Badge catalogue
315 badges for the good bits, the bad decisions and everything that earned a closer look.
The clown ratings
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315 badges
- Circus badge Media Laundering +3
PR and hype
A company claim washed through enough articles to look independently true.
1 post with this badge → - Circus badge Menus Inside Menus +3
UI and UX
Everything is buried inside another menu. I only wanted to change one thing.
4 posts with this badge → - Positive Menus That Work ✓
UI and UX
Clear information, quick inputs and menus that get out of the way.
View badge → - Positive Messy, Still Brilliant ✓
Overall verdict
I could spend ages listing the problems and still recommend playing it.
View badge → - Circus badge Missing The Basics +1
Budget, ambition and jank
A small budget only excuses so much. The basics still need to work.
4 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Mobile Port UI +2
UI and UX
Thumb-sized buttons occupying half a monitor and all available patience.
3 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Mod Hostility +2
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
Players improved the game. The company reached for a padlock.
View badge → - Positive Modders Welcome ✓
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
Tools, access and permission for players to improve the game. Look what they make when you let them.
View badge → - Circus badge Moderation Lottery +2
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
The same behaviour gets different outcomes depending on which report they happen to act on.
1 post with this badge → - Circus badge Modernised Into Nothing +3
Sequels and remakes
They updated it until all the things that made the original interesting were gone.
3 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Money Furnace, No Results +4
Budget, ambition and jank
Years of development and that much money. How is this all they have to show for it?
View badge → - Circus badge Monopoly Move +3
Company conduct
Why improve the product when you can make sure customers have nowhere else to go?
1 post with this badge → - Positive Moved The Series Forward ✓
Sequels and remakes
New ideas that make sense for this series. This is why I wanted a sequel.
View badge → - Positive Movement Nailed ✓
Gameplay
Getting around feels good enough to become the main activity.
1 post with this badge → - Circus badge MTX Rash +2
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
Every other menu has something else to sell me. I did come here to play a game.
2 posts with this badge → - Circus badge My Input Vanished +2
Gameplay
Yes, I pressed the bloody button. Whether anything happens seems to be optional.
View badge → - Circus badge Name Only +2
Sequels and remakes
A famous title stapled to a complete stranger.
3 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Needs A Wiki +2
UI and UX
The interface outsourced its job to unpaid strangers online.
4 posts with this badge → - Positive No Account Required ✓
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
Install it and use it. I have enough accounts already.
View badge → - Positive No Forced AI ✓
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
AI is optional or absent. I can get on with using the product I actually wanted.
View badge → - Positive No PR Filter ✓
Creative spine
Characters speak like people. Nobody sounds approved by Legal.
1 post with this badge → - Circus badge No Subtitles +4
Accessibility
All that dialogue and no subtitles. Such a basic thing to leave out.
View badge → - Circus badge Nostalgia Bait +2
Sequels and remakes
Old music, familiar props and a hand permanently hovering near your wallet.
3 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Nothing Has Any Weight +2
Gameplay
Big animation, barely any sound or reaction. Hard to tell whether I actually did anything.
2 posts with this badge →