| --- |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: "Player Reviews from Metacritic (Game Reviews Dataset)" |
| tags: |
| - Review |
| - Sentiment |
| - Game |
| - Author |
| - Date |
| - Score |
| - Spoiler |
| - Platform |
| license: "cc-by-4.0" |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: Game |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Platform |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Score |
| dtype: int32 |
| - name: Review |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Date |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Author |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Sentiment |
| dtype: string |
| - name: Spoiler |
| dtype: bool |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_examples: 260768 |
| --- |
| |
|
|
| # 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. |
