find the game before anyone else does
needmoar.games ranks Steam games by head-to-head duels inside players' own libraries, no star ratings, no review bombing. Half a million of those duels sit behind this site, and most of them are about games that never made a front page. If you are hunting for a review nobody else has filed, or a game to build a short around, this is a decent place to start digging. All of it is public and needs no account.
games nobody has covered
The hidden gems are the ones our own leaderboards can never show: three to ten people here have ranked each of them, and not one of those players filed it in the bottom half of their own library. No press cycle, no discourse, and a real opinion behind every entry. Filter it by tag to land on the flavour you cover.
cut for your audience
The power search stacks tags, years and a floor on how high players place a game, so you can ask for the exact kind of thing your viewers turn up for and get it back ranked by taste rather than by wishlist count.
the whole catalogue, sliced
The browse page is the front door to every cut we publish: by tag, by genre, by release year, plus the four community boards. Good for a retrospective, an anniversary piece, or a "best of" list you would rather not source from a store page.
put what players actually think in your article
A game's verdict is the share of a typical library it beats. Embed it for any Steam appid with the four widgets below: they are free, refresh hourly, carry no tracking, and link back here.
store.steampowered.com/app/1245620/…. Every game we have metadata for works; unranked games say so honestly.
a the badge an image · for sites that can't host an iframe
A small image in the style of a repo status badge: our mark, the game's name and its beats-%. Drop it anywhere an <img> works — markdown, a CMS, a forum post. It refreshes itself hourly; there's nothing to update on your side.
<a href="https://needmoar.games/app/1245620"><img src="https://needmoar.games/embed/1245620/badge.svg" alt="How much players love this game, on needmoar.games" height="20"></a>
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b the score bar full width · beats-% and rater count
The same row our editorial collections use: cover, name, the "beats X%" bar in its score-tier colour and how many players it rests on. Full width, 96 pixels tall including the credit line under the bar. Best directly under the paragraph that quotes the number.
<iframe src="https://needmoar.games/embed/1245620/score" title="How much players love this game — needmoar.games" width="100%" height="96" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>
c the love vs hate bar full width · the camps
Where the average hides a fight: how many of its raters put the game in the top quarter of their library (love), the bottom quarter (hate), or somewhere in between. Full width, 96 pixels tall including the credit line. Only ratings with a few duels behind them count as an opinion, so these players can be fewer than the score bar's.
<iframe src="https://needmoar.games/embed/1245620/split" title="Love vs hate — needmoar.games" width="100%" height="96" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>
d the distribution card the whole picture · 284px tall
The game page's "where players rank it": cover, verdict and every rater's placement in brackets of 10%. This one needs more room — 284 pixels including the credit line — and works down to about 320 pixels wide (the cover folds away on narrow columns).
<iframe src="https://needmoar.games/embed/1245620/histogram" title="Where players rank this game — needmoar.games" width="100%" height="284" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>
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how to read the number
"Beats 72%" means: for the median player who duelled it, the game ranks above 72% of their own library. It's a preference consensus among people who own the game — not a review score, and not comparable to one. Quote it as "beats 72% of its players' libraries on needmoar.games". The FAQ has the long version.
deeper numbers
The stats page is the transparency report: duels per day, players, costs and revenue, all public. The most loved, most hated and most controversial boards and the best-by-year lists are quotable too. Need a cut we don't publish? Ask on discord.
the logo
You're welcome to use our mark and name when writing about the site or crediting a number — as is, in any size, on any background. Please don't alter its shape or colours.
privacy & caching
The widgets set no cookies and load no analytics — your readers' browsers fetch a plain page from our CDN, nothing else. The widgets are cached for an hour, so a number can lag the game page by that much. Outside its box a widget is transparent, so it blends into your page. Wrote about a game? Tell us and we link your piece from its page under "in the press".
