What Makes a Game High-rated? Towards Factors of Video Game Success

Abstract

As the video game market grows larger, it becomes harder to stand out from the crowd. Launching a successful game involves different aspects. But what are they? In this paper, we investigate some aspects of the high-rated games from a dataset of 200 projects. The results show that the none of the aspects of this study have a strong relationship with the game's success. A further analysis on the high-rated games shows that team, technical, and game-design aspects should be the main focus of the game developers.