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.
Computed 28m 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.
Recent reviews (11 tracked)
- 100The Stanley Parable: Ultra DeluxeMay 7, 2022 · Pietro Iacullo
“The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe is an essay on players and our wrong habits. On the uselessness of reviews, expecially when they cannot talk about game content because of NDAs and readers spoilerphobia.”
read full review ↗ - 80Loot RiverMay 3, 2022 · Pietro Iacullo
“Loot River is Dark Souls meets roguelike meets Tetris. It's simple (it's banal), but the only description that fits the game is this one”
read full review ↗ - 90InscryptionNov 22, 2021 · Francesco Alteri
“Inscryption cannot be described. You must play the game in order to figure out what Inscryption really is, words are meaningless and useless in front of certain operas.”
read full review ↗ - 90Essays on EmpathySep 3, 2021 · Andrea Sorichetti
“Ten stories, ten little bullets fired straight through your heart, each one in a new different way. A new way to develop, feel and live the video game”
read full review ↗ - 80FORECLOSEDAug 12, 2021 · Pietro Iacullo
“FORECLOSED is a musical cover of Max Payne played by someone with no fear to add and changes some chords”
read full review ↗ - 90Chicory: A Colorful TaleJun 16, 2021 · Pietro Iacullo
“Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a story about both side of depression”
read full review ↗ - 85Returnal™May 4, 2021 · Pietro Iacullo
“One Thousand and One Deaths. A loop of stories told until you lost your mind. Selene's diaries became Sherazade's tales, the ending delayed until the next day, the next loop.”
read full review ↗ - 95EverhoodMar 4, 2021
“The most painful choiches sometimes bring the greatest joy, the most beautyful expeciences.”
read full review ↗ - 85Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2Jul 27, 2020 · Andrea Sorichetti
“Curse of the Moon 2 is the perfect Classicvania, a Dracula's Curse with a crazy pixel art and a bossy boss design. In short, way better than Ritual of the Night.”
read full review ↗ - 75HyperParasiteJul 13, 2020 · Andrea Sorichetti
“Hyperparasite is an arcade that sounds like the good old times. Tough, very tough, but really addicting, expecially in co-op.”
read full review ↗ - 55VirtuaVerseJun 19, 2020 · Andrea Sorichetti
“Virtuaverse is a graphic adventure that got Cyberpunk in the aesthetics but not on contents and themes.”
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