Steam Reviews Scraper - Game Reviews & Playtime

Scrape Steam game reviews from Steam's official store review endpoint: recommended or not, review text, date, helpful and funny votes, playtime at review time, Steam Deck, early access, free key, and developer responses. Plus a free summary per game with the review score ("Overwhelmingly Positive"), total positive and negative reviews.

• $0.30 per 1,000 reviews, no start fee beyond Apify's minimum.
• Game URL, app ID or just the name ("Stardew Valley").
• All reviews of a game (maxReviewsPerGame: 0), newest, recently updated or most helpful.
• Filter by positive / negative, language, purchase type and date.
• No browser, no proxy, no login, no API key.
• Never fails on bad input: wrong IDs, other URLs and typos become free status rows.

Use cases

• Game studios and publishers: monitor new negative reviews after a patch, by language.
• Market research: what players praise or hate in a genre; compare competitors.
• Sentiment analysis / AI summaries with playtime context (a 2-hour vs 500-hour player).
• Investors and analysts: review velocity and score trends.

Input

Field	Description
games	https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/..., 730 or Counter-Strike 2
maxReviewsPerGame	Default 200; 0 = all
sort	recent (default), updated, all (most helpful)
reviewType	all, positive, negative
language	all (default), english, german, turkish, schinese ...
purchaseType	all, steam, non_steam_purchase
onlyReviewsNewerThan	Skip older reviews

{
  "games": ["https://store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_Valley/", "Hades"],
  "maxReviewsPerGame": 500,
  "reviewType": "negative",
  "language": "english"
}

Output

One row per review (type: "review"): appId, gameName, reviewId, recommended, text, language, createdAt, updatedAt, votesUp, votesFunny, helpfulnessScore, commentCount, steamPurchase, receivedForFree, earlyAccess, primarilySteamDeck, developerResponse, developerResponseAt, authorPlaytimeHours, authorPlaytimeAtReviewHours, authorPlaytimeLast2WeeksHours, authorGamesOwned, authorReviewCount, url.

One free row per game (type: "game_summary"): reviewScoreDesc, reviewScore, totalPositive, totalNegative, totalReviews.

{
  "appId": "730",
  "gameName": "Counter-Strike 2",
  "recommended": false,
  "text": "hacker plagued garbage",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-19T08:52:08.000Z",
  "votesUp": 0,
  "authorPlaytimeAtReviewHours": 2368.2
}

Status rows (free)

invalid_input, not_found (no Steam app with that ID / name), no_reviews (nothing matches the filters), failed / partial (Steam stopped answering; rows already saved are kept).

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0003 per review ($0.30 per 1,000). Game summaries and status rows are free. Maximum cost per run is respected.

Reads Steam's public review endpoint. Use the data responsibly.