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Looks like you’ve been adding more comments on my games and even some YouTube videos, and in fact, on Unsatisfied, you gave positive feedback on a specific line of text in the game that you liked, which was great!

But for the others, you ignored my suggestion and kept posting very generic one-line comments, which again made me wondered if you actually played/watched every video… It’s not a problem that various people come and post short comments, but when the same person serial-comments with one or two words of every work of the same author (and that person is not a close friend), it gets a little weird.

Honestly it’s not critical if you can’t find the right words to express your thoughts - but if you only want to post quantitative feedback to say that you like or didn’t like something, but don’t know better words for that, rating is just fine. On itch.io, there is the rating button at the top-right with a star icon, where you can give a rating and commenting is optional. On YouTube, it’s Thumb up (or Thumb down if you didn’t like it). These sounds like better options when you want to support a work by helping it stand out on the website thanks to the promotion algorithm, but you don’t have any qualitative feedback to add. This also reduces my notifications which can add to my mental workload (I don’t receive notifications for ratings on itch - I just check the average ratings of a given game when I want to).

Again, I enjoy seeing new people give me one-liner like “That game was cool!” but when it’s the same person every time and they never said they were dissatisfied with anything even in my worst entries, the satisfaction starts wearing out and the value of the congratulations starts dropping. So, better use rating / thumb up in that case.

Now, if you really want to learn how to write good qualitative reviews, have a break from posting comments and look at how other people do it. For instance, try to read the top Steam reviews of various games, especially those of medium and big length. There may be very deep and detailed. You don’t have to go that far but if you really like the games you play, you can probably find at least one or two sentences to write about them.

Of course, don’t go the opposite way either: writing paragraphs for the sake of writing paragraphs. If you don’t know what to say, a few lines, or even a pure rating without text is fine.