Reviews at or above this threshhold are considered recommended. For publications that have not made an election, the threshhold is set to the publication's median review score. * For numeric reviews written by top critics, publications may elect to set their own threshhold for what is and isn't recommended. >* A critic specified they would recommend the game to general gamers over other games releasing at a similar time when uploading their review metadata to OpenCritic's content management system (CMS). A review is considered to be recommended if one of the following has occured: >This metric is calculated by taking the overall recommendation percentage of all reviews with verdicts. They discuss their methodology for this score on (): I've always felt OpenCritic's 'Recommended' scores for games were a little too confusing, or even misleading.