About CriticMeter
A “review the reviewer” site for video games. Readers vote on whether individual critic reviews match their own take. Votes aggregate upward — per outlet, per game, per author — so over time it gets clearer who the audience agrees with most.
How it works
Read reviews
Browse reviews from 12 gaming outlets — IGN, Eurogamer, GameSpot, and more. Each review shows the critic's score and a snippet.
Vote agree or disagree
Did the review match your take on the game? One vote per review. Change your mind any time.
See alignment emerge
Votes aggregate into per-outlet and per-author audience-alignment scores. Over time, patterns reveal which outlets match your taste.
Methodology
Every review with at least 1 active votes gets a per-review alignment % — the share of votes that agreed with the critic. Reviews below the threshold show raw vote counts but no headline percentage.
Outlet-level alignment rolls up across every qualifying review from that outlet. Author pages work the same way. Outlets that don't give numeric scores (Polygon, Eurogamer, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun) are included — their verdicts are categorized and alignment is computed identically.
Voting & credits
Anyone can browse. Voting requires a free account — magic-link login, no passwords. On any review card, click agree or disagree. Clicking the same button again undoes your vote. Clicking the opposite flips it. One effective vote per review per account.
You start with 20 agree and 20 disagree credits. Each side refills by 5 at UTC midnight, up to 20 per side. Undoing a vote refunds the credit. The two buckets are independent.
Why credits? They stop a single account from voting one direction across hundreds of reviews. We'd rather force balance than silently throttle ordinary users.
Privacy & data
We collect the minimum necessary to make voting work: your email (for magic-link login), your votes, and a hashed IP at vote time (retained 90 days for anti-abuse). Session cookies are HTTP-only, secure, SameSite=Lax.
We do not use third-party tracking, fingerprinting, or analytics. No name, phone number, social-media identifiers, or browsing history is collected.
Under GDPR, you can access, correct, delete, restrict, port, or object to processing of your personal data. Account deletion removes your email and all votes. Email privacy@criticmeter.com for data requests.
Beta
Games appear as outlets in our roster review them. If you can't find a game, it likely hasn't been reviewed by an outlet we cover yet.
Aggregates are noisy at the start. As the vote pool grows, alignment stabilizes. A 4-vote alignment reads differently from a 400-vote one — that's why the threshold exists.
Contact
Questions or feedback — hello@criticmeter.com
Privacy and data requests — privacy@criticmeter.com