How this trust score was computed
Trust blends alignment (40%): does the outlet rank games the way players do; decoded accuracy (30%): after translating the outlet's own scale habits (a '7/10 means mediocre' scale is decoded, not punished), how well its reviews predict player sentiment; and player-side (30%): on games where press consensus and players sharply disagreed, whose side it took. Recent reviews weigh more (2-year half-life), and the blend is shrunk toward a neutral prior (60) so small samples can't peg the scale. Player quality is launch-window Steam sentiment, so outlets aren't punished for reviewing a launch build that later got patched.
Controversy record: on 35 games where press consensus and players sharply disagreed, this reviewer sided with players 17 times.
Computed 4m ago · full methodology →
Outlet vs. players
Each dot is a game both this outlet and players scored. The dashed line is perfect agreement: dots above it mean the outlet was more generous than players, below it more harsh.
Biggest disagreements with players
The receipts: games where this outlet's verdict landed furthest from player sentiment.
- -52Alan Wake IIoutlet 40 · players 92 · Nov 2023
- +6Halo 5: Guardiansoutlet 65 · players 59 · Jan 2016
- +24FOR HONOR™outlet 70 · players 46 · Feb 2017
- -23The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildoutlet 70 · players 93 · Mar 2017
- +19Monster Hunter Wildsoutlet 80 · players 61 · Mar 2025
- -45HELLDIVERS™ 2outlet 35 · players 80 · Feb 2024
- +23Fallout 4outlet 95 · players 72 · Nov 2015
- +15Watch Dogs 2outlet 90 · players 75 · Nov 2016
- -22The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomoutlet 70 · players 92 · May 2023
- -38Dying Lightoutlet 50 · players 88 · Jan 2015
Recent reviews (488 tracked)
- 65Splatoon RaidersAug 10, 2026
“The systems governing Splatoon Raiders are better than Splatoon Raiders itself. It features a rich enough well of progression and a wide enough variety of playstyles that the less exciting gameplay might feel worth slogging through. While combat’s entertaining at times, the miserable level design and an overall lifelessness really lets it down. Whether you’ll like Raiders ultimately comes down to how deeply you get into its fine tuning options, but the elements most pertinent to a videogame really struggle to hold up their end. ”
read full review ↗ - 65Splatoon RaidersAug 7, 2026 · James Stephanie Sterling
“The systems governing Splatoon Raiders are better than Splatoon Raiders itself. It features a rich enough well of progression and a wide enough variety of playstyles that the less exciting gameplay might feel worth slogging through. While combat’s entertaining at times, the miserable level design and an overall lifelessness really lets it down.”
read full review ↗ - 50The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium TalesJul 2, 2026 · James Stephanie Sterling
“We have on our hands an enjoyable game with some of the worst audio direction in videogame history.”
read full review ↗ - 85007 First LightJun 5, 2026
“007: First Light is a high quality experience that easily supplants GoldenEye 64 as the quintessential Bond game. Delivering every required component of the classic spy series and delivering a truly relevant storyline, it’s the very picture of what one might call a romp. Now that the origin tale’s out of the way, I’m very much looking forward to seeing more from this particular take on James Bond. ”
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“Everything is Crab is brimming with so much potential and I genuinely hope it keeps evolving alongside its menagerie of critters. The concept is wonderfully flexible but it’s been realized with such rigidity as to trap it in the shadow of its own immense promise. Still, it manages to provide plenty of fun even if it does get predictable, and the premise alone is clever enough to make it a worthwhile genre entry. ”
read full review ↗ - 75Tomodachi Life: Living the DreamMay 10, 2026
“If only its laudably permissive tools were supplemented with more substantial material, it would be a top tier production. A weirdly large selection of unlockable fences just doesn't put any gas in the tank, but it really is a fun ride while there’s fuel.”
read full review ↗ - 100Pokemon PokopiaMar 23, 2026
“This is exactly the kind of adorable, sweet natured, and engrossing experience Pokémon should always strive for. It’s completely revitalized the series’ waning magic and I’m unbelievably happy it exists.”
read full review ↗ - 90Resident Evil RequiemMar 6, 2026
“More than even the remakes, Resident Evil 9 celebrates the series’ legacy in its full breadth, and does so exquisitely.”
read full review ↗ - 90Resident Evil RequiemMar 5, 2026
“More than even the remakes, Resident Evil 9 celebrates the series’ legacy in its full breadth, and does so exquisitely.”
read full review ↗ - 80Crisol: Theater of IdolsFeb 27, 2026
“Crisol: Theater of Idols excels as a lower budget horror with high ambitions. It's got its foibles and I can nitpick all day, but so much style and effort has been poured into it that I just have to come away impressed. Fantastic visual and audio direction does a lot of the heavy lifting, taking this from a solid little homage to something more special. Creepy, intriguing, and with enough mechanical gimmickry to feel more different than it actually is, I’m certainly very glad I played it.”
read full review ↗ - 95OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0Dec 22, 2025
“While the town building could have been better, it’s far from bad and just adds to a game that’d be stellar without it. An excellent RPG, through and through.”
read full review ↗ - 30MARVEL Cosmic InvasionDec 4, 2025
“At $29.99, the price is frigging obscene for just how little you get, and how little of that is enjoyable.”
read full review ↗ - 90Kirby Air RidersNov 30, 2025
“When it comes down what truly matters, I can be a dingus mushroom and wear an eggshell for a hat. That alone makes Kirby Air Riders one of the best spin-off games a platformer’s ever had. ”
read full review ↗ - 40ARC RaidersNov 17, 2025
“Enjoyment can be finely sliced off of ARC Raiders like edible shreds from a doner kebab smeared in shit. That these slivers are entirely dependent on its players is hardly a triumph of the base experience, which is generally boring, flavorless, and lacking much of a point. If not for one intensely fragile hook, this is a sub-mundane peashooting box breacher that, despite a lack of originality or quality gameplay, still needed help from an algorithm.”
read full review ↗ - 90Ghost of YoteiNov 17, 2025
“Now if they’d just let me wear the cool full-face masks with the cool helmets instead of making me pick. The enemies can have both, why can’t I, you cowards?”
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