IncGamers uses an ‘out of ten' scoring system to provide readers with the most accurate representation of a game's quality as possible. We feel this allows us to differentiate between scores clearly and is the best way to communicate our views to our readers.

Our commitment to you is that we play test all of our reviewed games as thoroughly as possible before writing or publishing reviews, or arriving at a final score. In some instances, this can result in reviews being posted after a game's release. (This may happen if a publisher has been slow to provide us with review code, for example.)

What we will never do is post a review of a game that we feel we have not tested sufficiently.

Unless an incorrect rating has been awarded through human or technical error, we never alter a game's review score after initial publication. We hold ourselves accountable for scoring games correctly and, as such, do not publish reviews unless we are sure a rating has been awarded fairly and accurately.

Scores are generally determined by the writer assigned to review the game. On occasion we will debate a score amongst ourselves before coming to a final verdict in order to maintain consistency throughout our entire review catalogue.

If a game has changed radically since its initial release we may decide to follow up our original review with a re-review. Such a step may be taken with games that change over time (for example, MMOs), games that have seen major overhauls through patches and/or downloadable content and launches of special editions or bundles (i.e. The Orange Box ).

Ratings breakdown:

10/10 - Essential
9/10 - Outstanding
8/10 - Great
7/10 - Good
6/10 - Better than average
5/10 - Average
4/10 - Below average
3/10 - Bad
2/10 - Awful
1/10 – Cancer inducing