Devs: How to get your game reviewed?

[fairlady]

Do any of the other devs out there have advice on how to get your game reviewed? We're getting great customer reviews, but it would be nice to be able to put some quotes from review sites into our Appstore description. Thanks!

[Oliver]

I'm no dev, but from a reviewers perspective:

1. Have a polished, unique game (or complete crap).
2. Offer promo codes (most review sites do not have money)
3. Offer a lite version or something else to give reviewers a copy of your game, which cannot use promo codes
4. Send a nice mail with the appropriate information on the game, release date, description, video link.

[PoV]

Contacting each site directly with a freebie (Ad Hoc's back in the day/non US sites). Many sites are just as flooded with new games these days, so you *must* do this for them to see you at all. Many sites exercise editorial control these days, so it'll be hard to get noticed as something that isn't unique.

Many sites have backlogs, so don't expect a next day review.

[Wegmans]

I would think you could just go ahead and quote people from the site here...

All you'd have to do is say something like:
"User Oliver from TouchArcade.com says 'This game is freaking awesome!' " or something along those lines.
if you're looking directly for a specific website's take on it, probably send a promo code out, and they'll most likely get back to you shortly with a review! Good luck!

[VWXYZ]

To sum up:

send promo code to review site with a nice mail asking them to do a review!

Last time I heard GameTrailers.com said they reviewed every single game people send to them (they said so on a podcast at least)
And well.. they don't usually do App reviews, and they said it before the App Store

just send it to Kotaku! if it gets a good review from Kotaku you are pretty much garenteed a server crash! (thats how things often go when on Kotaku)

[yourofl10]

send promo codes or ad hoc (thats how i write reviews for my website is by getting promo codes but i do take ad hoc also)

[PlayScreen]

Unless you get a review by a major site (TUAW, PocketGamer) it will not effect sales all that much.

[PoV]

GameTrailers put my video up, but they don't have a direct iPhone games page link, so you only ever saw it in the main feed. Mobile is the "non" iPhone section. You can expect about 1000 eyeballs before it's old news.

[yourofl10]

Originally Posted by Dorfdad

Yeah go to our sites and contact us

See my link!

and click on my developers tab for info on getting a review done.

yea please contact us! See my website for more info (in signature)