Not all bot reviews have been removed. Fake reviews aren't addressed
One might assume that low score indicates the remaining reviews are genuine. This is not the case. There's 68 positive reviews in the last 30 days. At least 4 of them are bot reviews, 7 are fake reviews from friends and family members of FG employees, and 1 review is from one of the developers directly. So the number is artificially inflated by 21.4% (56 -> 68). And that's only the most obvious and easily identifiable ones. There's a handful of other suspicious reviews, some of which come from private accounts, so I'd be really surprised if this is the final number.
Review bots first.
Things are pretty self-explanatory here, so it'll be just screenshots after a couple of notes. Bot #1 is an interesting one, because it has a pretty high playtime - 93.5 hours. So it might also be boosting playcount numbers. This ain't much, but it's something. What completely gave him away is how games from the last 17 reviews were accumulating playtime simultaneously, in a synchronized manner. All games were sitting at 13.1 hours (5.6 hours at review time). 1.5 hours later I've noticed all 17 were at 14.6 hours. Now, as you can see, the number is 42.8 hours. Bots #2, #3, #4 have pages of similar reviews.
Bot #1, Bot #1, Bot #1, Bot #2, Bot #3, Bot #4
Now onto fake reviews from friends and family members of FG employees.
All 7 accounts have the same employee in their friend list, left reviews around the same time, have extremely low playtime, and, most importantly, never played the game after leaving a review. Not to mention how generic some of these messages are or how most of them leave their 1st or 2nd review. So they had such strong feelings towards Stormgate that they left their 1st review and... decided that the game is too good to be played.
1 review from a dev has been linked countless times on the sub, so it's common knowledge at this point. It has a disclaimer now, but it still artificially inflates the score.
Talking about the score. There's 203 reviews in the last 30 days. 68 positive, 135 negative. 33.5% score. If we remove bot reviews and fake reviews - the score goes down to 29.3%. A pretty significant difference of 4%.
If you only care about the overall score - it's negligible. But it raises an important question of trust. How can we be sure that review bots weren't targeting Stormgate before? When playercounts were higher and it was easier to hide their activity. Or that fake reviews weren't slowly dripping ever since Early Access. Who knows, maybe one day we'll get an honest answer to these questions from Mr. Voidlegacy.