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Search improvement - Search by total reviews

A topic by pokeepoof created Apr 16, 2021 Views: 105
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I've been looking after decent games to play and enjoy but whenever i search by "Top rated" I see the same thing everytime it'll start off  with a few games with 1200+ reviews then declines to 600 and after about 10 seconds you'll see 150, 130, 83. Because these games have a lot of 5 stars this puts them at the top of search results for top rated but it entirely neglects games with 6000+ reviews because of the wide range of feelings an opinions that resulted in that total 6000, maybe the developer killed off their favourite character in a visual novel and now the game has a boat load of  1 star ratings because peoples feelings were hurt or made angry, maybe the person just didn't know what to rate it and went for the middle option of 3 and called it good whatever the reason isn't important, what is important is being able to search for games like these properly to me a game with 6000 reviews says one very big statement this game has content, hours upon hours of content to be played that people have enjoyed that to me suggests it's something worth checking out instead of something released a few months ago where you hit "not yet implemented" within an hour, while finding games that have been around awhile and are still updated with thousands of different reviews and ratings can take you about an hour to find.

My suggestion is to add a new additional search while leaving the others alone. This new search will allow you to search by the total reviews  from high to low and possibly low to high if you want to check the newest available. This should allow those games with 6000 reviews or even higher to be discovered because right now the only way to find them is either luck or it was suggested to you and for a site with so much to offer from so many different people and groups with different styles of storytelling, it's really poor to be unable to find them because the ratings vary so much from years of development that a game with 83 reviews with a couple hours of content is put higher in the search, infact its stupid

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