The Best PC Games of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 1, 2023

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

1 of 14 photo by Patrick Traynor

#31-40

(tied at #39) 84 Never Awake

(tied at #39) 84 Patrick's Parabox
(pictured above) The indie puzzler from one-man studio Patrick Traynor offers more than 350 sokoban (box-pushing) puzzles whose often recursive solutions require strategic placement of boxes within boxes within boxes (or, rather paradoxically, within themselves).

(#38) 84 Prodeus

(#37) 84 Wylde Flowers

(#36) 84 Gordian Quest

(#35) 84 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

(#34) 84 Betrayal At Club Low

(#33) 84 Infernax

(#32) 84 Red Matter 2

(#31) 84 OlliOlli World: VOID Riders

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