the changelog

Your recommendations now lead with underdogs: you are placed among twelve kinds of player learned from everyone's rankings, and the shelf shows games your kind loves far more than everyone else does, that few people here have ranked at all.

The taste twin picks are still there, one tab over on the recommendations page, and the dashboard falls back to them while your kind has no underdogs for you yet.

The live stats page now counts games that five or more people have ranked, as its own chart next to ranked games, so you can watch the consensus grow next to the raw total.

The press and let's play shelves on a game page are one row each now, three picks drawn from everything we have on the game, so a well covered game shows a different three from time to time.

Game pages now have a "let's plays" shelf: videos of people playing the game, with the channel named on every tile, next to what the press wrote about it.

The power search has a second library switch: "games i haven't really played" keeps only what you own with under an hour on the clock, for digging the backlog you forgot you bought.

Every ranking is a real table now: most loved, most hated, most controversial, most duelled and the per tag, genre and year rankings read column by column for screen readers and for anything else parsing the page. Nothing looks different.

A game page now opens with its score on a lit readout: what the number means, how far the bar runs and where that lands the game, all in one panel.

The home page is the machine now: a switched-on hero with the duel loop running beside it, and all four community boards behind one high score table you flip between.

New look, everywhere: square corners, hard drop shadows, stamped mono labels and segmented bars. Both sites are built like an arcade cabinet instead of a dashboard.

New browse page: one front door to every way the rankings can be cut, by tag, by genre, by release year and by community board, reachable from the header on every page.

Every page now ships browser security headers: no clickjacking, no content-type sniffing, and referrers trimmed on the way out.

Removed the third-party key-shop links from game pages. The only store we point at is Steam.

The FAQ now answers the awkward question directly: yes, the person behind the site released a game on Steam, it is ranked like every other game, and his account is excluded from its numbers.

Game pages say how fresh their numbers are, so a score nobody has duelled in weeks no longer looks like it was measured this morning.

A game page now headlines the tag that actually describes the game ("the #1 CRPG of 2023") instead of whichever niche list it happens to top.

Rebuilt the game page around what people come for: the score and what it means first, the charts and shelves below, all of it readable on a phone.

Game pages link out to articles and videos written about the game.

Press widgets: any site can now embed a game's community verdict as a badge, a bar or a score card, updated hourly. The how-to lives on the press page.

Scores read the same everywhere now: "beats 87%" on the boards, on game pages, in your ranking and on your taste twins.

Reorganised the home page and the footer so the leaderboards, the best-by lists and the collections are reachable from anywhere.

The public stats page groups its numbers into ranges that actually say something instead of a long even ladder.

"Similar games you own" now leans on what the whole community pairs together, not just on shared Steam tags, so the shelf surfaces games that play alike rather than games that are labelled alike.

Links out to Steam are tagged as coming from here, so developers can see the traffic in their own dashboard.

Game reports for developers, publishers and journalists: a written PDF plus every underlying table as CSV, all of it aggregated so no single player is identifiable.

Redesigned the stats page: the charts, the live duel feed and the retention curve each finally sit where you would look for them.

Search suggestions keep up with your typing instead of flickering between results.

"Your taste, wrapped": a written portrait of what your ranking says about you, generated from your whole scored list, that you can save as a share card.

Reworked the profile page. Your top games, your taste and your stats now sit on one page instead of scattered across three.

Shared links now come with a proper preview image for the game, the profile, the matchup or the board behind them.

Everything loads faster, above all the leaderboards, the best-by lists and the game pages.

DLC, soundtracks, demos, tools and other non-games are kept out of the lists, the rankings and the duels.

Vulnerability scanners hammering the site with WordPress and phpMyAdmin guesses get a cheap dead end instead of a full page, so the noise no longer slows anyone down.

A design pass over the whole site: the same spacing, colours and cards everywhere, so the pages finally look like one product instead of a dozen.

Achievements: receipts for what you have actually done here, starting with your very first duel.

A taste breakdown that names the tags and genres you consistently rank above the rest, and the ones you quietly bury.

Mute a game to keep it out of your own duels. Personal, reversible, and it never touches the game's public score.

The duel arena got stakes, a run board and live toasts, so a session of duelling reads like a run instead of a form.

Rebuilt the dashboard around the loop: duel first, everything else one click away.

Coverage and accuracy: see how much of your library is actually ranked and how settled that order is, and sweep the rest in one mode.

Hardened the Steam login. The "something went wrong" screen after a slow or retried login is gone.

Power search: stack tags, exclusions and release years over the ranked catalogue, then reorder it by love, hate, controversy or your own taste neighbours.

Adult-only titles and non-game software no longer show up in lists, search or duels.

While your library imports you can already watch it fill up instead of staring at a spinner.

A features page that lays out everything the site does, top to bottom.

Game pages show which games you already own are closest to the one you are looking at, by tags and by taste.

Players who hide their playtime on Steam can take part too, instead of being locked out of voting.

The duels on the home page pick smarter matchups for people who are not signed in.

A most-recently-duelled feed, so you can see what the community is arguing about right now.

Boosting: fans and developers can put a game into the King of the Hill spot on the home page for a while.

Verified developers can be attached to their own games and answer the ideas people file for them.

Each site gets its own favicon and social preview, so tabs and shared links stop looking identical.

A public stats page: how many people are here, what they do, and what it costs.

Every page is now findable: sitemaps and proper titles and descriptions across the site.

Delete your account yourself, in two clicks, and everything attached to it goes with it.

Legal notice and privacy policy: who runs this, hosted in the EU, and what happens to your data.

Write up the feature or fix a game is missing, read what everyone else has filed, and discuss it in the thread.

Vote on ideas, so developers can see what their players actually want first.

Sort and filter a game's ideas by type, status and popularity.

The home page leads with what is trending right now rather than what shipped last.

A dashboard for your own account: your library, your contributions, your settings.

Missing a game? Add it yourself and it gets pulled in from Steam.