Switch and PS5 games dominated the first half of the year

Do you feel that the first six months of 2023 were not very good and nothing extra happened? The reverse is also true. We’ve seen a lot of great games. It reminds us, among other things ranking of the top 20 games by ratingthat were published between January 1 and June 30, 2023.

Top rated game in the first half of 2023 – Nintendo Switch Exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with an average rating of 96%. It’s a contender for one of the highest rated games of all time. Should Metroid Prime Remastered with a rating of 94% and another one percent less has Resident Evil 4 Remake.

rating is interesting dominance of PS5 versions of games. Metacritic states that if a game has been released on multiple platforms, only the version with the highest overall number of reviews is included. Usually, but not always, this is the PS5 or PS4 version. We can see it on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The action-adventure from Respawn and EA has an average rating of 85/100 on PS5, while it’s only 78/100 on PC. It has 84/100 on Xbox Series X/S but only 15 reviews. There are 109 such reviews on PS5.

We only see the Xbox Series X/S in Hi-Fi Rush with a rating of 87/100. PS5 and Switch each have 7 games, while PC has 5 games. The rating does not include remasters / remakes that are not much different from the original.