Alex Leboucher (Fufuste)

It's been a few weeks since videogamescritic.com went live, so here's what it actually does now, and why I think it's a better tool than what we've had: Metacritic and OpenCritic do one thing well: They tell you what critics thought in launch week. That doesn't really make a to of sense in modern times anymore. Games change, so the score should too. So VideoGamesCritic treats a rating as a living thing: • The VGC Score updates as the game does. 120k+ patches classified, and reviews written after a real patch count the most. No Man's Sky launched at 48 with players. It sits at 82 today. Cyberpunk went from 72 to 85. Meaning, you see how good a game is now, not how the game at launch was that you can't even play anymore. • Players hold at least two thirds of the verdict, by rule. Press informs the score, it can't outvote the people who bought the game. Nearly 2.5 million player reviews weighed, and not equally: Refund-Window Drive-Bys and Review Bombs count less. • Every game shows the gap between critics and players, and which outlets called it right. Launch vs now, critics vs players, and a month-by-month timeline with every patch marked. • The reviewers get reviewed too. 1,070 outlets and creators rated on how well their scores track what players ended up thinking, across 465,000+ press reviews. • Best Deals across Steam, PlayStation Store, Nintendo eShop and Xbox Store sorted by the games rating • Developer and publisher boards and a luminaries section that features everyone who shaped gaming • Estimated Steam sales for every game • Everything is a published formula over public data. No editorial thumb on the scale, no numbers and /methodology shows the whole recipe. • There's a public JSON API, and a living VGC Seal of Quality developers can put on their store page that updates with the number. 14,628 games tracked so far, and counting. If that sounds useful, have a look, and tell me what's missing! 👍❤️ videogamescritic.com