Metacritic - best video games of all time list (2021 YE)

henke on 27/12/2021 at 09:16

Tho sometimes the amount of metacritic scores isn't related at all to commercial success. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/488860/MADNESS_Project_Nexus/) Madness: Project Nexus, which came out a few months ago, has 6550 (Overwhelmingly Positive) Steam reviews and (https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/madness-project-nexus) not a single metacritic score.

Also, to toot my own horn for a bit, Stilt Fella has zero metacritic scores and more Steam user reviews (658 at the moment) than plenty of games that did get reviews.

Yakoob on 28/12/2021 at 00:11

I forgot the author, but there was a tweet from a super successful indie game recently about the cognitive dissonance of having like over 10k positive reviews on steam and not a single press review on metacritic.

And same with Headline or RoYP, we didn't have any PC reviews on launch either and it still did fine lol. Honestly, YouTubers have had bigger impact on my games than anything else.

That's also largely how I feel, at least in PC space. Press will review your game if it's successful, but press reviews will not make you successful.