Baldur's Gate 3 Bests Zelda; Battle for Title of Best Rated Game of 2023 Continues [Update]

Source: Larian Studios

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Update

Baldur's Gate 3 currently has 26 ratings on Metacritic and still maintains a lead over the latest Zelda with a score of 97/100. What's more, the title has just been named the best rated game in the history of OpenCritic, which was happily announced on X (Twitter) by Tom Butler of Larian Studios.

At the same time, the game established a new all-time activity recordon Steam. Yesterday, 875,343 people played the gameon Valve's platform - approximately 4,000 people less than needed to break this year's record of Hogwarts Legacy .

Original news

Baldur's Gate 3 is currently the hottest title on the market. The immense popularity of the game has made it overtake The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Metacritic when it comes to the average rating from critics.

BG3 on top, Link in second place

Despite the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 is currently the best-rated game on Metacritic, this does not mean that it will remain so until the end of the year. This is due not only to the fact that several more strong games will hit the market (such as Starfield), but also from the number of available' reviews - Larian Studios' game has far fewer reviews so far than the latest installment of Link's adventures..

1. Currently Baldur's Gate 3 has an average rating of 97/100 on Metacritic from critics. In contrast Tears of the Kingdom can boast a score of 96/100.
2. As of this moment Baldur's Gate 3 however, has received only 14 full reviews from critics (that is, with a rating). The Legend of Zelda on the other hand, boasts as many as 145 ratings.
3. It is worth remembering that Baldur's Gate 3 is yet to appear on the PlayStation 5 console.

Let's add that the latest installment of Baldur's Gate has recently received several hundred improvements, and more editorial reviews are on the way (including ours), so the situation will change dynamically. Nintendo's exclusive, on the other hand, can boast high sales, reaching about 20 million copies.

List of the best-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic

Here are the next spots on the list of the ten best-rated games of 2023 according to Metacritic.

1. 1st place: Baldur's Gate 3 (PC) - 97/100
2. 2nd place: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) - 96/100
3. 3rd place: Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch) - rating 94/100
4. 4th place: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition (Xbox Series X) - 94/100
5. 5th place: Tetris Effect: Connected (PS5) - 93/100
6. 6th place: Resident Evil 4 (PS5) - 93/100
7. 7th place Street Fighter 6 (PC) - 92/100
8. 8th place: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Switch) - 92/100
9. 9th place: Street Fighter 6 (PS5) - 92/100
10. 10th place: Diablo IV (Xbox Series X) - 91/100

There will probably be changes in the Top 10. Recall that there are still a few high-profile launches to come this year - among them the aforementioned Starfield or Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

1. Zelda Tears of the Kingdom - game guide
2. Baldurs Gate 3 - game guide