If you are wondering which games have received the highest review scores this month then Metacritic has provided a handy mid-year wrap up. Animal Crossing New Horizons is the highest rated Nintendo Switch title and is placed at No.5 and is followed by Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition at No.6. Here’s the top twenty best video games by Metascore.
- Command & Conquer Remastered Collection – 83 / 55 reviews
- MLB The Show 20 – 83 / 39 reviews
- Deep Rock Galactic – 84 / 18 reviews
- If found… – 84 / 14 reviews
- Lair of the Clockwork God – 84 / 10 reviews
- Panzer Corps 2 – 84 / 13 reviews
- Streets of Rage 4 – 84 / 50 reviews
- Desperados III – 85 / 54 reviews
- Monster Train – 85 / 24 reviews
- Nioh 2 – 85 / 90 reviews
- Final Fantasy VII Remake – 87 / 122 reviews
- Legends of Runeterra – 87 / 11 reviews
- Doom Eternal – 88 / 60 reviews
- Dreams – 89 / 79 reviews
- Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition – 89 / 89 reviews
- Animal Crossing New Horizons – 90 / 110 reviews
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps – 90 / 71 reviews
- Half-Life Alyx – 93 / 68 reviews
- The Last of Us Part II – 94 / 114 reviews
- Persona 5 Royal – 95 / 71 reviews
The fact that The Last of Us 2 is higher rated than FF7R, Animal Crossing NH and Xenoblade Chronicles makes me not take Metacritic seriously anymore. TLOU2 was beyond garbage with it’s poor story, dragged out pacing and terrible ending. Nothing like the first game.
They should probably add *according to critic scores. Game reviewers are mostly a joke. You’d be hurting as a gamer if you made all your purchases exclusively off what “games journalists” say.
You do understand the point of metacritic right. You go to the site to see reviews from all platforms. Reading the user reviews is just icing on the cake
100% agree. The 1st was a masterpiece that I’ll always renember. After I read some of the story and watched a few streams I decided not to even get the game and cancelled my preorder. Really gutted as I waited so many years for it.
Glad to see Persona 5 Royal is the top scorer- it truly is a modern masterpiece (even if they somehow made the worst dungeon in the vanilla version worse).