Player-Powered Scores: Ori Creator Unveils a New Review Aggregator

Thomas Mahler, lead developer of Moon Studios and director of No Rest for the Wicked, launched VideoGamesCritic, a score-aggregating site that weighs two-thirds of scores from players (via Steam reviews) and uses trust-based math to downweight critics and reflect game updates over time, claiming to reveal how players actually feel; critics argue the method exposes Mahler’s biases and simply shifts the bias from critics to players.