Terms Editorial independence All titles are invented

Terms of use

Reading these pages means accepting what follows. The publication is editorially independent, all game titles discussed here are invented for illustration, and nothing here is a warranty of any kind.

These terms govern your use of this website. They are written plainly because a document nobody can read protects nobody.

The titles discussed here

Every game named on this site is fictional, created to illustrate how a two-score review method works. Any resemblance to a real product, studio or publisher is unintended. The measurements, hour counts, mod tallies and breakage rates are constructed for the same purpose and should not be cited as findings about any real title.

Editorial independence

Nothing on this site is paid placement. No studio, publisher, storefront or mod author has any influence over what appears here, over the order in which entries are ranked, or over either of the two scores a game receives. No review copies are accepted and every title is bought at retail with the publication's own money.

What the two scores mean

Both numbers describe one specific version of one game on one machine at one moment. The shipped score describes a clean installation of a stated build. The modded score describes that build under a community load order assembled to the rules on the method page.

Neither number is a prediction. A load order that produced our second score may behave differently on other hardware, may break with the next official update, and may include mods whose authors have since stopped maintaining them. If you install anything described here, you are working from a snapshot rather than a guarantee.

Modifying games is at your own risk

This publication describes what community modifications do. It does not instruct you to install them and takes no responsibility if you do. Modifying a game may corrupt saves, may breach the terms under which you licensed that game, may affect access to online services, and may render a working installation unbootable. Those consequences are yours.

No warranty

The material here is provided as it is. No promise is made that it is complete, current or free of error, and the surveys in particular are explicitly described as provisional counts that have already reversed conclusions twice. Nothing on this site should be treated as professional or technical advice.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, this publication is not liable for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, anything published here — including damaged installations, lost progress, wasted time or purchasing decisions you regret.

Use of the material

You may read these pages, quote briefly from them with attribution to the publication, and share links to them. You may not republish substantial portions, present this material as your own, or reproduce the images, which were made for this publication and are not offered for reuse.

No accounts, no submissions

There is no registration, no comment facility and no submission mechanism on this site. Nothing here invites you to send material, and no unsolicited material of any kind will be published or acknowledged.

Changes

These terms may be revised. The version published at the moment you read a page is the version that applies to that reading.

Severability

If any provision above is held unenforceable, the remainder continues to apply unaffected.