Tabletop Match has two separate rating actions, and they live in different places. Both are optional, and doing one doesn't require doing the other.
In this article: Your overall rating (1–10) · Complexity, best player count, and minimum age · Why bother rating games at all
Your overall rating (1–10)
This is the single number that feeds a game's community rating average, your personal Recommendations, and your own Analytics.
Rate a game from two places:
Your Collection page: find the game's card and click Rate (or Edit rating if you've already rated it).
The game's own page: under "Your status & rating," click Rate this game (or Edit your rating).
Either way opens a modal with a slider from 1 to 10 in half-point steps, so 7.5 is a valid rating, not just whole numbers. Save it and it's recorded immediately: you don't need to write a review to rate a game, though writing one does also update this same rating.
Complexity, best player count, and minimum age
This is a separate, more detailed set of ratings that only exists on a game's own page, under "Rate complexity, players & age." Click Rate this (or Edit) to open one combined modal covering all three:
Complexity (weight): a 1 to 5 slider, matching the scale BoardGameGeek uses.
Best player count: pick from number buttons scoped to that game's own supported range, so a 2-player-only game won't offer you a "6" button.
Minimum age: pick from fixed options: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 18.
You don't have to fill in all three at once. Submit just the ones you have an opinion on, and come back for the rest later.
These three feed the community averages on that same card: average weight (with a breakdown across all five complexity tiers), the most commonly-voted best player count, and the average suggested minimum age.
Why bother rating games at all
Your overall ratings are the entire basis for your personal Recommendations page: the more you rate, especially games you love, the better those suggestions get.
Community ratings (overall, plus complexity/players/age) are shared with everyone. They're what other members see on a game's page, not just you.
Your rating distribution shows up in your Analytics, including where your opinion differs most from the community's.
Related articles: Game pages · Your Collection · Analytics