
The good: Seven different PS4 releases scored 90 or higher in 2018, which is the highest total in years. It was a mix of good news and bad news for Sony's console in 2018. Now, let's take a look at the best games of 2018 by platform. Only games with 7 or more reviews are included in this and every other list that follows. Games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. The 90+ Club: The Best-Reviewed Games of 2018 (Any Platform*)ĭivinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.Īnd here are 2018's best-reviewed titles, regardless of platform: The pie charts reflect the percentage of all releases for each console with Positive Reviews (receiving a Metascore of 75 or higher indicating), Mixed Reviews (receiving a Metascore of 50- 74), and Negative Reviews (receiving a Metascore of 49 or below). ** Titles not available on any other platform excludes games with fewer than 7 reviews but does include DLC.Īll Metascore data for this and all other tables in this report is from December 31, 2018. * Games with 4 or more reviews in Metacritic's database released between Januand Decem(based on North American release dates, except in cases where a game has not been released in North America).

Before that, here's a quick look at how each of the gaming platforms compared during the past year. Still, that's an impressive total, made all the more welcome by the fact that it includes several brand new IPs, including Dead Cells and Celeste.Ī bit further down the page, you'll find this year's best-reviewed games for each console (plus sections on PC and handheld games). True, some of those great "newcomers" were merely ports of older titles to the new-ish Switch console. But in 2018, that total shot up to 17 (which translated into 24 total products, thanks to many multi-platform releases). A year ago, in 2017, 10 different titles scored in the nineties.

Two years ago, only six games scored 90 or higher.

That's not a surprise, obviously-and it's still a great accomplishment, given that only two other games have achieved a similar 97 score in the past five years-but what is a pleasant discovery is the sheer number of great games released in 2018. We're pretty sure you already know this, but Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 is the past year's best-reviewed game.
