How we decide what you see first
Ranking on Gritiq isn't about who posts the most. It's about who's earned the right to be heard.
The core idea
Most review platforms rank by recency or by raw vote count. Both are easy to game. We do something different: reviews are surfaced based on a combination of reviewer reputation, review quality, and community helpfulness signals.
When you load a game page, the reviews at the top should be the ones most likely to help you decide. Not the ones written first. Not the ones from the loudest account.
What affects ranking
Reviewer reputation
Reviewers build a reputation score over time based on the quality and helpfulness of their past reviews. A high-reputation reviewer's new review starts with more visibility — because they've earned it.
Review quality
When a review is submitted, we assess it for depth and specificity — does it say something useful? Generic, one-line takes and suspected spam score lower. Detailed, structured reviews score higher.
Community helpfulness
Other gamers can mark reviews as helpful. These votes are a signal — not the only one, but a meaningful one. A review that consistently earns "helpful" marks will rise over time.
Recency
A great recent review can surface ahead of an older one — especially for games that have changed significantly since launch. We factor recency in, but it doesn't override quality.
How the formula works
When you choose Top Ranked on a game page, we score every review using three ingredients:
- Quality score — the AI-assessed depth and usefulness of the review (0–5 scale). This is the primary signal.
- Recency factor— a multiplier that starts at 1.0 when a review is posted and decays over time. A review from 3 months ago carries half the quality weight of an identical review written today. A year-old review carries about 6% of its original weight. Very old reviews don't disappear — they just move down.
- Helpfulness bonus— each "helpful" vote from the community adds a small bonus to the score. This lets reviews that the community finds genuinely useful stay competitive even as they age.
The result: a high-quality review written recently will surface at the top. An older review with lots of helpful votes can hold its position. A great new review from a first-time user can surface ahead of a mediocre review from a veteran.
What doesn't affect ranking
We don't sell placement. Developers, publishers, and studios cannot pay to have their game reviewed more favorably or to have critical reviews buried.
Having a large follower count or a long account history doesn't automatically make your reviews rank higher. A new reviewer who writes something genuinely insightful will surface ahead of an established account that phones it in.
How reputation is built
Reputation isn't assigned — it's earned. Every review you write contributes to your reputation score based on how it performs: quality at submission, helpfulness votes over time, and whether it consistently helps people make decisions.
There are no shortcuts. Review-bombing, coordinated voting campaigns, and fake accounts are all things we actively detect and penalize. If we catch it, the reviews are removed and the accounts are banned.
Still have questions?
We take ranking integrity seriously — if something seems wrong, tell us: hello@gritiq.com.