{"id":49296,"date":"2025-06-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49296"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:59:18","slug":"new-shadowverse-game-is-mostly-negative-on-steam-after-topping-sales-charts-and-peaking-at-over-100k-concurrent-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/new-shadowverse-game-is-mostly-negative-on-steam-after-topping-sales-charts-and-peaking-at-over-100k-concurrent-players\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shadowverse game is Mostly Negative on Steam after topping sales charts and peaking at over 100k concurrent players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond<\/strong>, a successor to Cygames\u2019 strategy card game Shadowverse, has already reached the milestone of a million downloads three days following its release on June 17, as well as first place on Apple and Steam store sales rankings. However, looking at reviews on Steam, Apple and Google Play stores, it appears that the game is being review-bombed by players \u2013 likely due to its monetization model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for 1 MILLION <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShadowverseWB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShadowverseWB<\/a> downloads! Here&#39;s another commemorative illustration of Eudie, by Mikeboshi!<br><br>\ud83d\udc47 Download Now<br>App Store: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AxNRt19N7Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/AxNRt19N7Z<\/a><br>Google Play: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JpuQmTr8Nb\">https:\/\/t.co\/JpuQmTr8Nb<\/a><br>Steam: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8motJXajEo\">https:\/\/t.co\/8motJXajEo<\/a><br>Epic Games Store: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0FYwa7eLfh\">https:\/\/t.co\/0FYwa7eLfh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jDhg7PlYKr\">pic.twitter.com\/jDhg7PlYKr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond (@shadowversegame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shadowversegame\/status\/1935638694205202491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over on Steam, Worlds Beyond is \u201cMostly Negative\u201d with only around 20% of its 9000+ reviews being positive. Reviews on Apple and Google Play stores are not as harsh as on Steam, but the game\u2019s rating does not go over 3.0 stars on either platform, with reviews being almost completely polarized between 1-star and 5-star reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"106\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49298\" style=\"width:314px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Review score on Steam<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"551\" height=\"112\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960002.jpg 551w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960002-380x77.jpg 380w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Reviews on Apple Store Japan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"215\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960003.jpg 567w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960003-380x144.jpg 380w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Reviews on Google Play Store<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most negative reviews cite an overall stronger presence of pay-to-win elements and a poorly balanced in-game economy, stating that the prices of packs have significantly risen while the amount of free-to-play rewards have dropped compared to the game\u2019s predecessor. Players are also unhappy that it takes much longer to build viable decks without making purchases. Furthermore, Steam users noted that you now have to own at least three cards of the same set (which includes legendary cards) to be able to liquefy them. However, as obtaining cards has already become a bit more difficult with the price inflation, it is understandable why players might be frustrated with the updated mechanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"157\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960004.jpg 961w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960004-380x62.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-492960004-768x125.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite players\u2019 dissatisfaction with the aggressive monetization model, data on <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/2584990\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam charts<\/a> suggests that there\u2019s still many players actively playing the game, with an all-time peak of over 100k players in the past 3 days and over 44k concurrent players at the time of writing. So, while there still seem to be many players actively enjoying Worlds Beyond, they\u2019re probably hoping that review-bombing the game on launch could push Cygames to make some improvements to the in-game economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, a successor to Cygames\u2019 strategy card game Shadowverse, has already reached the milestone of a million downloads three days following its release on June 17, as well as first place on Apple and Steam store sales rankings. However, looking at reviews on Steam, Apple and Google Play stores, it appears that the game is being review-bombed by players \u2013 likely due to its monetization model. Over on Steam, Worlds Beyond is \u201cMostly Negative\u201d with only around 20% of its 9000+ reviews being positive. Reviews on Apple and Google Play stores are not as harsh as on Steam, but the game\u2019s rating does not go over 3.0 stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":49297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-49296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Shadowverse game is Mostly Negative on Steam after topping sales charts and peaking at over 100k concurrent players - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond gets review-bombed on multiple platforms after reaching 1 million downloads and over 100k concurrent players.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/new-shadowverse-game-is-mostly-negative-on-steam-after-topping-sales-charts-and-peaking-at-over-100k-concurrent-players\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Shadowverse game is Mostly Negative on Steam after topping sales charts and peaking at over 100k concurrent players - 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