What is OpenCritic?
OpenCritic is a review aggregator website focused on video games. It was launched in 2015 as a response to issues with the leading aggregator at the time, Metacritic. OpenCritic aims to provide more transparent, timely, and comprehensive review aggregation for both gamers looking for critical consensus and industry professionals looking to track critical reception.
Here are some key features of OpenCritic:
- Scrapes review scores, text reviews, release info, and other metadata for video games from over 75 gaming publications and websites.
- Provides at-a-glance aggregated review scores from top critics and all critics for each game.
- Detailed critic reviews include snippets from the original review text along with links back to the full review.
- Weighting system that gives more value to reviews from publications known for quality and reliability.
- Integrates with popular gaming clients like Steam and GOG Galaxy to show OpenCritic scores.
- Timely coverage of both major AAA and smaller indie game releases.
- Public API for developers and publishers to access data.
Overall, OpenCritic aims to improve transparency in games journalism while providing the most accurate critical assessment of both major and minor video game releases. With over 200,000 games indexed and growing daily traffic, it has emerged as a go-to aggregator for gamers and industry professionals.
IGDB.com, Games Finder, Metacritic, Glitchwave, ratehouse, RAWG, GameRankings, whatoplay, iPhone Quality Index, Gamerate, vrgamecritic, GameStats, Pleb Game Reviews are some alternatives to OpenCritic.