An alternative to reviewing games on steam

Preferably the platform would be community driven rather than profit driven (which may make the data less trust worthy for me)

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    9 months ago

    I’d be more bothered by the closed sourcedness of the movies and games themselves, than of the reviewing venue. They’re still proprietary media products wherever they get reviewed. So I’d work on that first.

    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Are you open source ? I mean you as a person, do you give open access to all your datas by example ? If not, that bothers me. I mean how can you be a hardcore open source supporter, and not be open source too…

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I do like open source games, but that’s a very different and unrelated thing to this. Whether the reviewed game is open source does not matter too much from the review perspective.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    You can use KDE discover and GNOME software to read reviews , they use the same review database (ODRS), there is also flatstat.

    A decentralized option is librate which is still in development.

  • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Not open-source, but I was using Metacritic as an alternative to Steam. Unfortunately, they’ve severely degraded their UI in recent years so I started using GOG.