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Metacritic Rates Top Games from Early 2025
The review site, Metacritic, has shared its usual list for mid-year, pointing out the best video games from January to June 2025. This list shows the games that have won the most praise so far this year.
How the List Came to Be
To keep things fair and current, Metacritic used strict rules for the list.
- Only games from the first six months of 2025 can be on the list.
- The list does not include simple re-launches of old games.
- Remade games are on the list if they fit the rules.
- Each game needs at least seven reviews from writers and bloggers.
- The score shows the best-rated form of the game on all systems.
Top 20 Games of 2025 (January-June)
Here are the 20 games with the highest scores for the first part of the year:
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 93/100
- Blue Prince - 92/100
- Split Fiction - 91/100
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - 90/100
- despelote - 89/100
- The Talos Principle: Reawakened - 89/100
- Monster Hunter Wilds - 88/100
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - 88/100
- Monster Train 2 - 88/100
- The Roottrees are Dead - 87/100
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders - 87/100
- StarVaders - 87/100
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo - 86/100
- Mario Kart World - 86/100
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - 86/100
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - 85/100
- Two Point Museum - 84/100
- The Alters - 84/100
- Keep Driving - 84/100
- Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist - 84/100
Looking Forward
The report says big games like Grand Theft Auto VI are coming next spring. So, this top-20 list might not change much by end of the year, locking in these games as 2025's best.