[svachalek]

I tend to think of most things on about 4 levels. I think it applies to types of board games but also movie and music genres, cuisines, etc:

Flawed: you may not like this, even if you usually like things like this

Good: perfectly serviceable example of this type of thing, if you are interested you will probably like it

Exemplary: people who like this kind of thing tend to agree this is one of the best

Outstanding: you may even like this thing even if you haven’t liked things like this in the past, and if this is your thing then don’t miss it

I find that it’s fairly easy to sort things into the first three buckets by scanning through reviews and comments, but the fourth one is hard because by definition you need atypical reviews. Would be interesting to see an analysis that more or less predicted what reviewers would like and then plucked out positive outliers.