Every listing on this site has to clear the same mechanical bar before it's posted. No manual curation, no sponsored placements, no "deal of the day" picked because a publisher wants visibility. Here's the actual criteria:
- A real price drop. The current price has to be meaningfully lower than the game's own 90-day average price — not compared to a list price or MSRP that may never have been the real selling price.
- In stock and sold normally. Out-of-stock listings and oddities (resellers marking up a scarce item, for instance) are excluded.
- A minimum rating and review count. Filters out knockoffs, mislabeled listings, and games with too little signal to know if they're actually good.
- A sane price range. Extremely cheap or extremely expensive outliers are excluded since they're rarely a "deal" in any useful sense.
The price history data comes from Keepa, a third-party Amazon price-tracking service, not from scraping Amazon's site directly. That means the "was" price shown next to each deal is a 90-day average, not whatever number a listing happened to show yesterday.
Worth saying plainly: a game clearing this bar doesn't mean it's the right game for you, just that the price is genuinely lower than usual. Whether it's worth buying still depends on whether you'd enjoy playing it.