Steam lets anyone review, so naturally there will be bot farms gaming the system. individual reviews are not useful, but aggregating them can be. look for trends in the negative and positive reviews and ignore the overall score.
for instance, you can tell if a recent patch broke something by looking at the most recent reviews. You can also tell how much of your time the game demands by looking for people complaining about grind or praising it for "tons of content".
Steam also differentiates between all reviews and the most recent, as well as lets you see review trends over time in a graph, which can help you detect anything artificial happening.
IMO, Steam has the best reviewing system and I wish it was adapted for other things as well.
Steam lets anyone review, so naturally there will be bot farms gaming the system. individual reviews are not useful, but aggregating them can be. look for trends in the negative and positive reviews and ignore the overall score.
for instance, you can tell if a recent patch broke something by looking at the most recent reviews. You can also tell how much of your time the game demands by looking for people complaining about grind or praising it for "tons of content".
Steam also differentiates between all reviews and the most recent, as well as lets you see review trends over time in a graph, which can help you detect anything artificial happening.
IMO, Steam has the best reviewing system and I wish it was adapted for other things as well.