You choose what gets audited.
Members nominate and vote on the audit queue. The games with the most member votes get researched first — your backlog, our legwork.
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Fund the work. Never buy the scores.
Every audit stays free to read. Memberships pay for the research — the hours of patch-history digging, source verification, and evidence assembly behind each score. Members vote on what gets audited next. Nobody — member, studio, or publisher — can buy a score.
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What membership gets you
Research capacity, not editorial influence. The firewall is absolute.
Read audits before they publish.
Members see completed audits during the review window and can submit evidence or corrections before a score goes live.
Score-change alerts.
When a re-audit moves a score — up or down — members hear it first, with the evidence for why.
Your name in the ledger.
Founding members are credited on the site as the people who funded independent aftercare research when it was nineteen games and a promise.
Search any game. Get a first score.
Members can pull a preliminary audit of any game the index has not covered yet: an automated first pass with cited evidence and a confidence rating. It is labeled PRELIMINARY, never Verified, and never enters the rankings. Five new ones a month. Access switches on automatically the moment you join, using the email you check out with. Open the preliminary search
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The firewall
This is the part that makes the whole thing worth anything.
Members fund
Your $4 pays for research hours, sources, and verification. That's all it buys.
Evidence decides
Every audit goes through the same cited evidence brief and the same published methodology — requested by a member or not.
A human judges
No auto-published scores, ever. A human reviews the evidence and owns the judgment.
Bad news publishes
If your favorite game earns a 40, it publishes at 40. Membership cannot move a score one point.
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Choose your plan
Checkout is handled securely by Stripe. Founding pricing locks for life as long as your membership stays active. Access is automatic: the moment your checkout completes, Stripe confirms your membership and your member email works on the member tools right away. Join with the email you will use there. There is no manual approval step.
Monthly
Full member benefits, billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Yearly
Full member benefits, billed once a year. Two months free vs monthly.
Questions before joining? Email contact@theaftercareindex.com.
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Members only: preliminary audits
A first score for the games the index has not reached yet.
Search any game.
Type a title. If we have audited it, you get the real scorecard. If we have not, your request queues a preliminary audit built from the patch history and the public record. Membership access is automatic at checkout: no waiting, no approval step.
Preliminary means preliminary.
Every preliminary audit carries the label, its evidence, and a confidence rating. None of them are Verified, none of them appear in the rankings, and human review stays a separate step that membership cannot buy.
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Fair questions
Ads answer to advertisers.
Every comparable in this market that took ads eventually shaped coverage around them. A reader-funded index answers to readers. The site stays clean and the incentives stay simple.
Into audits.
Research hours, source access, and verification work. The goal is simple: more audits per month, deeper evidence per audit, and an index nobody can buy.
Anytime, no questions.
Monthly plans stop at the end of the billing month; yearly plans are refunded pro-rata within the first 30 days. Founding pricing stays locked as long as your membership is active.
No.
Publishers and studios cannot buy audits, placement, scores, or corrections. They can submit evidence through the public request form like anyone else — and it's published or rejected on the merits.
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This Week in Scores, by email
Free for everyone, member or not. The week's audits best to worst, once a week.
One email a week, the week's audits best to worst. No spam, unsubscribe anytime. We send a confirmation email first; nothing arrives until you click the link in it.