BGG ratings are great, but I wanted to find out if a game…
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BGG ratings are great, but I wanted to find out if a game is right for my group. So I built a free tool!
I built a tool to answer one question I kept running into:
“Will *my group* actually like and play this game?”
BGG ratings are useful, but they average everyone together.
And when I watch reviews, I don’t agree with every reviewer equally.
So I ended up building something for myself called **Deckt**:
It looks at board game reviews (mainly YouTube), and:
* creates a global “consensus”
* lets you weight reviewers you trust more
* and gives you a **personalized score** for each game
So instead of:
“this game is an 8.2”
you get something closer to:
“this is an 8.9 *for you*”
It also breaks things down into stuff like:
* what the game is best for
* what it’s not great at
* and where opinions differ
The main goal was just to avoid spending hours watching reviews and still being unsure. But a great side effect is finding new reviewers that match my taste (and therefore spending even more time watching reviews).
I would love to hear what you think:
* Do you have reviewers you consistently agree with?
* Would a personalized score actually be useful?
* Or is this overkill compared to how you usually pick games?
You can try it here: Deckt https://www.deckt.app/
Genuinely curious if this is something others would use. Also have mercy this is just a passion project in its early stages.
#games
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I built a tool to answer one question I kept running into:
“Will *my group* actually like and play this game?”
BGG ratings are useful, but they average everyone together.
And when I watch reviews, I don’t agree with every reviewer equally.
So I ended up building something for myself called **Deckt**:
It looks at board game reviews (mainly YouTube), and:
* creates a global “consensus”
* lets you weight reviewers you trust more
* and gives you a **personalized score** for each game
So instead of:
“this game is an 8.2”
you get something closer to:
“this is an 8.9 *for you*”
It also breaks things down into stuff like:
* what the game is best for
* what it’s not great at
* and where opinions differ
The main goal was just to avoid spending hours watching reviews and still being unsure. But a great side effect is finding new reviewers that match my taste (and therefore spending even more time watching reviews).
I would love to hear what you think:
* Do you have reviewers you consistently agree with?
* Would a personalized score actually be useful?
* Or is this overkill compared to how you usually pick games?
You can try it here: Deckt https://www.deckt.app/
Genuinely curious if this is something others would use. Also have mercy this is just a passion project in its early stages.
#games
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