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Short conditions for reading and reusing this material, and an honest account of the limits of what the audits claim.

Reading a page here means these terms apply to that use. They are brief because the site does very little.

What the figures are

Hours to credits and resume cost are measurements taken by one person under the conditions described on the method page. Finish likelihood is an estimate built on those measurements plus an assumption about how much time a reader has. None of it is buying advice, and a game may be outstanding while scoring badly here.

Accuracy and revision

The log is kept by hand and hand-kept logs contain errors. Where one is found the page is corrected in place, the superseded figure is left visible, and the reason is given. Two running claims have already been narrowed and both remain narrowed on the ledger notes page. Nothing here is offered as final.

Quoting and reuse

Quote a few sentences freely for commentary, criticism, teaching or research, naming the publication and linking to the page quoted. Not permitted: republishing whole audits or notes elsewhere, reproducing the tables or estimates in a way that strips the ranges and caveats attached to them, or using this material to train models or generate derivative text at scale.

Images

The illustrations here are made for this site and depict invented games. They are not screenshots and must not be presented as depicting any real product. Reuse of them elsewhere is not permitted.

Games and names

Titles are discussed for the purposes of criticism and analysis. Any names, studios or products mentioned remain the property of their respective owners, and nothing here implies endorsement by, association with or approval from anyone connected to them.

Availability

These are static pages. They may be revised, consolidated, moved or withdrawn at any time without notice, and no undertaking is given that a particular page, figure or address will persist or be reachable at any given moment.

Limits

Everything is offered as published, with no warranty of any kind. So far as the law permits, no liability is accepted for any loss, cost or disappointment arising from decisions taken on the basis of these figures — including the decision to buy a two-hundred-hour game after reading that almost nobody finishes it.

Interpretation

If any provision here is unenforceable in a particular jurisdiction, the remaining provisions continue in force. These terms may be revised, and the version present on this page when you read it governs that visit.

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Reviews written for people whose libraries outran their lives. Every game bought at retail, timed to the credits, put down for three weeks and picked up again to see what it costs to return.

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