Summary
DespiteInZoi’splayer count falling sharply,achieving something The Sims 4 hadn’t in years, andalmost dropping below The Sims 3, the game retained a strong community,willing to go to bat for it when the chips were down.
Fan sentiment started to change earlier this week, however, whenKrafton listed the ways in which Generative AI was used in InZoi’s development. The announcement led to sections of the community arguing about whether this was good for the game and the wider gaming scene.
Now, this negativity seems to have translated into the game’sSteamreviews, with InZoi receiving more negative reviews than positive over a prolonged period for the first time in its history.
InZoi’s Negative Steam Reviews Are Slowly Outpacing Its Positive Ones
Over the last seven days, InZoi has received 34 more negative reviews than it has positive ones. Over that period, it got 148 positive reviews on Steam and 182 negative ones, meaning that for every four positive reviews, it received a little over five negative ones, according to data fromSteamDB.
While those numbers are hardly terrifying—one good day could swing the week from a net negative to a net positive—they represent a bad pattern for the title.
Five of the last seven days resulted in InZoi receiving more negative reviews than positive ones. Prior to this, in the game’s 43 days since release, it had only had one day when the negative reviews had outweighed the positive, and its 40 negative reviews on May 9 is the second-highest number since as far back as April 9.
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Thanks to its early form, in which it received 7393 positive reviews versus 1392 negative ones in its first two days, InZoi still has a 79 percent positive review score on Steam, according to SteamDB’s data. This recent trend has to change, though, as sentiment is clearly changing on the title that’s in early access.
