Victory Road Hits Rare "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam Review

With Astro Bot, Elden Ring's Shadow of the Earthtree DLC and Final Fantasy 7:Rebirth all releasing, 2025 has also been a banner year for video games. Featuring the likes of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Donkey Kong Bananza, Silent Hill f and Hollow Knight: Silksong, it has been banger after banger for gamers.

That said, there may be one silent underdog that beats every other game, at least when it comes to Steam user reviews, and that's the name of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road. The hybrid sports and RPG title from Level5 currently holds the elusive “overly positive” status on Steam, with a whopping 96 percent of the 774 available reviews being “positive.”

Here is a sample of one of the person-based reviews with over 30 hours of recording.

I don't like football and yet, this game is so amazing. It's like playing a really good rpg, watching a really good anime, following a really interesting story, and competing in a really cool online game system with really deep and unique team building mechanics.

This game literally has it all and it does it all really well. It also has a crazy gacha system that is completely free. Of course, the price of this game is good, but still… it's totally worth it.

No need to have played Inazuma Eleven before, no need to like this game. It's a great game anyway.

The rest of the reviews echo similar sentiments, making Victory Road one of the highest-rated titles of 2025 despite focusing on a franchise that hasn't had a real new entry since at least 2013 and an anime series that's been running for nearly a decade without new content.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Was Years In The Making

Inazuma Eleven fans have been around for almost a decade since the game was first announced, believing it or not, like Silksong. It was originally revealed during an event in 2016, and, at the time, was announced as Inazuma Eleven Ares, the game being similar to the anime of the same name. It was supposed to be released in 2018. Keywords: considered.

It was delayed to 2019, before being fully renamed Inazuma Eleven: Heroes' Great Road and given a 2020 release date. That obviously didn't happen and things got delayed again to 2021 before finally being given a 2023 release, seven years after it was announced.

The story doesn't end here, as it was given the final rebrand of Victory Road, followed by the addition of next-gen console support before we finally ended up with a 2025 release, and even then, things were pushed back one last time before the game launched on November 13. And now here we are, with a game that has some extremely positive fanfare after all these years.