The Best PC Games of 2021

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 3, 2022

Which PC games impressed professional reviewers the most during the past year? We rank the best-reviewed titles released between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021 by Metascore. Games must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible for inclusion. (All scores listed here are from January 2, 2022.)

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97 Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Metacritic's #1 PC Game of 2021.

(#1) Not content with being the #3 PC game of 2019, Disco Elysium returned this year in a new package that somehow scored even higher with critics. This Final Cut version of the acclaimed detective RPG adds full voice acting for every character (nearly 300!) throughout the game as well as new quests and new music. It's now the definitive version of one of the past decade's most notable games.

“Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is something rare. It’s a re-issued version of an already-beloved game, that manages to eclipse the source material through clever and thoughtful additions that maximise one of the game’s most beautiful assets: its prose. But more than that, it’s the only CRPG that can truly claim to emulate the tabletop experience—not through adherence to statistics or rules or character sheets, but through the simple act of asking questions, and thoughtfully incorporating the answers.” —Shindig

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