SteamGauge 0.4.0

Read every review of a game.

SteamGauge downloads every Steam review of a game and reads each one on your own computer: what players praise, what they criticise, how often, and the reviews behind every figure.

InstallSee a sample report

The SteamGauge window's cockpit: how many games and reviews are held, and what moved in each game since the last look.
The cockpit, with invented games.

The census

Every review

Every review Steam serves for a game, in every language. Each game shows how much of Valve's own total it holds.

What it downloads

The reader

Read on your computer

Each review is split into the points it makes, and each point is filed under one of 26 subjects as praise or complaint. A point the reader is unsure of stays unfiled. No account, no key, no upload.

How it reads

The evidence

Every figure opens

Any number opens onto the reviews behind it, and every subject carries how often the reader gets it right on games it never trained on.

Accuracy

Install

winget install Aureliolo.SteamGauge

Windows 10 or 11 on x64. The setup installs for your user alone, with no administrator rights. Reads on any graphics card with DirectX 12, or on the processor.

scoop bucket add aureliolo https://github.com/Aureliolo/steamgauge
scoop install aureliolo/steamgauge

Windows: the portable program, with a Start menu shortcut and steamgauge on the PATH.

brew tap aureliolo/steamgauge https://github.com/Aureliolo/steamgauge
brew install --cask aureliolo/steamgauge/steamgauge

Apple silicon. Reads through Core ML.

curl -fLO https://github.com/Aureliolo/steamgauge/releases/download/v0.4.0/steamgauge_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./steamgauge_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb

x86-64 with glibc 2.39 or later: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13. Reads on the processor.

sudo dnf install https://github.com/Aureliolo/steamgauge/releases/download/v0.4.0/steamgauge-0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm

x86-64, Fedora 40 or later. Reads on the processor.

Every download is checked against the SHA-256 the release is signed over. Install has the archives, the first launch and upgrading.

A first game

  1. Add a game by its name, its store link or its app ID. Every review downloads in the background.
  2. Read it. The largest reader the graphics card has room for files every point: minutes on a card, longer on the processor.
  3. Open a subject to see its praise, its complaints, the words each side uses, and the reviews behind every figure.

Or in a terminal

# every review of Hades II, into ./data
steamgauge crawl 1145350
# every point in them, read on this computer
steamgauge read 1145350
# one page with every figure and the reviews behind it
steamgauge report 1145350

The command line has every command.

Hand it to your AI assistant

The app is an MCP server with 53 tools: an assistant can find, download and read games, and ask what their players say. Paste this to yours:

Add SteamGauge to yourself by following https://aureliolo.github.io/steamgauge/agent.md,
then tell me which file you changed.

It reads the guide, adds SteamGauge to its own settings, and says which file it wrote. AI assistants has the command for each of 36 assistants, and for any other.

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