๐ฃ Review Pulse for Steam
Free ยท MIT license
A tiny self-hosted script that watches one Steam game and posts every new Steam review to a Discord channel. Point it at a private dev channel and your team sees feedback as it lands, without refreshing the store page.
What each post shows
- ๐ Recommended or ๐ Not recommended, in green or red
- An excerpt of the review (up to 300 characters)
- The reviewer’s playtime when they wrote it, and the review’s language
- A link to the review on Steam
- Steam’s own totals: total reviews, % positive and Steam’s label (for example “Very Positive”)
It doesn’t score or judge anything itself. The numbers come straight from Steam’s public review data; “% positive” is just Steam’s positive count divided by its total. The totals cover all languages and purchase types, so they can differ slightly from your store page’s headline number.
How it works
- One Python file, standard library only. No dependencies and no Steam API key.
- Runs once (good for cron) or keeps running and checks every N minutes. A Dockerfile is included.
- No duplicates: it remembers what it posted. A review is only marked as posted after Discord accepts it, so a failed post is retried next time.
- The first run posts just the 3 newest reviews so you can see it working; older reviews are never dumped into your channel.
- Mentions in review text (like @everyone) never ping anyone.
cp .env.example .env # set STEAM_APP_ID and DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL python review_pulse.py --every 15
Testing status
Tested (Oct 19, 2026): 10 unit tests, and live runs that posted real reviews of two games with active reviews into a real Discord channel. A second run posted no duplicates, and the totals in the posts matched Steam’s API. Not tested yet: the Dockerfile (it hasn’t been built in our QA) and running on Windows. It’s plain Python, so it should work there, but we haven’t run it.
Good to know: Steam’s review list can lag. In our test one response was about an hour behind, so reviews sometimes arrive in a small burst (real new reviews, not repeats). Steam’s review endpoint is public but undocumented, and Valve can change or limit it at any time.
Want more than new-review alerts?
Our paid Intel for Steam: Indie Dev Toolkit groups your reviews into themes with a “fix first” list, alerts you when negative reviews spike, and posts a daily competitor digest. For many small games, the free Review Pulse is all you need.
Review Pulse for Steam is free software under the MIT license, provided as is, without warranty. BotDrop is not affiliated with Valve or Discord.