Steam Co-Review Network

Graph dataset connecting 82,000+ Steam games through shared user reviews. Two games share an edge when multiple users reviewed both.

Live visualization: https://dr.eamer.dev/datavis/interactive/steam-network/

Built from 128 million user reviews across 80,000 games (2012-2024), sourced from the artermiloff Steam Reviews 2024 dataset and FronkonGames game metadata.

Files

File	Description	Size
steam_network_full.json	Full co-review graph (48K nodes, 33M weighted edges)	1.4 GB
steam_all_2005.json	82,928 game catalog with genres, tags, ratings	6.2 MB
steam_force_layout.json	Genre-aware pre-computed layout positions (9K nodes)	252 KB

Live Visualization

dr.eamer.dev/datavis/interactive/steam/

Four interactive Canvas-rendered views: universe scatter plot, chord diagram, force-directed network, and genre timeline.

Pipeline

python3 build_network_full.py   # Scan 128M reviews, build co-review edges
python3 enrich_data.py          # Build game catalog from FronkonGames CSV
python3 compute_layout.py       # Genre-aware force layout (needs networkx)

Platforms

• GitHub: lukeslp/steam-network-data
• Kaggle: lucassteuber/steam-universe-network
• HuggingFace: lukeslp/steam-co-review-network

License

CC-BY-4.0

Author

Luke Steuber — lukesteuber.com