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 4 games where press consensus and players sharply disagreed, this reviewer sided with players 2 times.
Computed 6m 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.
- -31PRAGMATAoutlet 60 · players 92 · Apr 2026
- +30Little Nightmares IIIoutlet 80 · players 50 · Oct 2025
- +20Mafia: The Old Countryoutlet 87 · players 67 · Aug 2025
- -15007 First Lightoutlet 70 · players 85 · May 2026
- +19Life is Strange: Double Exposureoutlet 87 · players 68 · Oct 2024
- -23Wanderstopoutlet 64 · players 87 · Mar 2025
- +21ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spiesoutlet 100 · players 79 · Jun 2026
- -11Star Wars Outlawsoutlet 60 · players 71 · Aug 2024
- +22Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remakeoutlet 80 · players 58 · Apr 2024
- +27LEGO® Horizon Adventures™outlet 86 · players 59 · Nov 2024
Recent reviews (51 tracked)
- 78Splatoon RaidersJul 23, 2026
“Instead of competitive multiplayer, Splatoon Raiders has you take on fishlike enemies with an array of weapons and gadgets. It’s all fun enough, as a playground with well-designed jungle gyms and monkey bars.”
read full review ↗ - 100ZERO PARADES: For Dead SpiesJun 19, 2026
“Zero Parades is a spy masterpiece with a literary sensibility that borrows fropm the work of Thomas Pynchon, John le Carré and Philip K. Dick. The studio behind the celebrated Disco Elysium again sends a fallible professional through a complex world. ”
read full review ↗ - 70007 First LightMay 29, 2026
“There are high-tech gadgets and delightful moments in 007 First Light. But too often it becomes an action hero’s linear journey.”
read full review ↗ - 87Yoshi and the Mysterious BookMay 29, 2026
“Each level in Yoshi and the Mysterious Book can be viewed as a short experience made for children. But that take can be deceiving. The more you rummage around looking for imaginative creatures, the more happy astonishments there are to be found.”
read full review ↗ - 75MixtapeMay 8, 2026
“As a heartfelt remembrance of Northern California teen culture in the 1990s, Mixtape feels like a gamified jukebox musical film somewhat like “Across the Universe.” The gameplay is light and the music is eclectic.”
read full review ↗ - 70REPLACEDApr 28, 2026
“The cyberpunk Replaced does its best to court its audience’s late-20th-century nostalgia for that era’s sci-fi visions of the future. It feels, for better or worse, like a Sega Genesis game made with current technology.”
read full review ↗ - 60PRAGMATAApr 27, 2026
“Pragmata, which takes place in the wreckage of a futuristic moon colony, is in the lineage of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead. But it doesn’t have the same emotional bond.”
read full review ↗ - 90Pokemon PokopiaMar 2, 2026
“Pokémon Pokopia somehow outdoes the franchise's trademark cuteness. The common gameplay loop of catching and collecting Pokémon is shifted to one of comforting them, emulating Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.”
read full review ↗ - 79Resident Evil RequiemFeb 25, 2026
“In Resident Evil Requiem, the corridors of a former sanitarium are both terrifying and rewarding. But Raccoon City is bland and filled with chores.”
read full review ↗ - 83Metroid Prime 4: BeyondDec 24, 2025
“A slow start to Samus's latest adventure is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed her as savior.”
read full review ↗ - 100KeeperOct 23, 2025
“The adventure of an anthropomorphic lighthouse and transmogrifying bird left me happily unmoored, struggling at times to digest what I saw happening onscreen: the bizarre creatures, botanical puzzles, whimsical painterly shapes and riotous colors.”
read full review ↗ - 80Little Nightmares IIIOct 17, 2025
“The tastefully morbid Little Nightmares III forgoes run-of-the-mill jump scares, excessive gore and the other emblems of outright horror for the series’s trademark atmospheric creepiness.”
read full review ↗ - 86Pokemon Legends: Z-AOct 17, 2025
“The Mega Evolution transformation in Pokémon Legends: Z-A is dramatic and often fun to watch. Despite the pyrotechnics, later battles become an adrenaline-inducing game of strategically choosing the right potions, moves and dodges.”
read full review ↗ - 95Hades IIOct 1, 2025
“In this brilliantly balanced and elegant sequel of titans and witches, it’s not Melinoë’s godliness that shines. It’s her strength of character. The task before her feels Sisyphean, but she perseveres.”
read full review ↗ - 75DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACHSep 26, 2025
“The earliest moments of Death Stranding 2, which have Sam trying his best at parenting, suggest a more frank emotional journey than the one we got. The series continues to hides its heart behind verbosity and lists of proper nouns. ”
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