Best Games of 2025 So Far Metacritic's Top Rated List from January to June Featuring Clair Obscur

Metacritic reveals its list of the best and highest-rated games for the first half of 2025. Discover the top 20 video games from January to June.
A picture from The Talos Principle: Reawakened, a high-rated gam
A picture from The Talos Principle: Reawakened, a high-rated gam

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:

  1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 93/100
  2. Blue Prince - 92/100
  3. Split Fiction - 91/100
  4. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - 90/100
  5. despelote - 89/100
  6. The Talos Principle: Reawakened - 89/100
  7. Monster Hunter Wilds - 88/100
  8. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - 88/100
  9. Monster Train 2 - 88/100
  10. The Roottrees are Dead - 87/100
  11. Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders - 87/100
  12. StarVaders - 87/100
  13. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo - 86/100
  14. Mario Kart World - 86/100
  15. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - 86/100
  16. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - 85/100
  17. Two Point Museum - 84/100
  18. The Alters - 84/100
  19. Keep Driving - 84/100
  20. 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.

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