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What players say
Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 299 sampled Steam reviews (268 positive / 31 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.
What positive reviews talk about
- Story & writing9% mention it
- Controls & UI6% mention it
- Difficulty & balance6% mention it
What negative reviews complain about
- Controls & UI23% mention it
- Difficulty & balance19% mention it
- Bugs & crashes13% mention it
Satisfaction by hours played
Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.
Under 5h
82%
118 reviews
5-15h
95%
94 reviews
15-40h
90%
52 reviews
40-100h
100%
26 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.
| Component | Positive | Quality (0-100) | Weight (pseudo-reviews) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press reviews (OpenCritic) | – | 83 | 8 |
| Creator reviews (1 tracked) | – | 91 | 0 |
| All-time Steam reviews | 94% | 89 | 1000 |
| Metacritic user ratings | – | 82 | 11 |
| Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted) | 94% | 89 | 86 |
| Calibration prior (typical game) | – | 72 | 50 |
Scoring window: last 30 days (no significant patch detected) · 245 reviews sampled · 235 total reviews in window · weighted 155.6 up / 9.5 down · computed 2h ago · full methodology →
Press & Creators reviews (70)
Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.
- 80
“Super Meat Boy is another excellent indie addition to Switch's library.”
read full review ↗ - 98
“It's an absolute must-buy from Xbox Live Arcade and should be found on every hard drive of every Xbox in existence. While this all sounds like high praise, Super Meat Boy earns every word of it.”
read full review ↗ - 100
“Super Meat Boy is one of the best platformers ever made. Yet that statement underestimates the game's achievement, which transcends mundane considerations of genre.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Super Meat Boy comes down to personal skill, which might be the only reason I didn't fling the controller through the window. In other words, if you fail, it's your fault. If the levels weren't well-designed, or if the controls were off even by the slightest bit, Super Meat Boy would be an entirely different experience. As it stands, it's one of the best platformers I've ever played.”
read full review ↗ - 85
“As someone who originally played Super Meat Boy years ago, and has played games that have iterated on it since, I can say there’s still nothing that quite captures everything it does right. It feels fabulous on the Switch, it’s still as tough as ever, and the rewarding feeling when you conquer a tough-as-balls level never fails to put a smile on my face. If you’ve never indulged this may be the best platform to play it on as you can take it anywhere, and if you’ve played it before it’s well worth taking a return trip to Paintown, population: You.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“Nearly eight years later, Super Meat Boy remains a master class in balancing difficulty into engaging level design.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“Super Meat Boy is an exercise in patience. You may in fact deplore it in the first one or two hours due to its unforgiving gameplay and level design, but if you take the time to consume much of what it has to offer, you may just acquire a taste for it.”
read full review ↗ - 85
“It feels great to be playing Super Meat Boy again, despite the soundtrack problem. I can't say enough good things about it, but you should know that the difficulty ramps up pretty steadily and somewhere during the third world, the gloves really come off. Enjoy the Warp Zone of World 5-7, kids! If you can find a similarly-experienced buddy, the two-player race is really quite fun.”
read full review ↗ - 95
“If you've been looking for a good platformer that actually holds up and lasts for more than a few hours then this is the game for you.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Super Meat Boy is a fantastic addition to the XBLA library and one of the most addictive games I have played all year. ”
read full review ↗ - 90
“XBLA's best pure-2D platformer to date.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Super Meat Boy starts out as just another indie game that revels in driving you crazy, but you end up crazy in love.”
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Nintendo Life
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Cubed3
Push Square
NintendoWorldReport
ZTGD
Eurogamer…and 58 more tracked reviews.
Patch history
- Makeship x Meat Boy 2.0. 3 Days leftMar 19, 2024