Cyber Stripe is the rating system I use after actually playing a game on ItsZebraTV. The goal is not to pretend one number can describe everything. Simulator games and horror games get different supporting stripes because “this is great” and “this is terrifying” are not the same question.
My overall personal verdict on the game after playing it. This is the quality/recommendation stripe.
How messy, unpredictable or ridiculous the experience became for me. A high chaos score is not automatically better or worse—it describes the kind of experience.
How strongly the game kept pulling me into one more task, one more day, one more upgrade or one more bad business decision.
My overall personal verdict on the horror game, separate from how frightening it was.
How scary the game felt to me across the playthrough: atmosphere, tension, dread and the actual fear factor.
The deliberately unserious panic stripe: how likely the game was to make me jump, panic or regret playing with headphones on.
The scale is personal rather than a claim of objective truth. A 5/5 means the game landed at the top of that stripe for me; a 1/5 means it barely registered there. Some games can still be excellent with a low Chaos, Scariness or Soiled Pants score because those stripes describe the experience rather than replacing the overall Score.
Most whole-number overall scores also get the shorthand tier labels already used throughout the archive: 5/5 is S-Tier, 4/5 is A-Tier, 3/5 is B-Tier, 2/5 is C-Tier and 1/5 is D-Tier. Half scores can appear without forcing them into a misleading whole-number tier.
The extra stripes help recommendation pages stay honest. A horror game can be one of my favorites without being the scariest thing I played. A simulator can be excellent without being chaotic. That makes the site more useful when you are searching for a specific kind of experience instead of just “highest score wins.”