How the Mind Score works

The method behind the card on every game page.

The Mind Score is ReRoll’s own opinion about how a game treats the person playing it: whether it respects their time and their wallet, whether it gives them something back, and roughly what age it suits. It is not a review score, not a measure of how good a game is, and not an age rating from a ratings board.

1. What it measures

• Respect — how the game treats the player’s time, attention and money: pressure to spend, pressure to come back, mechanics built around a purchase.
• Nourish — what the game gives back: what it asks the player to think about, build, read or practise. Hidden on games rated 16+ or 18, where the question is not the point.
• Stimulation — how loud the game is, from 1 (calm) to 5 (relentless).
• Suggested age — ReRoll’s own suggestion. The official PEGI or ESRB rating is a floor: our suggestion can raise it, never lower it.
• Horizon — whether the game has an ending, is open-ended, or never stops; and whether the player can stop when they want to.
• Flags and skills — short labels for what to watch out for and what the game exercises. Every one carries the evidence it was drawn from.

2. Where the facts come from

• The Steam store page: categories, in-app purchase flags, and statistics over player reviews (never the text of a review).
• Steam tags and their vote counts, via SteamSpy.
• IGDB (Twitch): genres, keywords, themes, release dates, cover art.
• Wikipedia, for facts about a game’s monetisation or its history.
• PEGI and ESRB ratings and content descriptors, including the USK and OFLC lines carried on a game’s Steam store page.

No personal data of any ReRoll user goes into a Mind Score, and no user data appears on a public page.

3. How it is computed

A rules layer reads those facts and derives each value, and a local AI model running on our own hardware reviews the result. No game data is sent to a third-party model. Two rules constrain both:

• No claim without evidence. A flag that cannot point at a fact — a tag with its vote count, a store category, a rating descriptor, a share of reviews mentioning something, a Wikipedia statement — is not posed at all. Tapping a label on the card shows that evidence.
• No score without confidence. Each result carries a confidence. Below 0.35 the card shows no scores and no verdict, the page says “not enough information yet”, and it is excluded from search engines and from our sitemap. Every card prints its confidence and the date it was computed.

No verbatim review text, no review identifiers and no article text are ever published.

4. What it is not

• It is not an official age rating. PEGI and ESRB are the official ratings, and they are printed next to ours precisely so the two are not confused.
• It is not a statement about a publisher’s conduct, and no label here is an allegation of unlawful behaviour.
• It is not a quality score, and it is deliberately not published as a star rating.
• It is not a substitute for a parent’s own judgement. It is a starting point for a conversation about a game, not a verdict on it.

5. Corrections and right of reply

If something here is wrong about a game — a fact, an evidence line, a score — write to support@cloudtaken.com and say which page and what is wrong. Publishers and developers named or identified on a page may ask for a right of reply at the same address; we answer and, where a correction is due, publish it.