OINKCADE is an independent game review site with one job: sniff out what's worth your time and tell you straight, without the marketing gloss. No sponsored scores, no publisher hands on the dial — just honest verdicts on our own Snout-o-Meter.
A small operation run by people who play the whole game before scoring a single nostril. We buy our own copies wherever we can, we finish what we start, and if something stinks we'll say so before you spend your money on it.
The herd is small but stubborn. That's the point — you always know exactly whose opinion you're reading.
Every game is scored out of 10 across two nostrils:
🐽 Craft — how well the thing is built. Mechanics, performance, and whether it does what it set out to do.
🐽 Hold — how long it keeps us in the pen after the credits could've rolled.
The overall score is the average of the two. 7.5+ earns Herd Approved, 5.5+ lands at Middling Snout, and anything below is Not Our Trough.
Publishers have never touched a score on this site, and they never will. Review copies and press keys don't buy a number — they buy a game we'll be honest about, same as any other.
When a game changes enough to matter — a big patch, an expansion, a redemption arc — we Re-Sniff it and update the score in the open, old number crossed out and all.
Press keys, review copies, corrections, or just a good argument about a score — the inbox is open.
oinkcade@outlook.com