Metacritic's game rating ranking for the first half of the year was officially released, sorted based on the Metascore rating as of June 25, 2025.

The rules of the election game are as follows:

Received ratings from at least 7 professional review media

Multi-platform games only include the most reviewed versions (usually PS5 version)

Exclude the following types of works:

New platform ported version of previous works*

Expansion Pack/DLC Content

Mobile Games

Collection replica

"Ultimate Edition"/Game of the Year

*Note: If the ported version has major innovations compared to the original version (such as HD remakes across multiple generations of hardware and contains new content), you are eligible for selection.

Here is the list of the top 20 games ratings

No. 20: End of Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist (PC) MC Rating: 84

No. 19: Keep Driving (PC) MC Rating: 84

No. 18: Two Point Museum (PC) MC Rating: 84

No. 17: The Alters (PC) MC Rating: 85

No. 16: Hundred Days War Chronicle - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (Switch) MC Rating: 85

No. 15: Deep Sky Dreamer 2: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (PC) MC Rating: 86

No. 14: Mario Kart World (Switch 2) MC Rating: 86

No. 13: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (PC) MC Rating: 86

No. 12: Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (PC) MC Rating: 87

No. 11: StarVaders (PC) MC Rating: 87

No. 10: The Roottrees are Dead (PC) MC Rating: 87

No. 9: Monster Train 2 (PC) MC Rating: 88

No. 8: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (PC) MC Rating: 88

No. 7: Monster Hunter Wilds (PS5) MC Rating: 88

No. 6: The Talos Principle: Reawakened (PC) MC Rating: 89

No. 5: Street Football (despelote) (PC) MC Rating: 89

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (PS5) MC Rating: 90

No. 3: Split Fiction (PS5) MC Rating: 91

No. 2: Blue Prince (PC) MC Rating: 92

No. 1: Light and Shadow: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PS5) MC Rating: 93