i was born in the 60s , no computers like we know them today, even in the 70s the pc that were available were crappy, you cant compare it to nowadays computers, mobiles and internet: we didnt have internet, which is so common today, but when i grew up, no internet, no social media, no facebook, nothing... only old tv and taperecorders, no cd/dvd no mp3...
But to be honest, i liked the 80-90 way better then the millenia, there is too much going on, to many changes, and most of these are unfortunately not for the good.

As for taxes, i have no idea about taxes, rental fees and insurances aswell, we had some classes at school : economy subjects, i do know how to buy things, i can count , read, and if i pay with lets say 10 euros for a 6.99 item i know exactly how much i should receive :D... 3.01 , thats 3 euros cause the cents are gone.

I had 3 subjects , and they were so boring... , lucky for me my other classes were better so i managed to get a diploma.

As for languages, my native language dutch is much harder then english, trust me, dont believe all those people or online adds/websites that tell you can learn Dutch very fast and sufficient, cause you cant', unless you are one of the few that have a natural way to master all foreign languages and become an interpreter.

We had german language classes aswell, lucky for the most students we were allowed to leave that one out cause german language is more complicated then english imho, so is french, i find that even harder to learn then german.
Anyway i grew up , and i can manage myself reasonably, i 'm not an Einstein but i can make myself understandable on the internet in english.
If you would have to give it a number in a range from 1 to 10 , i'd be in the middle... a 5.5 or so, just an average guy,
like most people out there.

My guess is the early low ratings are GOG regulars who haven't bought it and aren't even interested in that type of game in general, and are simply (and ineffectually) rating the game low because "it's another roguelike and I'm sick of those".
Some of the ratings -- low OR high -- might also be from people who had followed the Kickstarter campaign, and are expressing their feelings (positive or negative) about the developers, or their expectations for the game, or something.
In other words, who the hell knows. :)

maybe others do, but the: "rating the game low because "it's another roguelike and I'm sick of those".
statement does not en will never apply to me :D , i love more of the same, i love point and click games (classics but no fpp/3d versions or weird vectors)
i have some 3p games: Black Mirror 1,2,3 Moebius and more like these
I have some on steam: secret files: 4 games these are all of the same but i like them, i have Chronicles of Zerzura , its the same, but i like it, i bought AlternativA on steam (sales) and its again more of the same but i dont mind.

The graphics are different, the sounds and music are, the story is different. my favorites gametype is point and click
85% at least.

Good. Me neither. : )
There are games I own (here, even :P ) and which I have (in some cases) played for several hours that I've not yet rated, simply because I don't feel I've gotten far enough into them and/or figured them out well enough to be able to judge how good they are overall.

You may be interested to know that practically every time GOG has a sale (e.g. every Monday and every Friday), MaGog notices changes (up or down) in the ratings of many of the games that are on sale, usually within 24 hours of the sale start.

Which to me means that a significant number of people buy a game on sale, install it, play it for a few hours (or minutes) and then rush to post their rating on GOG. I am always amazed by this.

Works like clockwork on practically every sale.

Doesn't particularly surprise me, but I guess it is interesting. :)

Probably going to buy this tomorrow because I happen to like roguelikes :P

The artwork isn't terrible in my opinion either.

Sounds too nice to me. I'd take a bet on people seeing a game on sale, so they visit the games page and decide "I like what I see *clicks 5 stars*" or "naw, seems sucky *clicks 1 star*"

You may well be right. I may be too naive in thinking that people actually try the game before rating it.

I completely agree.

I no longer pay much attention to GOG's ratings and reviews. They are simply not dependable enough.

It's unfortunate, but there are also people who will review a game without trying it. Though such "reviews" usually involve some sort of controversy rather than being about the game itself. I'm sure there are even more people who will silently rate a game based on controversy surrounding it.

Luckily for me, game descriptions have "improved" immensely in recent months and they usually make it easy for me to decide.

Any game page containing the terms "procedurally generated", "open world", "high replayability", "sandbox", "never the same twice", etc., pretty much goes directly to the "no thank you" pile.

At this point, I feel like randomization and permadeath are the World War II of indie games.

An entire race seems dedicated to it. All the men look like voluptuous females.

That said I just think the devs got lazy and didn't draw any male sprites for that race.