Since the relaunch and rebranding of Titanquisitor in May 2025, as more of a gaming and stoic Christian mens lifestyle site, I’ve retired the Star Rating system for reviews that we used for years. You’ll find the Star Rating guide still explained below, and that’s because all of the reviews posted before May 2025 live on in the Archived Reviews categories.

Occasionally, a game previously reviewed might be removed from Archived Reviews and updated with our new system, which you’ll read about below.

The new system is called Titan’s Verdict, and it’s a much simpler purchase-based rating system. It’s essentially Buy, Wait for Sale, and Avoid, with a special fourth tier for truly exceptional games.

This is the new system:

Titan’s Verdict

⚡ IMMORTAL GLORY

Legendary Masterpiece

The rarest designation, reserved for those once-in-a-generation masterpieces that transcend the medium itself. Like the immortal gods of Olympus, these games achieve a state of perfection that seems beyond mortal capability. An Immortal Glory title represents not just technical excellence but an artistic achievement that will influence gaming for years to come. Rarely will a game earn this hallowed status.

Purchase Advice: Buy immediately and preserve for posterity. These are the games worth building a collection around.

🛡️ ATLAS APPROVED

Worth Full Price

Exceptional games that shoulder the burden of excellence with strength and confidence. Just as Atlas held the heavens upon his shoulders, these titles bear the weight of their ambitions admirably, delivering superb experiences across most or all areas of design. While not quite achieving immortality, they stand as mighty accomplishments worthy of recognition and respect.

Purchase Advice: Buy without hesitation at launch price. These titles deliver exceptional value and experiences worthy of your time and money.

🔥 PROMETHEUS PENDING

Wait For Sale

Games with promising elements but lacking the complete vision needed for greatness—just as Prometheus brought fire to humanity but at great cost. These titles may spark interest through innovation or particular strengths, but their flames don’t burn consistently enough to justify their full asking price. The potential is present, but patience is advised.

Purchase Advice: Add to your wishlist and acquire when discounted. The experience may be worthwhile, but not at premium pricing.

🕳️ TARTARUS

Avoid Entirely

Fundamentally flawed experiences that deserve to be cast into the deepest pit of the underworld. Like the Greek realm where the most wicked were imprisoned, these games represent design sins that cannot be forgiven: broken mechanics, cynical monetization, empty experiences, or catastrophic technical issues. They offer nothing but torment to those who venture into their depths.

Purchase Advice: Avoid even during deep sales. These titles are not worth your time or money under any circumstances.

Pre-May 2025 Archived Review 5 Star Scale

This scale and portion of the guide is no longer appicliable to new reviews. It exists merely for the now Archived Reviews that were posted before May 2025.

We review many different things: games, movies, TV shows, wrestling events/DVDs, technology, tea, board games, and so on. We believe it’s best to have a unified review scale for everything, as that makes everything consistent.

We have settled on a permanent review scale that we feel best gives our reviewers the flexibility to accurately score an item based on their true feelings of the product.

No silly averages where one less than important category can artificially inflate a score, and no 100% scale where people are left wondering what exactly the difference is between an 8.8 and an 8.9.

We use a five-star scale, and one that includes zero stars in extreme cases that we hope to never have to use.

Star Ratings Representation

• 5 Stars – Excellent
• 4 Stars – Great
• 3 Stars – Satisfying to Good
• 2 Stars- Forgettable to Decent
• 1 Star – Bad
• 0 Stars – Dreadful

You’ll notice that both 2 stars and 3 stars have two meanings, and for that we say read the review. On average, most reviews will probably end up being in middle there, the two-to-three-star range. If we operated on a full five-star scale, one that includes half stars as we once did, then 3 and 1/2 would be “good” while just 3 would be “satisfying.”

We don’t use half stars anymore because outside of those two middle instances, we don’t fill they add much. They serve to complicate, and if we used them then we might as well be on a 10-point scale. We’ve tried many different systems, and ultimately believe that the fewer ratings available the easier the standard is to see.

For all intents and purposes, we should only have five possible stars. Excellent doesn’t mean perfect, and so they aren’t overly rare, but if you see us give zero stars to something then you know that something has gone terribly wrong.

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Other Tidbits Regarding Titanquisitor Reviews:

• We do, on occasion, receive products for review. When we receive an item to review, we will ALWAYS disclose that to you, the readers, so that you’ll know it isn’t something the reviewer spent money on. This disclosure will be posted at the bottom of the review. You can read more on our Ethics Statement.

• Our reviewers write 100% honest reviews. We don’t care about publishers or distributors or anything like that. We care about YOU, our readers. Our job as reviewers is to provide HONEST opinions based on what we thought so that we can better help you decide to make a purchasing decision or not. We’re not interested in advertising products for publishers or scoring products to try and please publishers.

• No Titanquisitor staff member will ever attend what is called a “Review Event” in the gaming industry. If a publisher wants to fly us out to a hotel or someplace to play their game in a controlled environment with other members of the press then that game isn’t worth us reviewing. Simple as that.

• We hope you understand that we have our own review scale (clearly outlined above) and that we don’t care about the review scales of other outlets. If we score something two, then that means we thought it was mostly decent. Decent doesn’t equal good, but it isn’t bad either. To that end, read the reviews before arguing with the reviewer if you think a game, movie, or whatever is scored too high or too low. Reviews are merely OPINIONS. This is all subjective, and it’s okay that we’ll have different opinions from time to time.