Lately I've noticed that there's a negative ratio on pretty much all user reviews of games. The vast majority of them have more downvotes than upvotes. Occasionally I see one with equal votes, but I can't remember the last time I read one that had mostly upvotes. This is the case with basically every game.

Is it possible that some bot is auto downvoting everything?

Because humans are weird.

Because your average GOG user is a weirdo who finds something ultra-specific they hate about the game's developers/publishers (and never has anything to do with the game itself) and then spam angry 1-star reviews.

It's sad because this in combination with GOG low user count means that's it's increasingly difficult to even get a general feel if a game is good or not, there's just not enough reviews to form a picture. You just need to go to Steam to really find out what the general consensus on the game is.

It's also not good for GOG's public look when the first thing new users see of this store are weirdos spamming weirdo reviews.

This is simply the way of the world now. Everything is polarising every individual. Any discussion is black or white, no in between. Reasoned argument with clear examples no longer holds sway, only what is popular amongst the factions.
Oh, and yes, there are lots of bits active on here, gog ones or otherwise. Some are clear to see, others more complicated. TBH I wouldn’t trust the review system, or the forums where mass downvoting happens. Simply go look at some gameplay footage and see if it might appeal.

Just browsed a few games in my library and most reviews have more up- than down-votes.

Are you sure you didn't just misinterpret "(24 of 28 users found this helpful)" as 24 up vs. 28 down, rather than 24 vs. 4?

@jekehu, do you have any examples? Most of the games I'm interested in aren't downvoted. The only thing I could find is that Gog has a new tendency to release a lot of anime games/novels, which may upset some people.

@nightcraw1er.488, That is not true, but your comment is exactly what you are talking about. An extreme position without any room or mercy for all the people around you.

99%

Checked a random game; reviews look normal. Please provide examples.

probably the same trolls who dvote comments
i bet a few are here too

Are you sure you haven't sorted the games by "Most Critical"? That would put all the negative reviews at the top. I just picked 5 games at random (Bioshock, Amnesia TDD, Doom, Deus Ex and The Talos Principle) and they are absolutely fine. No wall of negatives and hardly any "one liners".

Who cares, let's talk about how they just screwed up the review page itself.
It only displays 5 reviews now per page, making it significantly more difficult to look at more reviews, and impossible to search the full body of reviews.

1 step back, 2 steps back, gog's motto.

I'm grateful because it can fuel our bitterness on the forum

I HAET YOU GOG

5 per page is probably the right default, given that many people who'll look at that page will never read any reviews, so making the page needlessly long with many reviews would only have negative effects.

But of course it's trivial to change that number through the provided control to show up to 60 reviews per page...

Wasn't there some bug a while ago where the numbers of helpful versus unhelpful had been reversed? (Or am I just imagining that?)