Okay, since I’m unhinged I did another analysis on “underrated” games. In order to determine which games are underrated, I did a linear regression of rating vs popularity, and took the games with the highest residuals. That is, which games are most highly rated compared to what their popularity would predict? Here are the results:
Most underrated games on omnibus
- Trees Don’t Tell
- The Dryad’s Riddle
- Lost in the Pages
- Diamant Rose
- Captive of Fortune
- Foundation of Nightmares
- Highlands, Deep Waters
- Divided We Fall
- Guns of Infinity
- Starship Adventures
Most underrated games on Google Play
- Keeper of the Day and Night (probably due to recency)
- Guns of Infinity
- The Butler Did It
- The Dryad’s Riddle
- Trees Don’t Tell
- The Saga of Oedipus Rex
- Relics of the Lost Age (again, recency)
- The Harbinger’s Head
- The Volunteer Firefighter
- A Study in Steampunk
So, what do you think of Trees Don’t Tell?
Detailed methodologies are in the analysis notebook I linked earlier. Choice of games should pay me for doing this.