Who can you trust?
Every press outlet and creator is rated by one standard: do their verdicts align with what players end up thinking of the same games? The scale each reviewer uses is decoded, not punished. What matters is whether knowing their verdict tells you what players will think, and whose side they take when press and players disagree. How it works →
avg trust · 775 rated · back players 36% of the time when press and players clash
avg trust · 19 rated · back players 37% of the time when press and players clash
The biggest names · hover for their record
Press outlets
Traditional publications, rated on whether their scores track player sentiment, and whose side they take when press consensus and players collide.
637 reviews on record · 289 compared
568 reviews on record · 322 compared
3,040 reviews on record · 1317 compared
386 reviews on record · 166 compared
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Least aligned with players
Everyone else · smaller outlets, provisional ratings
Under 20 usable reviews or a limited public track record; these lean on the neutral prior and firm up as the corpus grows.
40 reviews on record · 10 compared
24 reviews on record · 16 compared
216 reviews on record · 64 compared
161 reviews on record · 70 compared
274 reviews on record · 119 compared
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241 reviews on record · 73 compared
30 reviews on record · 18 compared
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4 reviews on record · 2 compared
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4 reviews on record · 2 compared
1 reviews on record · 33 compared
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6 reviews on record · 2 compared
280 reviews on record · 92 compared
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382 reviews on record · 132 compared
131 reviews on record · 54 compared
1,034 reviews on record · 410 compared
64 reviews on record · 32 compared
Creators
YouTube reviewers with real audiences, held to exactly the same standard as the press, including verdict-only reviewers like Skill Up, rated from their recommend/pan calls.
Everyone else · smaller outlets, provisional ratings
Under 20 usable reviews or a limited public track record; these lean on the neutral prior and firm up as the corpus grows.





