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Our guide to a world of awesome game reviews

Game reviews are important. They help developers get direct feedback on their games, and as gamers they help us make an informed purchase or share our thoughts. Writing a quality review carries a certain responsibility: to do good by both the game and the community. Striking that perfect balance is a challenge, a delicate art that we want to promote.

Next time you're about to write a review, you'll see our simple suggestions for crafting a top-notch review. You can always revisit them from the review form as well.

Focus on your in-game experience: if you have general feedback or need tech support, contact us!
Avoid politics and drama: let the game stand on its own merits.
Critique responsibly: whether it's positive or negative, a great review should be helpful and informative.

We hope that these three essential guidelines will help make GOG.com reviews even more awesome than they already are, but we also don't want to stop there!



CONTEST: REVIEW OF THE MONTH

Together with our friends at ROCCAT we venture to encourage and reward the best reviews on GOG.com – and to that end, we are introducing our monthly Review of the Month contest!

Submit your review for any game (or games!) released on GOG.com between May 1 and May 31, 2016. This time around, the grand prize is the RENGA gaming headset, courtesy of ROCCAT.

Here's what you need to know:

—Once you've posted your review, submit it for consideration by also quoting it in this post's forum thread.
—Keep the review guidelines in mind. A good review can be both entertaining and informative, it can be brief or extensive. It doesn't need to be positive in its overall assessment of the game - as long as it's eloquent and fair (or hilarious), it has our attention.
—All eligible reviews must be about games that have joined the GOG.com catalog within the previous month. For this first phase of the contest eligible reviews shall concern games that came out on GOG.com between May 1 and May 31, 2016.
—Winners will be announced at the beginning of every month with the start of next month's contest. The first round of winners will be announced in early July, giving you guys a bit of extra time to fine-tune your entries. Remember that if you're not happy with the shape of a review you've already posted, you can always contact our support team to rectify that.
—The best review of each month will win a sweet piece of gaming gear, courtesy of the good people at ROCCAT. Any runners-up will receive honorable mentions and one $9.99 code each, to be redeemed at GOG.com.

Let's celebrate the reviews that hit the nail on the head — the most constructive, informative, or fun to read. Grab your keyboards and make some magic happen, GOGers!
Post edited May 31, 2016 by maladr0Id
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mrkgnao: Post it under a different game.
Then start a contest thread to see who finds it first.
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zeogold: Tempting.
Edit: Oh, would you look at that, it made it. 'Bout time.
Posting your Braid review on The Witness's game card would've been funnier. :P
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yogsloth: Is this another one of those GOG contests where no winners are ever selected and the contest thread just quietly gets dropped?
I'm an American. I can sue.
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Marioface5: Nope, in the post it mentions contacting Support to change a review you aren't happy with.
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tfishell: ...GOG, let users edit their own reviews already.
This! I don't like my reviews to be set in stone. There's always something to correct and it would help people to delete obsolete info, e.g. after serious issues got fixed. If it's because of the votes for helpfulness, I have to admit that I couldn't care less, since half of the reviews are obviously fake anyway. I consider them sponsored by devs or publishers and so are lots of votes for helpfulness.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by DeMignon
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yogsloth: Is this another one of those GOG contests where no winners are ever selected and the contest thread just quietly gets dropped?
For anyone that's wondering what he's referring to:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/contest_jailhouse_stock_e9262

It's been months and GOG haven't actually contacted the winner. (As far as I know)
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yogsloth: Is this another one of those GOG contests where no winners are ever selected and the contest thread just quietly gets dropped?
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zeogold: I'm an American. I can sue.
I'm a seamstress. I can sew.
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zeogold: I'm an American. I can sue.
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mrkgnao: I'm a seamstress. I can sew.
Sew/Sue all the things.
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zeogold: I'm an American. I can sue.
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mrkgnao: I'm a seamstress. I can sew.
Although you're a bit mysterious, I'm sure you can fix my pants.
...or sew it seams.
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zeogold: I'm an American. I can sue.
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mrkgnao: I'm a seamstress. I can sew.
Can Sue sue or sew?
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mrkgnao: I'm a seamstress. I can sew.
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dtgreene: Can Sue sue or sew?
Both if she lives in America.
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Frankly, it really doesn't matter what rules you put in place. There will always be jagoffs who post a pro- or anti-gamergate rant in lieu of a review, people who offer nothing but complaints about their struggle to get Crysis running on a Voodoo2, or those who post some untranslatable idiomatic folktale in inscrutable moon runes. Unless you're willing to review and curate everything, reviews are going to suck. The internet gives everyone a voice, and most everyone is a gibbering cretin at least some of the time.

Please take this post as a review of the Review Guidelines post, and consider it for an award.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by WiseLearnedMan
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dtgreene: Can Sue sue or sew?
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omega64: Both if she lives in America.
nice one: sew is also used when taylors repair or create clothing with a thread and needle
sue: like i see you at court, and you have been sued , so sue should probably get a good lawyer.

sue is being sued over a thing, a tresspassing, a robbery, or maybe because she insulted a high placed member from a government, and thats why sue was sued so people would see sue in court over some things certain people might haven seen , while sue was messing around while sewing some things.
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omega64: Both if she lives in America.
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gamesfreak64: nice one: sew is also used when taylors repair or create clothing with a thread and needle
sue: like i see you at court, and you have been sued , so sue should probably get a good lawyer.

sue is being sued over a thing, a tresspassing, a robbery, or maybe because she insulted a high placed member from a government, and thats why sue was sued so people would see sue in court over some things certain people might haven seen , while sue was messing around while sewing some things.
Yes, thank you for explaining the joke.
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zeogold: Edit: Oh, would you look at that, it made it. 'Bout time.
Should I point out the typos, so that you could contact support to have them fixed?
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WiseLearnedMan: Frankly, it really doesn't matter what rules you put in place. There will always be jagoffs who post a pro- or anti-gamergate rant in lieu of a review, people who offer nothing but complaints about their struggle to get Crysis running on a Voodoo2, or those who post some untranslatable idiomatic folktale in inscrutable moon runes. Unless you're willing to review and curate everything, reviews are going to suck. The internet gives everyone a voice, and most everyone is a gibbering cretin at least some of the time.

Please take this post as a review of the Review Guidelines post, and consider it for an award.
Decent grammar, although a strange variant or misspelling of "jagoff". Overall quality analysis with sharp undertones of satire, with appropriate grammer. However, it could use some additional length as well as more in-depth commentary at large.
Review score: 7.5/10
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zeogold: Edit: Oh, would you look at that, it made it. 'Bout time.
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mrkgnao: Should I point out the typos, so that you could contact support to have them fixed?
It's "raw" reviewing. What all the cool kids do these days. You old people just don't understand avant-garde literary art.

....although yeah, if you see a typo, I'd probably appreciate being able to fix that.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by zeogold
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Flaose: I contest might help a little, but I think the best thing GOG.com could do to improve the quality of reviews would be to limit them to games that are you actually own on GOG.
People have been calling for this for ages :)