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The Sad Unusability of Video Game Reviews (bottomfeeder.substack.com)
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"So I was trying to write reviews of a bunch of hit indie games I played recently. Then I got overwhelmed by the pointlessness of video game reviews these days and had to take a long nap.

And, I mean, pro reviews are pointless, right? If a game has a big enough budget or following and isn’t actively on fire, it gets a 9. If it is a competently made but low-budget indie, like mine, it gets a 7. If you read the actual review (nobody does), it’s a collection of facts about the game you could easily get from watching the trailer. Throw in a couple of comments from the reviewer about whether they like this genre or not, mix in 3 or 4 ham-handed political comments, and you got a review! Hit send!"

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[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 26 points 14 hours ago

Or You Can Just Read Steam Reviews

Every indie dev at some point gets supermad about Steam reviews. However, 99 times out of 100, skimming the reviews on the game’s front page will tell you everything you need to know

And mostly read the negative one to see if there's any issue with the feature or lack thereof, or whether there's any performance issue or bug, anything you won't tolerate. Dev will tell you the stuff is good anyway. I rarely read from review site these day, and i find Yahtzee being very helpful in that he will be very enthusiastically tell you how some part of the game don't work, which is exactly what i'm looking for.

[-] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I usually just read 2 or 3 positive and 2 or 3 negative reviews and look at the % score of the game. It's all you need to know if a game is for you or not. Also, follow people who have similar taste to you, in my case, that's Force Gaming and Iron Pineapple, whatever they play and really like, there's a good chance I'll like it as well. On top of that, I now have the habit of playing Steam Next Fest demos as much as I can to discover new games.

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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