{"id":92735,"date":"2026-11-06T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92735"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:38:50","slug":"dead-by-daylight-jumps-to-positive-ratings-after-steam-hides-off-topic-reviews-following-burntpeanut-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92735","title":{"rendered":"Dead by Daylight Jumps to Positive Ratings After Steam Hides &#8216;Off-Topic&#8217; Reviews Following BurntPeanut Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/dead-by-daylight\">Dead by Daylight<\/a> has returned to &#8216;Mostly Positive&#8217; recent reviews on Steam after Valve labeled a chunk of ratings surrounding TheBurntPeanut backlash as &#8216;off-topic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To catch you up to speed, developer Behaviour Interactive&#8217;s recent work with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut landed its asymmetrical horror game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-devs-apologize-after-theburntpeanut-stream-stirs-controversy-in-its-community\">in the line of fire<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-developer-apologizes-again-removes-free-items-from-theburntpeanuts-account\">few apologetic posts<\/a> and hundreds of comments later, Dead by Daylight spent much of this week showing declining favorability ratings on Steam (via <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/381210\/charts\/\">SteamDB<\/a>) \u2013 but that now seems to be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Check out its Steam page today, and you&#8217;ll find that Dead by Daylight now boasts &#8216;Mostly Positive&#8217; reviews, with a little asterisk clarifying the reasoning for this sudden jump. A disclaimer shared in the reviews section of its page notes that the dates between November 1 \u2013 6 have been noted for off-topic activity. Valve explained that the range has been &#8220;marked as containing an abnormal set of reviews that we believe are largely unrelated to the likelihood that you would enjoy the product.&#8221; As a result, &#8220;the reviews within this period are excluded from the Review Score by default.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"dead-by-daylight-10th-anniversary-broadcast-visual-overhaul-reveal-screenshots\" data-value=\"dead-by-daylight-10th-anniversary-broadcast-visual-overhaul-reveal-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Steam users have the freedom to unmark the reviews Steam has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead by Daylight has returned to &#8216;Mostly Positive&#8217; recent reviews on Steam after Valve labeled a chunk of ratings surrounding TheBurntPeanut backlash as &#8216;off-topic.&#8217; To catch you up to speed, developer Behaviour Interactive&#8217;s recent work with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut landed its asymmetrical horror game in the line of fire. A few apologetic posts and hundreds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":92737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92739,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92735\/revisions\/92739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}