GAMES
Every game in the catalogue has its own room, open all the time. You talk about that game and nothing else. That is what keeps it readable.
A room is attached to a game page: you open it from the Room tab, next to the details and the listings. There is no general channel, no catch-all category, no "free chat" thread.
That is a choice, and it has an effect: on a general forum the conversation about an awaited game drowns in everything else. Here, someone who comes to talk about Grand Theft Auto VI finds exactly the people who came for that.
Every message can take replies and hearts. A message can carry an image: a screenshot, a find, a detail worth showing.
Reviews have their own discussion space: under a review you reply to the review, not to the game. The two do not mix.
No to read. Yes to write, reply or like a message.
No, and that is deliberate: every conversation is attached to the game it is about.
Yes, up to four per message.