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How entries are compared
A comparison is only useful if you know what went into it. This page sets out where each value in an Everworks profile comes from, what the library declines to record, how a title gets a profile in the first place, and how to tell us we have something wrong.
The method in six statements
- Every profile is filled in against the same seven-attribute grid, in the same order, so two profiles can be read side by side.
- Facts about a title come from the publisher's own statements about that title. Nothing else is treated as a source of fact.
- Where a publisher has not stated something, the profile records “not stated”. It is never filled in by inference.
- Nothing is scored. There are no ratings, no rankings and no recommendations of one title over another.
- Coverage is limited to titles this publisher has a commercial relationship with. That limit is stated on every page that could be mistaken for a survey of the market.
- Claims about Australian law, classification or consumer rights are linked to the government source that makes them, or they are not made.
How a title comes to be covered
This is the part most comparison sites leave vague, so it is stated first. Everworks profiles titles whose affiliate programmes pay this publisher a commission on referred sign-ups. There is no editorial selection process that sits above that, and describing one would be untrue. What follows from it is a narrow library rather than a market survey: the absence of a title from this site says nothing about the title, only about whether a commercial arrangement exists.
What the commercial arrangement does not do is set the content of a profile. The grid is fixed before any entry is written, the publisher's statements fill it, and the cautions on each page are the same cautions regardless of which title they sit next to. A commission is paid on a sign-up, not on a favourable description, and there is no version of these pages in which a different description earns more. The affiliate disclosure page sets out the arrangement in full, including what a reader gets out of following a link and what they do not.
Sources, and how they are ranked
Three kinds of source appear in this library, and they are treated differently.
| Source | Used for | Limits applied |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher statements | Platform support, combat model, campaign structure, presentation, stated regional and device restrictions. | Recorded as the publisher's description, not as an independent finding. Subject to change without notice, which is why every profile tells you to check the publisher's site before installing. |
| Australian government bodies | Classification, consumer rights, scam reporting, online safety and privacy. | Linked directly. Described only in terms of what the body actually does. Never paraphrased into a stronger claim than the source supports. |
| General genre knowledge | Explanatory material about how the category works: progression tracks, energy meters, automation behaviour. | Written as general description, never attached to a specific title as a factual claim, and never expressed as a statistic. |
A fourth category exists and is excluded on purpose: aggregated community opinion. Tier lists, forum consensus and video reviews are a reasonable thing for a player to read, but they are not a source of fact about a product, they change weekly, and they cannot be cited in a way a reader can verify. Everworks does not summarise them.
The seven attributes, and what fills them
- Platform reach
- Which desktop operating systems the publisher states support the title, and whether play requires a downloaded client. Mobile availability is not recorded, because this library covers desktop play.
- Combat model
- Whether encounters resolve in turns or in real time, and whether the game provides automated resolution. Recorded from the publisher's description of its own combat.
- Roster acquisition
- How characters enter a roster, including whether randomised draws are part of it. Probability figures are never recorded here — see the exclusions below.
- Campaign structure
- The shape of the guided progression as the publisher describes it: chapters, locations, difficulty tiers, and whether it is voiced.
- Group content
- Whether the title includes clan, guild or alliance activity, as stated by the publisher. Whether that activity is scheduled or optional is recorded where it is stated and left as “not stated” where it is not.
- Presentation
- Voice work, art direction and the density of the interface. This is a description, not a judgement, and is written in terms a reader can check in thirty seconds on the publisher's own site.
- Stated restrictions
- Device and regional limits the publisher applies. Recorded verbatim in substance, because this is the attribute where an inference would do a reader real harm.
What this library will not record
Exclusions are as much a part of a method as inclusions, and each of these is excluded for a stated reason rather than an editorial preference.
- Scores, ratings and rankings. A number implies a measurement, and nothing here has been measured. A reader deciding between two titles is better served by the attribute they differ on than by a decimal.
- Draw probabilities. These vary by event and region and are authoritative only inside the game. Reproducing them here would create a stale figure that looks precise.
- Performance figures and system requirements. Everworks runs no benchmarks and has no test bench, so any number would be invented. Requirements are published by the developer and belong there.
- Prices and discounts. In-game pricing changes constantly and varies by region and currency. No price appears anywhere on this site.
- Player testimonials and quotes. Unverifiable by a reader, and trivially fabricated. There are none on this site, anonymous or otherwise.
- Awards, badges and certifications. None have been awarded to this publication, so none are displayed.
Updating and correcting
Each page carries a “last reviewed” date in the footer, and that date means what it says: on that date, the statements on the page were checked against their sources. Between reviews, a publisher may change a platform, a restriction or a campaign structure, and the page will be out of date until the next review. The instruction to confirm details on the publisher's own site before installing exists precisely because of that lag.
Corrections are welcome and are the fastest way to fix an error. Write to info@everworks.online with the page and the statement at issue; where a correction is accepted the page is amended and the review date is updated. There is no comment system and no form on this site, so email is the entire route — see contact.
How to read an Everworks profile critically
- Check whether an attribute says “not stated”. That is a real finding about the publisher's own disclosure, not a gap in the page.
- Treat the description of a title as the publisher's account of it, because that is what it is.
- Assume the affiliate arrangement is the reason a title appears here at all, because it is.
- For anything that costs money or affects an account, prefer the publisher's live page over this one.
Applied to the titles currently in the library, this method produces the entries on title profiles. The conceptual background that makes those entries readable is on how collection RPGs work.