Wada1/Metacritic_Games_Reviews_Dataset

Player Reviews from Metacritic – Games, Scores & Comments

Dataset Description

This dataset contains user-reviews scraped from the publicly-accessible pages of Metacritic (metacritic.com).
Each row corresponds to one review and includes the following fields:

• game_title: Title of the video game
• platform: Platform on which the game was reviewed (e.g., PS4, Xbox One, PC)
• review_score: Numerical score given by the user (out of 10)
• review_text: Full textual review (user’s written comment)
• review_date: Date on which the review was posted
• review_Sentiment: Sentiment of the review (positive , negative, neutral)

Source & Collection

• Data were collected via automated scraping of Metacritic’s user-review pages for video games
• Review aliases have been retained in anonymised form (or removed where appropriate) to protect user privacy.

Uses

Direct Use

This dataset can be used for:

• Sentiment analysis of player reviews (positive/negative classification)
• Correlation analysis between review scores and review text length or sentiment
• Trend-analysis of platforms/game genres over time
• Training/testing NLP models for review-classification, summarisation, or topic modelling

Out-of-Scope Use

• This dataset should not be used for tracking individual users or revealing personal identities.
• Because the reviews are self-selected users of Metacritic, conclusions should not be taken as representative of all players.
• Commercial redistribution or selling of the raw review-text without consent is not recommended unless licensed accordingly.

Dataset Structure

All data is contained in a single table (CSV/JSONL) with one row per review.