Emoji reactions for OpenCritic game pages

A percentage of critics is not a description

The Top Critic Average and the share of critics who recommend a game both answer how many reviewers approved. Neither answers what the game is like to live with: the same average covers a tight 6-hour game and a 90-hour one that wears people down.

Emojery gives players a way to say which it was without scoring anything. The reaction strip is drawn from one palette, the same one running on every other supported site.

Not a score and not a review aggregator

Emojery does not compute an average, weight outlets, rank games, or touch the critic data. It adds a separate reaction layer in your browser, under the action row the page already shows.

The game id is the target

The extension derives the target from the numeric game id in the page URL. The title slug after that id is decoration the site ignores, so 2 links to the same game with different slugs land on the same total.

Review lists, media pages, and outlet pages carry no action row, so they carry no button.

Nothing to replace

Rate is a score, and Want, Played, and Favorite are lists. Emojery stands in for none of them, so it only adds: the opt-in Auto-press original buttons setting stays inactive here, and Hide original buttons has nothing to hide.

Counts are readable without an account

A game's totals are readable by anyone, with no OpenCritic or Emojery login. Adding to them takes a provider sign-in, so the strip counts players rather than anonymous installs.

Where players and critics part ways

A high critic average under a strip of tired faces and warnings is a different game from the same average under hearts and fire. The gap is the part a review round-up cannot print.

A signal outside the aggregator

The reaction layer belongs to neither the outlets nor the site. It runs on the same model on every supported page, so the signal reads the same way wherever you meet it.