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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88 It Takes Two

(#7) Released in March, the latest from A Way Out developer Hazelight Studios is another two-player-only action-adventure. While that previous game tasked you and your partner with breaking out of prison, the more emotional It Takes Two casts its two players as a bickering married couple who have been trapped inside the bodies of two of their daughter's handmade dolls. Cooperation is the key to passing a series of tests, reversing the spell, and reuniting with the young girl. Critics praised the game's inventive approach.

“It Takes Two is a spectacular co-op adventure that lays down a path of great gameplay ideas and uses it to play a giddy game of hopscotch. It’s beautiful, breakneck-paced, and bubbling over with creativity, and playfulness and experimentation are rewarded at every turn. If you have any kind of co-op partner in your life, be they spouse, friend, sibling, or other (even a child, though the themes might be too mature for them), It Takes Two is a truly joyful trip you really need to take together.” —IGN

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