KumaKitsu Game Review Policy

Here's our game review policy, in simple english.

For Readers:

  1. We do not accept any form of payment, benefits, etc. that influence the opinion of our reviews. We are 100% committed to operating this website, even at a loss, if it keeps our opinion free from a "vendor" bias.
  2. The exception: We do accept free or discounted versions of games we are interested in reviewing. This does create an order-of-review bias in that we may review their game more quickly than others on our list. We're two people, on limited budget, running a website that generates no revenue. If we get enough donations to remove this exception, we gladly will do so.
  3. If a vendor donates to our website in ANY way that we can identify (e.g. name (at) GameCompany.com), we will announce the donation on that vendor's upcoming review. We actively discourage this in our vendor policy below.

For Vendors (Developers, Publishers, Game Advertisers, etc.):

  1. If you wish to donate to our website, we greatly appreciate it, but please do so anonymously! If we see your donation, and identify it as being 'attached' in some way to a review, we feel it is our duty to inform our readers.
  2. At the end of the day we want to have a positive relationship with vendors; but not at the cost of our values. We ask you understand this, and respect us for it. It only makes our good reviews of your games worth that much more!
  3. With the above said, we do accept requests to review your game(s). Here are our conditions:
    • If you take the time to contact us, we certainly want to have a positive relationship with you. We will work with you to ensure our review is fair—allowing you to provide feedback, correct factual mistakes, acknowledge bugs, etc.
    • We do not accept "bribe-like" influences on the content of our reviews. Period. Our value to readers is we are 100% honest with 100% integrity.
    • Your game MUST have a strong co-operative aspect to it. Not just Capture-the-flag.
    • Your game must be complete, or nearly complete. We do not review alpha or early-mid beta games.
    • If you wish to give us your game we will need 2 copies—for obvious reasons. Understand that this does not entitle your game to a good review, but it does, however, move your game well up in our queue of games to review.
    • We are not lawyers, we don't have the time or money to hire one to read legalese. For this reason, we will not sign contracts that require us to say/not say anything, except for time-related restrictions (e.g. reviewed not posted before a certain date).