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In a thread I read recently, one of the moderators lamented that there are a lot of games which haven't gotten reviews from players. Is there a way we can filter or sort the store for games which don't have reviews (or only have few reviews)?

I tried to sort by "user rating", check the no-DLC box to show less soundtrack products, but some of those games just have negative reviews such as "A.D. 2044". There are also some highly-rated games which don't have reviews, or only have one or two, such as apparently the highest rated product in the store (which is a DLC): "Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York - Artbook" 5/5, no reviews.
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drm9009: In a thread I read recently, one of the moderators lamented that there are a lot of games which haven't gotten reviews from players. Is there a way we can filter or sort the store for games which don't have reviews (or only have few reviews)? ...
I don't think so. But if you want to take the time, you can perhaps sort by "Bestselling (All Time)" and go way down the list (pages 25, 50, etc.); the less a game has sold, the more likely it is to be lacking in reviews I think.

https://www.gog.com/games?page=25&sort=bestselling

https://www.gog.com/games?page=50&sort=bestselling
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You could do a search on MaGog, the fan-developed search engine for all things GOG, and sort games by number of reviews in ascending order: http://www.an-ovel.com/cgi-bin/magog.cgi?ver=1102&scp=g&dsp=igsrx&ord=w0&flt=&opt=n&myf=FriOct91419402020_empty_MWTV1X5g6GOcS

Unfortunately this method is on borrowed time as MaGog is scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year.
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tfishell: perhaps sort by "Bestselling (All Time)" and go way down the list
I just tried this and checked the no-DLC box. Ignoring "soon" games, "Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient" is the lowest. That has 3 reviews. The next-lowest, "Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach", has 8 reviews.

It probably is more likely for the bestselling games to have been reviewed more, but I wish it was easier to find unreviewed titles (or those with the fewest reviews).
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ConsulCaesar: MaGog, the fan-developed search engine... Unfortunately this method is on borrowed time as MaGog is scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year.
Wow, this is a great site. Good to know about it, sad to hear about the dev deciding to close it (I see their forum thread about it). When someone is passionate enough to create something like that, and decides to drop it, hopefully it gives people a moment to think about things.

I see there is a link to the database as a text file on the MaGog website, beneath the search form. If no better solutions come up I'll mark this as an answer. I'm sure I'd be able to grep the info I need out of this file, instead of burdening the Magog server with my curiosities. It would be wonderful if GOG decided to export the store data in a similar format, even if they don't want to spend time making changes to the store every time people think of a different filter or sort method! Thank you.
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ConsulCaesar: MaGog, the fan-developed search engine
Marked as a solution, thanks again. Here's a Linux one-liner for pulling the number of reviews from the txt database from MaGog, assuming the forum doesn't mistake it as some type of markup:

$ perl -pe 's/ \| ?/\t/g' < magog_db_20201009.txt |cut -f 17,2 |awk 'BEGIN {FS="\t";OFS=FS;} {print $2,$1;}' |grep -v -e '\[DLC\]' -e '\[Premium\]' -e '\[removed' -e '\[Collection' -e '\[Upcoming' |sort -n |cat -n |less -I;

Only seven games (excluding those DLC, removed, Premium, etc) have 0 reviews. But around 40 games only have 1 review, 209 games have fewer than 5 reviews, and 567 games have fewer than 10 reviews.