Replace Metacritic user ratings with percent of positive reviews on Steam

theMetriusz

Metacritic user ratings are extremely untrustworthy. A lot of games are being randomly review bombed by people who never even played them. I suggest replacing them with percent of positive reviews on Steam in places such as the Games tab and only use them as a fallback in case the game is not available on Steam.

PoobahGorg

I would love to have this as an option.

TomaszKane

Why not get both?
User Meta + Steam revs?

Rol11

Another problem is, that the change between the setting of Steam reviews from 'positive' to 'very positive' doesn't change the % settings. In both cases, the range stays from 80% - 100%. Can anyone tell me to whom this "bug" can be addressed? (For me this is quite important, because a fairly good Steam review is the main criterion to buy a game, therefore I would like to narrow this limits)

remike

Rol11

AFAIK

positive ranges from 80-100
very positive ranges from 80-95

The only difference between the two is the number of Steam reviews. But you're right - changing between the two has no impact.
We will probably have to improve it in a way that the correlation between the button and slider is removed. You either choose a posivite/very positive option or you choose a percentage.

remike

Rol11 Another problem is, that the change between the setting of Steam reviews from 'positive' to 'very positive' doesn't change the % settings. In both cases, the range stays from 80% - 100%. Can anyone tell me to whom this "bug" can be addressed? (For me this is quite important, because a fairly good Steam review is the main criterion to buy a game, therefore I would like to narrow this limits)

This should be solved in the latest update https://gg.deals/announcement/new-filters-on-ggdeals-new-ways-to-narrow-down-your-search/

GodKilla

I'm not sure Steam reviews are more reliable though (reminds me of the NBA 2K20 review bombing, it was a top game in the 'Horror' category after).
However some good points are, it is required to actually own a game to leave a review on Steam and there are many games on Steam without reviews on Metacritic, but there are many games on gg.deals that are not on Steam, either.
I would suggest both as well or maybe also OpenCritic. Could be individual search filters for each or total average.

Interesting enough in the Steam library you can sort by Metacritic score, but not by Steam reviews.

Rol11

remike: Great! Soon, the search on GG-deals will reach perfection then. You guys at GG-deals are doing an excellent job, congratulation and thank you for this information!