How we score
A game entry can show up to two scores. They look alike — both are a number out of 10 — but they are not set by the same people and do not measure the same thing. This page explains which is which.
Our score
It is editorial: we set it ourselves, after playing the game enough to hold an opinion we can defend. It is out of 10, appears in orange, and carries a dot before it in the list.
It is not an average of anything. It does not measure playtime, sales or popularity: it measures whether we think the game is worth your time today, in the state it is in today. That is why it can change when the game changes.
Most entries do not have it, and that is deliberate: we only score what we play. An entry without our score is not a bad game, it is a game we have not yet earned the right to judge.
Critics score
It is the specialist press average, as collected by IGDB. We do not calculate it, we do not edit it and we do not speak through it: we show it because it is useful information, and saying where it comes from is more honest than hiding it.
It always comes with the number of reviews behind it, and that number is half the information: a 9 backed by 26 reviews and a 9 backed by one are not the same claim. That is why we only publish the score when at least four reviews back it. Below that the entry stays without a score, even if a number exists somewhere.
It is shown in grey, without the dot, and always labelled. When an entry has both, you will see them side by side with different names. Today most of the catalogue has neither, and we prefer that to filling the gap with something we cannot defend.
What we corrected
Until July 2026 the entry showed a single score labelled “WQ SCORE”. When we went to fix it we found something worse than we thought: that number did not come from any critic. It was produced by the agent that builds the entries, which was asked for an “editorial suggestion based on review consensus”. Of 103 entries, 101 had a number no source backed.
Those scores were deleted. We replaced them with the real critics score where one exists with enough backing, and with nothing where it does not. The catalogue went from 103 entries with a score to 29, and that drop is the correction: the other 74 never had a score that could be defended.