Every game in the catalog has its own page, reachable from search, your Collection, Recommendations, or a link anywhere else on the site. It covers the game's details, how the community rates it, your own status and rating, your play history, reviews, and a discussion thread scoped to just that game.
In this article: What's on a game's page · Rating a game here · Logging a play · Writing a review · Joining the discussion · The community numbers
What's on a game's page
Header: cover image, title, mechanic and category tags, a share link.
Credits & versions: designer, best-with player count, publisher, and any expansions or alternate editions.
Community rating: this app's average rating out of 10, how many people have rated it, and a Match Rank badge once there are enough ratings for the ranking to mean anything. Well-established games also pick up secondary rank badges within their genre and top mechanic.
Your status & rating: the same four status pills as Collection, your edition/expansions details, an optional value field, and your overall rating.
Rate complexity, players & age: a separate card for the community's take (and yours) on how complex the game is, what player count works best, and what age it suits.
Play history: a log of every time you've played this game, with a live play-timer mode and the ability to delete a logged play.
Marketplace listings: how many copies are currently for sale nearby, linking into the Marketplace.
Looking for a group: any "open seat" posts elsewhere on the site that mention this game specifically.
Reviews: full written reviews from the community, searchable and sortable.
Discussion: a forum thread scoped to this one game, for questions, tips, or anything else worth talking through.
You might also like: three similar games, based on shared mechanics and themes.
Rating a game here
There are two separate rating actions on a game's page. See "How to rate a game" for the full walkthrough:
Overall rating (1–10): under "Your status & rating," click Rate this game (or Edit your rating if you've already rated it).
Complexity, best player count, and minimum age: under "Rate complexity, players & age," click Rate this (or Edit). One modal covers all three, and you don't have to fill in every field at once.
Logging a play
Click "+ Log a play" to record that you played this game. There's also a Play mode button that opens a live timer if you want to track session length as you go. Every logged play shows up in this page's play history and feeds your personal Analytics (most-played games, win/loss record, and so on).
Writing a review
Click "+ Write a review" (or Edit your review, since you can only have one review per game). This opens a modal with a 0–10 rating slider, a title, a body, and optional photos. Posting or saving updates your overall rating for that game too. Anyone can reply to a review as a comment.
You can only edit or delete your own review and your own comments.
Joining the discussion
Click "+ Start a discussion" to open a new thread on this game, or reply to an existing one. It's the same forum system as the main Forum page: see that article for how threads, replies, and editing work. If you're currently restricted from posting in the forum, you'll see a message here instead of the reply box (see "Account suspension & forum restrictions").
Understanding the community numbers
A few of the stats here are worth knowing the mechanics of:
The community rating blends this app's own ratings with the game's real-world BoardGameGeek average, so a brand-new game with one or two Tabletop Match ratings doesn't swing wildly: it settles into an honest number as more people here rate it.
Match Rank (and the genre/mechanic sub-ranks) only shows up once a game has enough ratings for the comparison to mean something. Lightly-rated games just won't have a rank yet.
Complexity/weight, best player count, and minimum age are this app's own community votes, kept separate from BoardGameGeek's numbers (which are also shown, for comparison).
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