Metacritic isn’t perfect. Review bombs happen, negatively impacting a game’s User Score undeservedly. Or maybe many critics simply didn’t understand the appeal of a game, but had to review it anyway, giving it a criminally low Metascore. At the end of the day, how I felt about a specific game is more important to me than how critics and other people felt about it, but it’s still interesting to see what games are considered “the best” by aggregated review scores. If you didn’t like one of these highly rated games, that’s okay, and you’re probably not alone! But the majority has spoken with these, and here they are: the Top 10 Highest Rated Games I’ve Played, according to Metacritic.

Welcome back to another weekly wrap-up of the games I’ve been playing over the past week!

Fair warning: minor spoilers for Trails of Cold Steel II act 1 and act 2 are included! Nothing major, but if you don’t want general plot/situation changes spoiled for you from those acts, you should skip that section.

Click a title to skip to that section. Games contained within this post:

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PC)

Persona 5 Royal has a multitude of new features, and hours of new content. The original game is already known for being a very long endeavor, and Royal only increases its length. It took me and PatronusLight 137 hours to finish our first Royal playthrough! It was an absolute joy returning to the world of Persona 5 again, and experiencing Royal’s new features for the first time. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s dive in!

Welcome back to another weekly wrap-up of the games I’ve been playing over the past week!

Be warned, minor spoilers may be contained within. This week, I discuss the ending of Persona 5 Royal in a very vague way, but it is mentioned nonetheless. If you want to totally avoid all potential spoilers so you can play these games yourself in a blind run, you shouldn’t continue reading!

Click a title to skip to that section. Games contained within this post:

• Late Shift (PC)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)
• Persona 5 Royal (PS4)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PC)

The definition of what makes a game “underrated” probably differs from person to person. The criteria I had in mind when I made this list is very broad: any game that I feel more people should play and/or more people should be talking about. It’s definitely an incredibly subjective topic, but here’s my list of the Top 10 Most Underrated Games!