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[intbal]

I just look at the box art.
100% reliable system for four decades.

 

[jufonuk]

GAF/Certain game sites or YouTube

 

[Bullets-hurt]

Critic reviews are generally more reliable to get a vague idea about the quality of a game. User reviews have the same issue as twitter where actually good takes are lost to activism.

Yeah I get it the dev did a thing you didn't like - is the game that was overwhelmingly positive must buy now really a mostly negativity don't play?

And that's before you get to just worthless reviews like 3 word 0/10 and 10/10 takes.

Most useful though is usually the highest rated steam review or just forum posts where someone is saying why you should check out this game.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

All the alpha chads from GAF e.g. if Yoshichan is down for D4 that's enough for me.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Steam. Right there on the store page, shows both overall reviews and recent ones (very useful in the age of early accesses and patches), every user needs to own or to have played the game, has anti-review bomb system that still informs you of the review bomb, its designed in a way (recommend/not recommend) that takes into account the user is most interested in bringing the overall score up or down rather than giving a genuine grade.

Steam is awesome for reviews.

User reviews even have a time log counter to show you how long they played it. Very transparent data. And the time metric has some basic functionality to filter to the hours played. So you can weed out trollers who didn't play it, or barely played it like in every other review site where they dont seem to give a shit if a guy never played the game and is giving it a 1/10 or 10/10 for laughs.

I purposely just messed with the slider to show you can even do a time range.

 

[OuterLimits]

Even when potentially buying an indie game on Switch, I will often check steam reviews to see what people thought of the game.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Here on Neogaf and some gaming channels on YouTube.