PC Gamer and IGN reviews don't seem too good..

[Kyllin]

Don't shoot the messenger, LOL.

[The Former]

They rarely do.

[Shotagonist]

Can't spell Ignorant without IGN

[F A B L E D]

Both gave the game 7 out of 10. Which is pretty much the definition of good. Though not great.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Shotagonist:

Can't spell Ignorant without IGN

You also can't spell it without "no rant", yet rants tend to be quite ignorant these days... Completely unrelated observation, you're generally right about IGN.

In this case, the review is... odd. As someone mentioned, a great deal of criticism, yet a summary of "I far from dislike it" and a score of 7.0, which by IGN's own bar means quote,

7 - Good

Playing a Good game is time well spent. Could it be better? Absolutely. Maybe it lacks ambition, is too repetitive, has a few technical bumps in the road, or is too repetitive, but we came away from it happy nonetheless. We think you will, too.

So it's... hard to say if the reviewer thought it was good and was just playing devil's advocate, or if the reviewer thought it was bad but didn't want to rock the boat with the score.

[Fṛee]

We are not supposed to shoot them ? ...oh *start to hide the body*

[AD ReM]

Sorry for my poor English :c
IGN is in my opinion one of the least reliable portals, apart from the fact that they often praise games that are at most average, they often rate good games badly, for me this portal has long ended :P

[Comrade]

Agreed with guy above.

[Janfin]

Originally posted by AD ReM:

Sorry for my poor English :c
IGN is in my opinion one of the least reliable portals, apart from the fact that they often praise games that are at most average, they often rate good games badly, for me this portal has long ended :P

+1

[MatusFene]

doesn't take any IGN reviews seriously, although I think this game may have an average of 8 from what I'm seeing on the internet.

[Oscar the Ham Bandit]

You're talking about the franchises themselves, right?

[Oscar the Ham Bandit]

I think 7 out of 10 is the highest score either company is allowed to give without additional financial motivation.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

I think it will take a couple of patches and maybe some DLC for Humankind to reach it's full potential.

[SemtexMan47]

Expected higher scores from these big sites.

Even though the reviews aren't well written having played the betas I'm inclined to agree with the overall scores. The end game changes being kind of meh was expected. The game ticks off most of the 4x boxes but could stand to be more innovative. Future expansions may help here.

[Da O.G. Mexican]

Just saying both as others have said their review literally said its good(see below)

PC Gamer gave it a 71% which by their metrics is:
70%-79% A good game that’s definitely worth playing. We like it. Eg, Life is Strange, Planet Coaster

IGN gave it a 7 which by their metrics is:
7 - Good
Playing a Good game is time well spent. Could it be better? Absolutely. Maybe it lacks ambition, is too repetitive, has a few technical bumps in the road, or is too repetitive, but we came away from it happy nonetheless. We think you will, too.

[Rileyyy]

There is nothing wrong with 7/10 lol. 7/10 is still way above average. Stop crying