While browsing through the weekly sale page, by pure chance I've stopped scrolling with my mouse pointer over Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition and something has caught my eye on the right side of the page: A great version for a great game, 5 stars...

"Wait, what? I thought the consensus was this edition was a cheap cash grab, pretty much the Dosbox version with a blurry filter on top, what's happening here? Ah ok, the overall rating is 1.5 stars (in black, not in yellow)..."

I've checked the game page thinking that maybe it's actually a good game, as the (supposedly) most helpful review seems to say. Maybe it's been patched or something and all the 1-star reviews are old? No, the featured review in the game page is actually the least helpful review. It's at the very bottom of the page and exactly "0 of 23 users found this helpful"

Same thing happens with Simon the Sorcerer 2, and I guess every other game. The case of Kromaia is even funnier, because the sale page features a 3-star review and the game page shows "No reviews yet" (at least in my account language, English)

What's going on here, GOG? Aren't you featuring the most helpful reviews but the most positive ones?

There used to be a bug after the site redesign which reversed the number of "useful" and "not useful" votes. Maybe, when it was solved in the review pages, it was overlooked in the sale pages (where the individual sale pages even available by then?).

A less helpful one would be 'This game sucks - 5 stars'

I don't think it's this. I've checked some other games and in some cases the featured reviews are the most helpful, while in other cases it's "somewhat helpful" reviews.

For example, Need to know features three 4 and 3-star reviews. Two of them are the 6th and 7th most helpful reviews, and the third is nowhere to be seen in the game page.

But on the other hand they're not featuring another less helpful 5-star review, so what in some games appears to be shameless promotion of positive reviews, in general could be another inscrutable GOG bug.