Review Bombing

Review bombing involves coordinated campaigns to flood games with negative ratings over political disagreements, ignoring actual quality. The Last of Us Part II, Hogwarts Legacy, and Elden Ring's DLC have all been targeted, with some games seeing 90% of bombed reviews appear within 24 hours. Steam and Metacritic now use anti-bombing algorithms that exclude suspicious review groups, but this reactive approach lags behind the speed of attacks. Unlike doxxing (#4), which can force victims to relocate, review bombing primarily damages a title's reputation and sales, with developers reporting up to 30% revenue drops during campaigns.