Valve trials Steam review feature that includes hardware specs for better performance context

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The standout feature, however, remains the integration of hardware data into community reviews. Because Steam utilizes a binary recommendation system rather than a weighted numerical score, many players decline to recommend a title based solely on technical instability or poor optimization.

This behavior is understandable; a game that crashes repeatedly is difficult to endorse, regardless of its narrative or mechanical quality. These issues often arise even for players whose systems technically meet the developer’s listed minimum or recommended requirements.

By enabling this review toggle, Valve is giving the community a tool to verify how much power is actually needed to run a game. This could provide vital context for titles saddled with a “Mixed” rating due to launch-day performance hurdles.

Valve is currently evaluating Steam Machine release windows in response to global hardware and storage shortages.