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For clarifications and to make sure everyone is on the same page, we made a small glossary containing words that are a bit unusual or often have multiple meanings.
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| Add-On | Refers to a single piece of official extra content for a game. Things such as extra characters, items, maps, etc. | |
| Add-on Bundle | Various add-ons gathered together in a single bundle. These bundles may vary from store to store. | |
| DLC | Generic term for any official additional content a game receives, such as add-on and expansions - even if it's not actually in a downloadable format. Mods and community patches are not DLC. | |
| Expansion | A large, significant amount of new content for a game, usually containing new story contents. We use this term for for old-school expansions, standalone expansions, large-sized DLC, season passes and whatever else large amount of new contents offered. | |
| Game Session | Each continuous stretch of time of someone playing a game. |
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| Gamelist | That's how we call your whole games collection. |
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| Library | Same thing as gamelist | |
| Opinion | A very casual review. When users want to express their thoughts about a game but can't be arsed to make an effort to write a well thought-out text, an opinion is the way to go. | |
| Missable | Something is missable when there is a specific time window to fulfill its required conditions. For example, a side-quest that can only be completed before reaching a certain area or main mission is a missable side-quest. |
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| Platform | A computer system for executing gaming software. Games for one platform generally won't work in another. |
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| Playthrough | Represents playing a game from start to (hopefully) finish. |
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| Port | A (game) port (not the naval kind) is a new version of a game running in a different platform than the one it was originally released for. | |
| Remake | A complete rebuild of a game, using very few assets from the original. Most remakes offer total redos of the art, soundtrack and sometimes even change the gameplay. | |
| Remaster | A new version of a game (usually a port to a newer platform) that offers mostly small changes in relation to the original, such as bug fixes, slightly improved graphics or some extra contents. | |
| Review | A critical analysis of a game. We give higher visibility for reviews than Opinions, but we also expect better content from them. | |
| Rig | That's how we refer to each group of hardware you own. For example, your computer + mouse + keyboard could be one rig, and your Playstation another. How you organize your hardware is up to you. |
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| Store | Any business that sells games digitally. Stores that only sell physical copies of games are not allowed in our system. | |
| Vendor | Distribution platforms that provide specific functionality to a game - like how the Xbox environment provides achievements, or Steam provides multiplayer tools. Most vendors also have their own stores, but most stores are not vendors. |