Stats

Every figure states its sample size. Where the sample is too thin to mean anything, this shows that instead of a colour.

Critic agreement

Mean difference in normalised score, per pair

Blue: the row scores lower than the column. Red: higher. Hatched cells have fewer than 8 shared reviews and are not scored.

	Tim	Greg	Blessing	Andy	Mike	Roger	Barrett	Parris
Tim Gettys	—	+0.00	+0.05	+0.03	n=1	+0.09	+0.06	·
Greg Miller	-0.00	—	+0.04	+0.04	+0.00	n=5	n=7	-0.06
Blessing Adeoye Jr.	-0.05	-0.04	—	+0.00	-0.02	+0.05	+0.00	n=5
Andy Cortez	-0.03	-0.04	-0.00	—	n=3	n=4	n=6	n=2
Mike Howard	n=1	+0.00	+0.02	n=3	—	n=3	n=1	n=3
Roger Pokorny	-0.09	n=5	-0.05	n=4	n=3	—	n=2	n=2
Barrett Courtney	-0.06	n=7	+0.00	n=6	n=1	n=2	—	n=1
Parris Lilly	·	+0.06	n=5	n=2	n=3	n=2	n=1	—

Only 14 of 73 critic pairs share enough reviews to compare. Most of this grid is deliberately blank — a full colour field here would be noise dressed as insight.

Score trend by year

Mean score given, out of 10

9.0

8.0

6.9

7.9

7.2

8.3

7.9

8.1

7.6

8.1

8.2

The scale changed in May 2024. Earlier years use a 1–5 scale normalised to /10, whose floor is 2 rather than 0 — so the early years read slightly high.

Most divisive titles

Title	Scores	Mean	Spread
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor	3	8.00	2.00
Mafia: The Old Country	3	5.17	1.89
Avatar: The Way of Water	5	8.40	1.67
Pragmata	3	6.83	1.53
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth	5	8.00	1.41
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure	7	7.07	1.40
Ninja Gaiden 4	3	6.67	1.26
Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core Reunion	4	5.75	1.26
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II	4	7.50	1.23
Elden Ring	3	9.33	1.16
Nintendo Switch 2	8	7.75	1.13
Avowed	4	8.00	1.08
Starfield	8	7.38	1.03
Marvel's Spider-Man 2	4	9.50	1.00
Horizon Forbidden West	5	9.60	0.89

Minimum 3 scores. Spread is the standard deviation across critics — the higher it is, the more they disagreed.