There's a new website created by the designer of the Ori games, Thomas Mahler. It's proposed as "The one source of truth for gamers."
The site aggregates scores from Metacritic and OpenCritic, but the goal is to include user scores and Steam reviews, with user scores having greater weight.
"My main problem with the existing aggregators: Their scores tell you how the press felt about a game, not how players did," Thomas wrote on X.
What's really got the gaming community talking, and what I'm ultimately going to comment on, is that the site also creates a "trust score" for all websites and content creators that review games.
"Every outlet and creator gets a trust score based on one question: When they reviewed a game, did players end up agreeing? You can see who consistently calls games the way players see them, and who doesn't. Again, simple and fair," Thomas explains.
This is a fundamentally broken concept. Reviewers and critics cannot predict what you will think. We can have a pulse on your sentiments—for example, we all understood how people would receive Highguard after its Game Awards showing—but to account for the variety of people who will play a game, or at the very least, try a game? That's an impossible standard.
