VRChat's Steam reviews have climbed back from 78% negative to 60% negative over the last 3 days, with 176 negative and 116 positive reviews landing in that window.
For context, the game sat at 29% negative before this story began, so the recovery still leaves VRChat Inc. well short of where it started.
The trouble kicked off after VRChat Inc. pushed Release 2026.4.1 live on October 28, a patch that introduced the Safety Center, improved face tracking and a new login flow, according to its official Steam post.
Within a day the floodgates opened, with 949 negative reviews on October 29 alone against just 60 positive, as players piled in over the lack of labels and filters for AI-generated worlds and avatars.
The daily numbers have cooled since then, dropping to 26 negative and 16 positive on November 12, though negative reviews still outnumber positive ones on every single day of the past two weeks.
According to reviews, the core complaint has not changed: players say VRChat Inc. ran a community poll on generative AI labelling and got a 95% yes, then delivered more microtransactions instead of filters.
One reviewer with 4,923.8 hours, who says they build and sell shaders and avatar systems for the platform, wrote that most of the talented creators they started with have left, and that they have barely played in six months.
Not every negative review is about AI, either, with one player urging others to "get your fucning priorities straight, please" and pointing instead at what they describe as weak tools for reporting bad actors and crashing servers.
So the reviews are split between players angry about AI content and players angry about safety, which is not exactly a ringing endorsement from either camp.
Sixty percent negative only looks like progress next to ninety-three.
The official Steam posts show nothing addressing AI labels or filters since the October 28 patch, so if you were hoping for a direct answer to that 95% poll result, players are still waiting on one.
Steam reviews, day by day
| Day (UTC) | Positive | Negative | Negative share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | 137 | 417 | 75% |
| 2026-11-04 | 58 | 312 | 84% |
| 2026-11-05 | 38 | 119 | 76% |
| 2026-11-06 | 51 | 84 | 62% |
| 2026-11-07 | 43 | 110 | 72% |
| 2026-11-08 | 53 | 83 | 61% |
| 2026-11-09 | 27 | 75 | 74% |
| 2026-11-10 | 56 | 89 | 61% |
| 2026-11-11 | 44 | 61 | 58% |
| 2026-11-12 | 16 | 26 | 62% |
The story so far
- 2026-10-29: VRChat Hit With Negative Steam Reviews Over Missing Generative AI Labels
- 2026-10-31: VRChat Steam Reviews Sink Further To 93% Negative Over Missing AI Labels
- 2026-11-06: VRChat Steam Reviews Still 78% Negative As AI Label Anger Lingers
Sources: VRChat on Steam (user reviews), VRChat developer announcements. Figures checked 2026-11-12 13:00 UTC.
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