At the end of each port report, the port is given a score out of five stars. This score is not objective; it is based entirely on my preferences and personal experiences with the port.
For example, even if a title has everything I want in a PC game, I will never give it a perfect score if it uses a launcher to change graphics settings because I personally do not like launchers. As another example, even if a port receives five stars, it may not support your preferred controller since I don’t test every controller.
I want to make port scores as accurate as possible, but aiming for pure objectivity would be chasing after the impossible. Your PC is different to mine, so there’s always a good chance you’ll have a different experience.
The following points are reasons why a port may receive a certain score:
- ★★★★★
- Basically perfect
- Minimal external configuration, if any
- ★★★★
- One or two non-critical features absent
- Some external configuration (e.g., config file editing)
- ★★★
- Several non-critical features absent
- One critical feature absent
- Considerable external configuration
- Poor performance
- ★★
- More than one critical feature absent
- Awful performance
- ★
- Broken
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