The 20 Best Video Games of 2022 So Far
Which games impressed professional reviewers the most during the first half of the year? Above, we rank the best-reviewed videogames released between January 1, 2022 and June 30, 2022 by Metascore. Games must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible for inclusion.
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If a game was released on multiple platforms, we included only the version receiving the largest total number of reviews (usually, but not always, the PS5 or PS4 version).
Multi-game compilations and newly released ports of games released in prior years on other platforms are excluded, unless they are substantially different from the prior release(s) (for example, an HD remaster of a previous-gen game that also adds some new content). We have also excluded DLC.
Was the 2022 Game of the Year released all the way back in February? Certainly, no title released in the weeks since has garnered the same level of acclaim as Elden Ring, a brand new IP and the result of a collaboration between Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin and game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki (of the famed Souls series). Their action/RPG is set in a vast and richly detailed open world and features a fantasy storyline revolving around an all-powerful ring, which, in the game's present, has long been shattered into shards—though the shards are still powerful enough to corrupt anyone who possesses one. You play as an exile (one of the "Tarnished") who seeks to return to the Lands Between to track down the shards and restore the ring to become the Elden Lord. If that sounds easy, you haven't played a From Software game before. If that sounds like one of the best videogames of the past decade, well, it just might be.
“An extraordinary milestone that will likely cast as long of a shadow over other open world games as Dark Souls already did over most action RPGs during the last decade.” —Meristation
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