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People Playground

People Playground

mestiez · released Jul 22, 2019

ActionCasualIndieSimulationPC

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Steam page ↗Metacritic · users 8.3 ↗
91
VGC Score
■Stablehigh confidence

anchored at patch: “Updates and Workshop” (6mo ago)

92%
At launch
98%
Steam all-time
n/a
Press
73%
Player sentiment
97%
Recent sentiment

Screenshots & trailers

What players say

Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 458 sampled Steam reviews (423 positive / 35 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.

What positive reviews talk about

Positive reviews don't converge on specific aspects.

What negative reviews complain about

  • Performance9% mention it

Satisfaction by hours played

Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.

Under 5h

96%

53 reviews

5-15h

94%

96 reviews

15-40h

94%

97 reviews

40-100h

95%

80 reviews

100h+

87%

132 reviews

Review sentiment over time

Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.

How this score was computed

The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.

ComponentPositiveQuality (0-100)Weight (pseudo-reviews)
Press reviews (Metacritic)––0
All-time Steam reviews98%941502
Metacritic user ratings–8721
Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted)97%933000
Calibration prior (typical game)–7250

Acclaim gate: the raw blend lands at 92.9, but scores above 88 must be earned in front of a mass audience; this verdict rests on 317,584 player reviews, a largely self-selected fanbase. As more players weigh in, the ceiling rises (full scale unlocks at 100,000 reviews).

Scoring window: since the last significant patch (Feb 6, 2026) · 300 reviews sampled · 20767 total reviews in window · weighted 239.8 up / 8.3 down · computed 5h ago · full methodology →

Patch history

  1. Updates and Workshop
    Feb 6, 2026significant · resets scoring window
  2. Security Update
    Feb 3, 2026significant · resets scoring window
  3. 1.27 patch 5
    Jan 8, 2024
  4. 1.27 patch 4
    Jan 6, 2024
  5. People Playground 1.27
    Oct 21, 2023
  6. 1.27 preview
    Aug 12, 2023significant · resets scoring window
  7. Recent changes, in case you didn't know
    Mar 4, 2023significant · resets scoring window
  8. People Playground 1.26
    Dec 29, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  9. 1.26 preview
    Aug 31, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  10. People Playground 1.25
    Jul 13, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  11. 1.25 preview
    Jun 30, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  12. 1.24 patch 5
    May 24, 2022
  13. 1.24 patch 3
    May 22, 2022
  14. 1.24 patch 1
    May 22, 2022
  15. Gore update - People Playground 1.24
    May 21, 2022
  16. 1.24 preview
    May 15, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  17. People Playground 1.23.9
    Apr 14, 2022
  18. People Playground 1.23.7
    Apr 11, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  19. People Playground 1.23.6
    Apr 3, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  20. People Playground 1.23
    Mar 28, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  21. 1.23 preview
    Mar 15, 2022significant · resets scoring window
  22. 1.22.3
    Dec 2, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  23. People Playground 1.22.2
    Nov 10, 2021
  24. People Playground 1.22.1
    Nov 8, 2021
  25. People Playground 1.22
    Nov 1, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  26. 1.22 preview
    Oct 28, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  27. People Playground 1.21.3
    Aug 23, 2021
  28. People Playground 1.21.2
    Aug 19, 2021
  29. People Playground 1.21.1
    Aug 18, 2021
  30. Small patch
    Aug 17, 2021
  31. People Playground 1.21
    Aug 17, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  32. 1.21 preview
    Aug 15, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  33. People Playground 1.20
    Jul 28, 2021
  34. 1.20 preview
    Jul 27, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  35. People Playground 1.19.2
    Jun 28, 2021significant · resets scoring window
  36. People Playground 1.19.1
    Jun 27, 2021
  37. People Playground 1.19
    Jun 19, 2021
  38. 1.19 preview
    Jun 16, 2021
  39. People Playground 1.18.1
    May 30, 2021
  40. People Playground 1.18
    May 29, 2021

…and 51 earlier patch announcements.