RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected
6 or more user votes. Below that it
returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote
breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five
“exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.
Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which
recovers 70
of the 157 games here that would
otherwise read as unrated. The rest have
no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or
unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there
is nothing to retrieve.
Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is
weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk
toward this set's mean of 3.72 in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so
a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where
it exists —
30 of these games have
one.
45
ranked (6+ votes)70
provisional (1–5 votes)42
never rated4,688 votes counted3.72 mean of ranked
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw
mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward
this set's mean of 3.72 in proportion to how
few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight
where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45
— the raw figure is shown under each score, and
sorting
by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.
Bars show how the votes split —
Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip.
A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a
breakdown RAWG suppresses.
8Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets5 Nov 2002 · Eurocom, KnowWonder, EA UK, Griptonite, Argonaut · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh4.05 4.11 raw398MC 74
11Syberia9 Jan 2002 · Microids, Anuman Interactive · PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Nintendo DS, macOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 23.93 3.94 raw811MC 82
102Dead to Rights3 Jun 2002 · Bandai Namco Entertainment, NAMCO, Torus Games, The Bitmap Brothers, Namco USA, Namco Hometek · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.61 3.47 raw36—
103Tomb Raider: The Prophecy12 Nov 2002 · Core Design, Ubi Soft Milan · Game Boy Advance3.60 2.83 raw6MC 66
104Star Wars Bounty Hunter19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, LucasArts Entertainment, Disney Interactive Studios · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.59 3.51 raw57MC 65