ake the test, get placed into a Gamer House, and find the next critical hit from users with similar tastes
BRIDGEWATER, NJ – March 23, 2023 – Crit-Rate, the first-ever video game recommendation platform delivering calibrated scores based on gamer personality traits, makes its official debut today at PAX East 2023. Press and industry veterans with nearly 20 years combined experience and founders of media outlet The Zero Review running from 2009 to 2018, Justin Chou and Justin Scerbo, want to make finding your next game easier!
A robust digital recommendation engine powering Crit-Rate aims to provide video game suggestions like trusted friends. A pool of analytical data is first gathered from a detailed personality test about how the user enjoys video games, including challenge preferences, problem solving processes, and even what immerses them.
Users are then sorted into Houses based on these dimensions. Once their profile is made, users can explore their House to find highly curated recommendation scores from other gamers with similar preferences and playing tastes.
The most renowned, popular, and high quality games aren’t always the correct fit for everyone. Crit-Rate assists users in finding the right game for them by focusing solely on “fit,” rather than quality, through the aggregated ratings of like-minded gamers. The unique score given to each game is read not as percentage of quality, but the likelihood that this game will be a critical hit for the user. Hence Crit-Rate.
Key Features
- Detailed personal survey about each users’ gaming preferences, motivations, and quirks
- Robust matching system uniting individuals of similar gaming tastes based on the results of their personality test
- Video game recommendation scores that account for a games compatibility with a user’s tastes
- Connect with each like-minded individuals on Gamer House message boards, leaderboards, most anticipated game discussions, and more
“We’ve been gamers our entire lives, and our best memories were finding and sharing games with our close friends,” said Justin Scerbo, co-founder, Crit-Rate. “Back in the day we’d sit at the lunch table talking about the games we rented or played at a friend’s house that we couldn’t get enough of, and hearing that from a friend was the best vote of quality we could get. With Crit-Rate, we wanted to recapture those feelings in an innovative and exciting new way.”
“It’s a difficult feat to find the right game for specific individuals with all the varying opinions coming from different people with varying personalities,” said Justin Chou, co-founder, Crit-Rate. “Crit-Rate helps cut through that noise by taking each user’s individual tastes into account, and giving a more nuanced perspective of a game from the eyes of players who share their same interests and motivations.”
The Crit-Rate servers are now live in North America via the official site. For more information, please visit Crit-Rate’s official website and join the community on Twitter and YouTube for the latest updates.
About Crit-Rate
Crit-Rate is the genesis of more than 8 years of hard work and understanding of the game review landscape. The platform seeks to bring like-minded gamers together by providing the tools for the most accurate and relatable recommendations based on user personality surveys.
For more information, visit the Crit-Rate website and connect with the community on Twitter.
