Steam trending momentum (daily lists)
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- updated October 5, 2026
- CC BY 4.0
Daily snapshots of the Trending on Steam lists on imho.run. Each row is one game on one day's rising, breakout or review-bomb list, with its rank, our momentum score and rounded percentage changes in new reviews and players online against the game's own 3-week baseline. Raw Steam counts are not included. Updated daily; the archive grows by one day at a time.
The archive starts on October 5, 2026 and holds 1 days so far.
Columns
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
day | UTC date of the list (YYYY-MM-DD). |
list | rising, breakout or review_bomb. |
rank | Position on that day's list, from 1. |
appid | Steam app ID. |
name | Game name. |
imho_url | The game's page on imho.run. |
momentum_score | Our momentum score (see How it is built). Empty for breakouts, which are ranked by review volume. |
reviews_growth_pct | New reviews in the last 7 days against the usual week, as a rounded % change. Empty for breakouts. |
ccu_change_pct | Players online, last 3 days against days 8-28, as a rounded % change. Empty when there are too few samples. |
review_bomb | true when this week's reviews turned sharply negative. |
Sample rows
The first rows of today's file, exactly as they are in the CSV.
| day | list | rank | appid | name | imho_url | momentum_score | reviews_growth_pct | ccu_change_pct | review_bomb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | rising | 1 | 899770 | Last Epoch | https://imho.run/games/899770/last-epoch | 2.62 | 770 | 4876 | false |
| 2026-10-05 | rising | 2 | 553640 | ICEY | https://imho.run/games/553640/icey | 2.449 | 2645 | empty | false |
| 2026-10-05 | rising | 3 | 246420 | Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense | https://imho.run/games/246420/kingdom-rush-tower-defense | 2.445 | 559 | 3497 | false |
| 2026-10-05 | rising | 4 | 2873060 | The Bell Echoes | https://imho.run/games/2873060/the-bell-echoes | 2.24 | 51200 | empty | false |
| 2026-10-05 | rising | 5 | 1057090 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | https://imho.run/games/1057090/ori-and-the-will-of-the-wisps | 2.125 | 808 | empty | false |
How it is built
- Every hour we read Steam's public daily review counts for about 4,000 popular and new games, and each game's player count at the same UTC hour every day.
- For each game we compare the last 7 complete days of new reviews with its average week over the 21 days before. The momentum score is ln((last 7 days + 20) / (baseline week + 20)), blended 60/40 with the player-count trend when we have enough samples.
- Rising: score of at least ln(1.3) and 14+ days of baseline. Breakouts: games whose first review is under 45 days old, ranked by this week's review volume. Review bombs: the positive share of this week's reviews fell by 20+ points or under 35%.
- The page lists are rebuilt every 30 minutes; each day's rows in the file are the last lists published that UTC day.
Updates
A new day of rows every day. The file is regenerated every few hours and cached for up to 6 hours.
Licence and attribution
The datasets are licensed CC BY 4.0: you can copy, share and adapt them, also commercially, as long as you credit imho.run and link to the dataset page.
The licence covers the values we compute: ranks, momentum scores, rounded growth percentages, the co-op classification and review-count buckets. Game names and Steam app IDs are factual identifiers. The underlying Steam data belongs to Valve, and the files hold no raw Steam counts. imho.run is not affiliated with Valve or with any game's developer or publisher.
How to cite: imho.run, “Steam trending momentum (daily lists)”, CC BY 4.0, https://imho.run/datasets/steam-trending-momentum
Changelog
- 2026-10-05: First release. The archive starts with the lists published on this date.