The Nexzy Players score is what real players think of a game, out of 10. Players rate five things, the score shows once 10 people have rated, and ratings that look automated or coordinated don't count until a person has checked them. The critics score next to it comes from published reviews.
Anyone with a Nexzy account and a verified email (the same account as the Nexzy app). You get one rating per game and can edit or remove it any time. Ratings open when the game launches.
Each rating is five quick scores from 1 to 5, weighted like this:
| Fun | 35% | How fun it is to actually play |
| Performance | 20% | Frame rate, bugs, load times |
| Value | 15% | Worth what you paid |
| Look and sound | 15% | Visuals, audio, style |
| Story | 15% | Skippable: if a game has no story, its share moves to Fun |
Those combine into one score on a 1 to 10 scale. A 1 on everything is a 1, a 3 on everything is 5.5, and a 5 on everything is a 10. Players also say which platform they played on and roughly how many hours.
The score shows once 10 players have rated. Until then you'll see how many more ratings it needs.
It starts from a neutral 7.0, counted as if 10 players had given that, so a handful of early ratings can't swing it to a 10 or a 1. As more people rate, their ratings take over completely.
Once a game has 40 or more ratings, the highest 5% and lowest 5% are left out, so the most extreme takes in either direction don't pull the average.
Accounts less than 7 days old count at half weight.
Players recommend: the Players score is 8.0 or higher with at least 20 ratings.
Critics and players disagree: the two scores are 1.5 points or more apart.
Day One reviewer: the rating came in during the first 72 hours after launch.
Settled: 7 days after launch, once there are at least 25 ratings, we lock in that day's score as the launch verdict. That's what score predictions are checked against. The live score keeps updating after that.
It's the average of published critic reviews collected by IGDB, shown out of 10. It isn't a Nexzy rating, and we show how many reviews it's based on.
Ratings that look automated, rushed or coordinated are held for a person on our team to check. A held rating stays visible but doesn't count toward the score until it's cleared.
If a game suddenly gets far more ratings than usual, its score pauses while we look into it. The page says when a score is paused, and the score stays where it was until we're done.
Written text is checked automatically. If yours is hidden, your rating still counts. Moderators can remove ratings that break our community guidelines.
Nexzy team accounts can leave ratings, but they are labeled and never count toward any score.
You can remove your rating whenever you like. Deleting your Nexzy account deletes all of your ratings and written reviews with it. Questions? Email [email protected].
These rules apply on the website and in the app, and may be updated as we learn. Changes to how scores are calculated are noted here.