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Posted September 18, 2025
For quite some time now, the review system on our platform hasn’t been ideal. And we know just how important reviews are, both for discovering new games and for sharing your own experiences with them.

That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve rebuilt the review system to make it clearer, easier to use, and more helpful for everyone.

So, what’s new?

– Edit or delete your reviews anytime (with timestamps to keep changes transparent).

– Better summaries with rating breakdowns at a glance.

– Your own review is always pinned on top, so you can find it right away.

– A dedicated “Reviews” tab on your profile (with the option to make it visible or hidden).

– Up to 8,000 characters per review, plus better formatting, smoother scrolling, and dark mode support.

– Improved reporting flow to help keep reviews fair and constructive.


We hope you’ll enjoy these changes and that they’ll inspire you to write more reviews, or even post your very first one!

Check out your new “Reviews” tab HERE.
Posted September 18, 2025
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Good job! Now fix the tags, please!
Posted September 18, 2025
Review tab does not seem to exist on my profile? Is this only being rolled out for some users at the time of writing?
Posted September 18, 2025
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killy9999: Review tab does not seem to exist on my profile? Is this only being rolled out for some users at the time of writing?
They mean your public profile, which is disabled for you (and for me). See here for an example.
Posted September 18, 2025
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GOG.com: So, what’s new?

– Edit or delete your reviews anytime (with timestamps to keep changes transparent).

– Up to 8,000 characters per review, plus better formatting, smoother scrolling, and dark mode support.
Oh, that's awesome! I can finally write a single review for both Seam and GOG, without having to cut anything down!
THANK YOU!
Posted September 18, 2025
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Now that this is an official post I wanted to ask - If someone edit their review and changes their rating from let say 5 stars to 3 or even 1 (or the opposite) will they lose their votes? From what I know on steam changing your rating from positive to negatie or the opposite removes your votes which makes sense so I wonder if GOG have implemented something similar?
Posted September 18, 2025
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pls add product received for free & refunded tag.

Would also like if you limited reviewing privileges to game owners only.

The other webstore had this features for years!
Posted September 18, 2025
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00063: pls add product received for free & refunded tag.

Would also like if you limited reviewing privileges to game owners only.

The other webstore had this features for years!
Perspective: I don't think GOG has Steam's budget when it comes to develop/improve features on their store.

Slow progress is better then no progress, right?

I think it's good that they introduced these features.
Posted September 18, 2025
Thanks GOG! Still looking forward to that AAA release and the big stuff late Sept or early Oct.
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00063: Would also like if you limited reviewing privileges to game owners only.
I disagree with this; non GOG owners can still add insightful things, like about the gameplay.

Edit: looks like there's an ampersand bug on profiles? See

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/reworked_review_system_is_online/post29
Post edited September 18, 2025 by tfishell
Posted September 18, 2025
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00063: Would also like if you limited reviewing privileges to game owners only.

The other webstore had this features for years!
God, not this again. We have it too, only better - you can see non-owner reviews or not. Up to everyone's individual choice, without forcing your prefrence on everyone else.
Posted September 18, 2025
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I am delighted to have been able to contribute (along with others) to the implementation of the new system. I sincerely hope that the community will take advantage of it to correct certain assessments that are no longer really justified today.
Posted September 18, 2025
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angelblue: I am delighted to have been able to contribute (along with others) to the implementation of the new system. I sincerely hope that the community will take advantage of it to correct certain assessments that are no longer really justified today.
I gotta give GOG credit because this could actually lower review scores in some cases, like if an old game doesn't run on a person's new machine and they update their review and star rating to reflect this. But GOG did still implement these features, bravo.
Posted September 18, 2025
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tfishell: I disagree with this; non GOG owners can still add insightful things, like about the gameplay.
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Breja: God, not this again. We have it too, only better - you can see non-owner reviews or not. Up to everyone's individual choice, without forcing your prefrence on everyone else.
Already covered this in a different thread and i'm done!
All i'm going to add is that i'm sick of seeing 5 stars the same moment the game is released here!
Posted September 18, 2025
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Breja: God, not this again. We have it too, only better - you can see non-owner reviews or not. Up to everyone's individual choice, without forcing your prefrence on everyone else.
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00063: Already covered this in a different thread and i'm done!
All i'm going to add is that i'm sick of seeing 5 stars the same moment the game is released here!
You'll just need patience, and then sort by most recent reviews and look for reviews under 5 stars, and of course can checkmark looking only at owner reviews.
Posted September 18, 2025
All well, except I disagree with the increase of the word limit. People should know when to stop. When to let certain aspects of the game be experienced by the next potential buyer, as well. You don’t have to reveal all that you’ve seen! Then we would all just read lengthy reviews, instead of playing the game!

And, mind you, I don't mean story spoilers. I mean so many other information of the game, that is written unnecessarily (omitting the necessary). I had read lengthy reviews of RPGs, which weren't mentioning if there's enemy respawn or not!!
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