While Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is technically DLC and not a full-fledged game release, it has still earned widespread acclaim, enough to get it an 87 rating. The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure - 84.Four games just barely missed the 90 or above mark, with Path of the Midnight Sun, Hi-Fi Rush, the Dead Space remake, and Vernal Edge all having 89 overalls. Three of these games have even managed to crack the elusive 90 or above, with Metroid Prime Remastered sitting at a 94 overall, the Resident Evil 4 remake having a 92 overall, and 8-Bit Adventures 2 earning an impressive 90 overall rating. So far, 13 games in 2023 have been released that have earned the Mighty rating. RELATED: Metroid Prime Remastered Gets New Physical Reward in My Nintendo Store Games that earn an 84 or above rating are categorized as "Mighty," denoting the best of the best when it comes to new video game releases. When it comes to review aggregate site OpenCritic, games are then organized into different categories to better underscore how they've been received. Review aggregate sites compile professional reviews for games and come up with their average score. Brand-new video games are released on a weekly basis, but there are certainly some games that stand out among the pack. Speaking of PS5 exclusives, Final Fantasy XVI snuck in there at the last possible second, racking up an 88/100 Metascore and taking sixth place overall.īeyond the fairly expected mostly-AAA top 10, the presence of some indies/oddball games on this list is fantastic, especially Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo.The first quarter of 2023 has wrapped up, with 13 games earning particularly high raise from critics. Sony isn’t doing too badly itself, because while it doesn’t command a lead in terms of first-party exclusives, this data does showcase the company’s raw multiplatform dominance. It’s tied with the PS5 in terms of total entries in the top 20, but it also snatched up the top two slots with exclusives. With that in mind, the most obvious takeaway is that Nintendo is killing it. We have also excluded expansion packs and other DLC.” “Multiple hardware generations” would allow Metroid Prime Remastered, Dead Space, and RE4 to claim spots. Metacritic has a qualifier for that, noting: “If a game was released on multiple platforms, we included only the version receiving the largest total number of reviews (usually, but not always, the PS5 or PS4 version).”Ī few remakes and remastered snuck in too, thanks to this clarification: “Multi-game compilations and newly released ports of games released in recent years on other platforms are excluded, unless they are substantially different from the prior release(s) (for example, an HD remaster that also adds some new content or is multiple hardware generations beyond the previous release). Take Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for instance, which has an 85/100 Metascore on PS5, and a 78/100 on PC. Let’s unpack that data for a quick minuteīefore we unpack anything, it’s important to note the nuance of platform choice. Here’s how everything plays out cumulatively, platform-wise: Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society (Switch) – 83.The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (PC) – 84.Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (Switch) – 85.Theatrhythm Final Bar Line (Switch) – 87.The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) – 96/100 Metascore.Metacritic’s top games so far (as of the end of June 2023) Let’s look at the full breakdown without the piecemeal gallery format of Metacritic’s site. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom towers over the competition with a 96/100 combined critic Metascore, followed closely by Metroid Prime Remastered at 94.Īfter that is a decent run from the PS5, cleaning up on multiplatform releases, followed by some smaller games filling in the top 20. Metacritic has released their “top 20 games of 2023 so far” list (which covers January through June), and the results are somewhat expected, but fascinating nonetheless.
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