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Steam Funny Reviews are a series of game reviews done on the videogame software DRM^[9] retailer Steam, developed by Valve using their “Helpful customer reviews” function, a feature that has become popular for its tongue-in-cheek use, usually either for mocking the game or for praising/referencing a community fad.
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The Steam Review function was added^[1] in 2013.

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After the release of this feature, multiple tongue-in-cheek reviews started appearing in multiple games, shown more in AAA popular releases as well as controversial games.

With the increase in popularity of the reviews, multiple videogame review sites started making articles centered around explaining videogames based on humoristic steam reviews, one being on Kotaku^[2] which explained Skyrim based on reviews, followed by Complex^[3] and PC Gamer^[4].

On 14 January 2014, a link to a compilation of humoristic Dota 2 reviews was posted to the Dota 2 subreddit r/Dota2^[5], it has gathered 1001 upvotes and 169 comments, in late December 2013 a tumblr blog titled Steam-Reviews^[6] was made, as well as another one titled quality steam reviews^[7] in late June 2014, both compiling a series of funny steam reviews taking from a variety of games.

On 25 January 2014, a discussion on the Steam subreddit r/Steam^[10] was posted discussing whether or not Steam Joke Reviews were funny or were hindering the ability to get actual information on the game from real reviews.

On January 14, 2015, Valve added a “funny” button alongside the upvote and downvote button on Steam reviews to acknowledge the use of the reviews for satire.^[8]

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