Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 beats TotK to become highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2023 Nintendo, Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has overtaken The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s Metacritic score, making it the highest-rated 2023 game to date. The competition for 2023\u2019s Game of the Year started heating up before the year even got underway. Many people\u2019s short lists have long included Tears of the Kingdom, Starfield, and Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2. While the latter two have yet to arrive, another game just entered the running as a GOTY contender \u2013 Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. The RPG is already dominating the sales charts, with positive word-of-mouth even inspiring an uptick in pre-order sales on PSN. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is nothing short of a critical hit, too, with critics and players shouting its praises at every turn. Surprisingly, such praise has allowed the new title to topple The Legend of Zelda\u2019s latest adventure on Metacritic. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is now 2023\u2019s best-rated game on Metacritic The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom comfortably enjoys a very high 96 Metascore, which previously made it this year\u2019s highest-rated title. For a time, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 shared the same Metascore. That much has changed in the last couple of days, however. Larian\u2019s newest Baldur\u2019s Gate epic now sits at an outstanding 97 on Metacritic, securing its place as 2023\u2019s best-rated video game, thus far. The screenshot below shows how the two stack up against one another on Metacritic\u2019s Best Video Games for 2023 list, which is in order of highest to lowest-rated releases. It\u2019s worth noting that these standings could change at any time, particularly where Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is concerned. After all, not every outlet has reviewed the RPG as of yet (Dexerto included), with the likes of IGN updating readers on its thoughts with a \u201cReview in Progress.\u201d Regardless, it\u2019s clear Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 will go down as one of 2023\u2019s most critically acclaimed games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 beats TotK to become highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2023 Nintendo, Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has overtaken The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s Metacritic score, making it the highest-rated 2023 game to date. The competition for 2023\u2019s Game of the Year started heating up before the year even got underway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}