PUBG Steam Rating: What "Mixed" Actually Means

18 August 2026 · 5 min read

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Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

The “Mixed” label on PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS’ Steam page means that, at the time of measurement, only 60.5% of all collected reviews were counted as positive — a score of 5 on Steam’s internal 0-to-9 scale.

Here’s what that wording actually covers, why the share of reviews matters more than the raw count, and why the rating on its own isn’t a verdict on the game’s current quality.

What “Mixed” means and where the number 5 comes from

Steam doesn’t show a bare percentage on a game’s page — it first converts it into a word label: “Overwhelmingly Positive”, “Very Positive”, “Mixed”, “Mostly Negative” and so on. Internally, those labels sit on a scale of whole numbers from 0 to 9, where each range of positive-review share maps to its own label. For PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, at the time of measurement that label is “Mixed”, and the numeric value on the scale is 5.

“Mixed” sits in the middle of the scale. It’s not straightforwardly “bad” or “good” — it’s a signal that opinion is split: a large share of players left a positive review, and at the same time a substantial share left a negative one. The label deliberately doesn’t smooth that split in either direction.

How many reviews, and what share is positive

Here’s the full breakdown recorded on the game’s Steam page at the time of measurement:

These numbers aren’t a narrow “since launch” figure — they’re a total calculated across reviews in all languages and all purchase types. That means it includes reviews from players who bought the game directly and from those who got it another way; Steam doesn’t split them out in the overall label.

Why the share matters more than the count

It’s easy to draw the wrong conclusion from big numbers alone. 1083477 negative reviews is a lot in absolute terms. But on its own that figure says nothing about quality: it’s large because the game’s overall audience is huge, not necessarily because the share of unhappy players is high — it’s the share, not the raw count, that the “Mixed” label actually reflects.

The label is driven by the share of negative reviews relative to the total, not their raw count. A small game with just 19 reviews, most of them positive, would land a label closer to “Overwhelmingly Positive” — even though, in absolute terms, that’s many times fewer than the 1659468 positive reviews PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS has. Steam’s scale compares proportions, not volumes.

The same goes for 60.5%: it isn’t “low” in some everyday sense — it’s a specific point on the scale that falls inside the “Mixed” range and, by definition, means roughly a split of opinion rather than a lean either way.

Why a low share doesn’t always reflect current quality

The key thing to understand about any overall Steam rating: it’s calculated across every review ever left, not just recent ones. That follows directly from how Steam builds this label — across reviews in all languages and all purchase types, with no tie to a specific period.

That means the total blends impressions left at very different points in the game’s history — different stages of development, different technical states, different player bases. One overall label compresses all of that into a single number and a single word. It doesn’t say whether things are currently improving or getting worse — for that, the game’s Steam page has a separate section showing review trends over time, and that’s where to look if you care about the trend rather than the headline total.

The exact reasons why particular players left negative or positive reviews during any given wave aren’t visible from the game’s page — Steam shows the outcome of the vote, not the motives of the people voting. So any explanation of “why the split right now” beyond what’s visible on the page would be a guess, not a fact.

How to check the rating yourself

1. Open the PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS page on Steam.
2. Find the overall review label under the game’s title.
3. Hover over the label — it will show the exact number of positive and negative reviews, plus the percentage.
4. Toggle the filter between “all time” and “recent” if you want to compare the total against the current trend.
5. Filter reviews by language or purchase type if needed — those are the parameters that decide which reviews get counted into the total.

That’s the same route we used to record the numbers in this piece, and it always shows the current state, not a stale snapshot.

What else to check about the game

If you’re planning to try PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS despite the mixed rating, it helps to get the basics straight first: how the free-to-play version and PUBG Plus currently work and which game modes are available. Cheating and bans are a topic that comes up in reviews for pretty much any multiplayer game, so it’s worth checking beforehand how anti-cheat and bans work in PUBG.

In short

“Mixed” on PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS’ Steam page means 60.5% positive out of 2742945 reviews, or 5 on Steam’s 0-to-9 scale. That’s a total across the game’s entire history and every purchase type, not a verdict on its current quality — to work out whether it’s for you, look at the game’s page and the review trend yourself, not just the overall label.