Indie and Nintendo Games Face Review Bombing on Metacritic

Indie publisher Deck13 has called on Metacritic to take action after its acclaimed JRPG, Chained Echoes, was review-bombed for no apparent reason. The game received dozens of negative user ratings on Switch, PC, and PS4 Metacritic pages, dragging the user scores down to around five or six out of ten. The negative ratings don't come with any written reviews, and the development team has no idea where the ill-feeling has come from. The publisher suggests that the review-bomb may be tied to localization, but it's not certain. Deck13 hopes that the constant outrage around review-bombing might lead to a changing situation.