How to Rate Games on IGN
While it’s not quite over yet, 2023 has certainly been an incredible year for game releases. Whether we look back on it as one of the greatest years in gaming history remains to be seen, but there’s a good chance we’ll be talking about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur’s Gate 3, Metroid Prime Remastered, Alan Wake 2, Diablo IV, Street Fighter 6, and the Resident Evil 4 remake for years to come. We’ve given four games a 10 this year, and a further 27 have received a nine, so that puts it up there alongside great moments like 2004 (Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, GTA: San Andreas) or 1998 (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Half-Life, Starcraft, Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid).
Earlier this year we rolled out a way for you to add your scores to the games in our database alongside our own as another element to help provide as much guidance as we can. You may not always agree with our reviews (believe me, I'm aware of this), so some additional perspective from other players can be useful. If you’re signed-in as a registered IGN user, when you go to any of our game pages – like, say, Baldur’s Gate 3 – you can hit the “Rate Game” button and there’s then a very quick multi-part process that you can zip through on either your phone or desktop.
As you can see in the screenshots below, the most important part comes first: simply give the game a rating on a scale of 1-10. If you’re managing your game collection through IGN Playlist the next tab will ask you to enter what platform you played it on. If you’re new to Playlist, it’ll pause here briefly and ask you what your current status with the game is. Are you actively playing it? Are you taking a break? Did you beat it? Or have you quit?
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