral) |
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### Source & Collection |
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- Data were collected via automated scraping of Metacritic’s user-review pages for video games |
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- Review aliases have been retained in anonymised form (or removed where appropriate) to protect user privacy. |
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## Uses |
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### Direct Use |
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This dataset can be used for: |
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- Sentiment analysis of player reviews (positive/negative classification) |
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- Correlation analysis between review scores and review text length or sentiment |
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- Trend-analysis of platforms/game genres over time |
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- Training/testing NLP models for review-classification, summarisation, or topic modelling |
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### Out-of-Scope Use |
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- This dataset **should not** be used for tracking individual users or revealing personal identities. |
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- Because the reviews are self-selected users of Metacritic, conclusions should **not** be taken as representative of *all* players. |
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- Commercial redistribution or selling of the raw review-text without consent is **not recommended** unless licensed accordingly. |
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## Dataset Structure |
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All data is contained in a single table (CSV/JSONL) with one row per review. |
