Ratings

Getting Started

1. Go to the Recommendations page

   Start answering questions, see the full list of games, as well as all of your predicted ratings.

2. Go to Edit User Attributes to change your attribute selections

3. Create an account

   Optional. If you want your selections to save for the future when new games are added or new reviewers update games then you’ll want to create an account.  We only use this to store your game attribute selections. You can use your Facebook or Google account to sign up quickly.

4. Click on a game name in Your Recommendations to see the attributes that contributed to the rating.

5. If you’ve played one of the games before, you can enter what you actually thought of the game on a 1-10 scale.  Please do this if you can, it will allow us to improve the system going forward.

6. You can edit your attribute selections by visiting Edit User Attributes.

For Master Gamers

How to create your own game profiles.

About The Eclectic Gamer Ratings

With The Eclectic Gamer Ratings, I really wanted to create a system where you could get a board game rating that was personal to you.

I’ve had a problem with ratings of all kinds for a while. If you go on IMDB, you’ll see that almost every movie is rated between 7 and 8 just based on the way people rating things online on an out-of-10 rating system works.

Even then, I like a lot of “bad” movies, just because they’re fun, so normal rating systems don’t always show me the movies I like. I’ve always done much better having a friend tell me how they think I’ll like a movie, since they know my tastes.

So here’s how Eclectic Gamer Ratings work: the users here can be that friend. Rather than just giving a game a 1-10 rating, users can break it down by attributes. Do you like co-op games? Then Pandemic will have a higher score. Do you dislike games wit a lot of randomness? Fluxx will have a lower score. You enter how you feel about game attributes and then the scores will be customized to you.