Strong opinions.
Actual receipts.
The joke can be exaggerated. The evidence can’t.
01. Listen to the players
We use Steam’s public review API to combine up to 100 helpful English reviews with up to 100 recent English reviews. Duplicate IDs and identical text are removed. This is a deliberately useful sample, not a random poll of everyone who plays.
02. Enough evidence first
A game needs at least 100 English Steam reviews and 40 distinct sample reviews with at least 80 characters before it enters the writing queue. New releases and Early Access games receive priority. Popular older games enter through Steam’s bestseller and most-played lists.
03. Write with a point of view
AI writes original, substantial English reviews using recurring praise and criticism. It does not pretend to have played the game. Expect blunt verdicts, sharper sarcasm and a few jokes that make sense to this game’s players. The humour comes from real mechanics, recurring frustrations and recognisable habits; it never supplies missing evidence. Positive and negative recommendations are read as text: a thumbs-up is not automatically unqualified praise.
04. Opinion is not proof
A complaint about cheating, hit registration or performance is a player’s report. We do not convert allegations into measured facts. Playtime adds context, not a guarantee of correctness. Very short reviews, memes, promotional text and unrelated rants do not count as substantive evidence during editorial review.
05. Keep the scores separate
Steam Players shows the positive percentage from the English Steam review query at research time. Critic Reviews shows the Metacritic aggregate supplied by Steam, with attribution and a link. Missing scores stay missing. We do not invent a critic score or mix it with player sentiment.
06. Leave a trail
Each review links to its supporting player reviews, shows the research date and preserves its evidence snapshot. Steam’s off-topic review-activity filter stays enabled. Articles remain available as new ones arrive. Updates preserve revision history. Store trailers are labelled accurately; a cinematic trailer is never presented as verified gameplay.
About this first edition
The site is independent and has no affiliation with Steam, Valve or Metacritic. It covers games listed on Steam; it does not claim to cover every console or storefront release. A bounded, recurring editorial queue builds coverage over time. Store metadata does not always include historical Early Access dates: we show unknown values honestly.