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Reviewer profile

Joe Donnelly

Current outlet: PC Gamer

Previously at: Digital Spy · Eurogamer · GamesRadar+ · PCGamesN

Reviews

25

25 games · 25 scored

Avg score

84

25 scored reviews

Score style

Lenient

+4 vs peer avg · 25 compared

Outlets

5

Digital Spy · Eurogamer · GamesRadar+ · PC Gamer · PCGamesN

Latest

2025

Most recent saved review

Reviewer scoring style

This reviewer currently scores about +4 points above the peer average on games where Critic Atlas has comparable scored reviews.

How to use this

A higher-than-peer score from this reviewer may be less meaningful by itself. Look for cases where they are unusually high or low compared with their own baseline.

Based on 25 compared reviews against other scored reviews for the same games.

Review history

How this reviewer maps across games

Review history follows the reviewer as a person, even if they have moved between outlets. Each review keeps the outlet where it was originally published.

Showing 1-25 of 25 reviews

Rise of the Ronin

PC Gamer

Rise of the Ronin review

Published 3/14/2025

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Reviewer assigned from OpenCritic API author data during automated unresolved-reviewer resolver.

Score

49

-23 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Ultros review: "A drop-dead gorgeous head trip of a Metroidvania game set in a cosmic uterus sarcophagus" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 2/12/2024

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Score

90

+11 vs game avg

Review

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

GamesRadar+

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown review: "It gets so much right, but falls short of greatness" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 1/11/2024

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Score

80

-5 vs game avg

Review

The Talos Principle II

GamesRadar+

The Talos Principle 2 review: "One of the best puzzle games of all time" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 11/2/2023

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Score

90

+3 vs game avg

Review

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

GamesRadar+

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: "Quite simply the best superhero game yet" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 10/16/2023

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Score

100

+15 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Blasphemous 2 review | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 8/17/2023

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Score

90

+4 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Viewfinder Review: "A breath of fresh air" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 7/17/2023

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Score

100

+18 vs game avg

Review

The Last Case of Benedict Fox

GamesRadar+

The Last Case of Benedict Fox review: "A detective Metroidvania that's its own conundrum" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 5/4/2023

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Score

60

-8 vs game avg

Review

Dead Space (2023)

GamesRadar+

Dead Space review: "A sublime mix of fresh, familiar, and freaking terrifying" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 1/26/2023

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Score

90

+1 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Sniper Elite 5 review: "Brilliant and brutal" | GamesRadar+GamesRadar+GamesRadar+NewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 5/25/2022

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Score

90

+11 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Sifu review: "Satisfying and addictive, nuanced and intuitive" | GamesRadar+Games RadarGames RadarNewsaramaTotal FilmEdge

Published 2/6/2022

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Score

90

+9 vs game avg

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction

GamesRadar+

Rainbow Six Extraction review – “A solid shooter held back by its source material” | GamesRadar+

Published 1/19/2022

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Score

70

+5 vs game avg

Review

GamesRadar+

Sable review – "downright beautiful in its execution and storytelling" | GamesRadar+

Published 9/22/2021

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Score

80

+2 vs game avg

Review

PC Gamer

Ashen review

Published 12/18/2018

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Score

85

+5 vs game avg

Review

Football Manager 2019

PC Gamer

Football Manager 2019 review

Published 10/30/2018

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Score

90

+4 vs game avg

Review

Football Manager 2018

PC Gamer

Football Manager 2018 review

Published 11/9/2017

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Score

89

+9 vs game avg

Review

The Evil Within 2

PC Gamer

The Evil Within 2 review

Published 10/16/2017

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Score

80

+1 vs game avg

Review

Eurogamer

Owlboy review

Published 10/28/2016

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Score

80

-8 vs game avg

Review

Ashes of the Singularity

PCGamesN

Ashes of the Singularity review

Published 3/25/2016

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Score

90

+20 vs game avg

Review

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Digital Spy

Metal Gear Solid 5 is a masterpiece

Published 9/8/2015

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Score

100

+8 vs game avg

Review

Digital Spy

Digital Spy Volume Review

Published 8/18/2015

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Score

80

+2 vs game avg

Review

Digital Spy

Digital Spy N++ Review

Published 7/27/2015

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Score

80

-3 vs game avg

Review

Digital Spy

Digital Spy Her Story Review

Published 6/21/2015

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Score

100

+20 vs game avg

Review

Payday 2: Crimewave Edition

Digital Spy

Digital Spy Payday 2: Crimewave Edition Review

Published 6/10/2015

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Score

60

-9 vs game avg

Review

Digital Spy

Digital Spy Sunset Review

Published 5/19/2015

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Score

80

+11 vs game avg

Review