At least we're trying to break that spell here.

I play Neptunia... I don't really care about review scores lmao. I'll meme and joke about it, but I'm a variety type of gamer. Plus you have to play some mid games sometimes to be able to really appreciate the bangers.

Think Shika mentioned this before, but what is with the dislikes on Redfall lol. Always seem to be pretty harsh. Just not liking the tone I guess? 

Well, there are often limits to the budget that you can get as an indie studio. Their publishing partner is Focus Home, who to my knowledge have never funded a truly AAA game, just higher budget AA's. On top of that, their studio size is about 80 devs, definitely in the AA territory (though larger than the 40 devs that Compulsion had for We Happy Few at least, so it stands to reason that it did review higher than We Happy Few, 74 vs 63 average). Both were games that definitely drew AAA expectations from fans and critics for being Bioshock spiritual successors in a post-Bioshock Infinite market that has yet to see Bioshock 4 announced by 2K after 9+ years (even though Bioshock 4 has been in active development since 2018 they still haven't announced it). Because it has been 9+ years now without a Bioshock game, Bioshock fans are hungry for something similar, both critics and fans alike, so every time something similar to Bioshock is announced, the fans start hyping it and suddenly people have AAA Bioshock-like expectations even though these smaller indie studios can't possibly deliver on AAA expectations even with lots of staffing up and drumming up as much funding as they can.

Both Compulsion and Mundfish seem to have fallen into the trap of trying to deliver on those AAA Bioshock-like expectations, even though they knew they couldn't deliver a truly AAA game. They would have been better off playing down those AAA expectations and letting people know to expect a AA experience.

Skewed perception at its finest. 

Sure.

Just as saying "there are high reviewed games on GP" and "reviews don't matter anyway" in the same post.

Tunic, A Plagues Tale: Requiem, Halo Infinite, Flight Sim, Wasteland 3, Pentiment, Chained Echoes, Crusader King 3, Gears Tactic, Age of Empires, Grounded, and more. Clearly you don't have a grasp of what has released day 1 or likely what's on GP for that matter. 

Did you just come in here to pick a fight? Like what are you doing lol.

Might be hard for you to understand but not everything is black and white. 

I got this... 

Not a first party/now a multiplat, not a first party/multiplat, same old halo/no cultural impact, not a real game, multiplat/was made before they bought them, no impact, not first party, no idea what that is, RTS too hard so doesn't count, another RTS plus plays better on pc, GaaS/doesn't count. 

Done.