Our "Quarterly Reports" provide a handy list of the 25 best games for each platform, both for the current year so far and for all time. There's a separate report for each platform, and they will be updated again during the first week in July.

Best-reviewed PC games of 2013 (as of April 1st)

	Game		Publisher	Metascore
1		BioShock Infinite	2K Games	95
		The best PC game of 2013 so far is also the best PS3 and 360 game of the year: the third installment in the BioShock series.
2	Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm		Blizzard Entertainment	86
3	Bit.Trip Presents...Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien		Gaijin Games	86
4	Tomb Raider		Square Enix	86
5	DmC: Devil May Cry		Capcom	85
6	Antichamber		Demruth	82
7	Kentucky Route Zero - Act I		Cardboard Computer	82
8	Brutal Legend		Double Fine Productions	80
9	Proteus		Twisted Tree	80
10	Euro Truck Simulator 2		SCS Software	80
11	Dead Space 3		Electronic Arts	77
12	Ace Combat Assault Horizon: Enhanced Edition		Namco Bandai	77
13	Crysis 3		EA Games	76
14	Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt		2K Games	75
15	The Bridge		The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild	73
16	March of the Eagles		Paradox Interactive	72
17	Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Episode 2 - The Wise Monkey		Phoenix Online Studios	72
18	Resident Evil 6		Capcom	71
19	Richard & Alice		Denby / Raze	71
20	Retrovirus		Cadenza	70
21	The Cave		Sega	68
22	The Showdown Effect		Paradox Interactive	67
23	Dungeonland		Paradox Interactive	67
24	Strike Suit Zero		Born Ready Games	65
25	SimCity		Electronic Arts	64
... and the worst-reviewed:
30	Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2		City Interactive	51
31	Special Forces: Team X		Atari	48
32	Aliens: Colonial Marines		Sega	44
33	Impire		Paradox Interactive	44
34	Seduce Me		No Reply Games	41

Includes games released between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 with at least seven reviews in our database. Note that games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. The Metascore is a weighted average of critic reviews on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good). All scores are from April 1, 2013.

Best-reviewed PC games of all time

Games released during the last three months (if any) are marked with a symbol.

	Game	Publisher	Metascore
1	Half-Life 2 (2004)	VU Games	96
2	The Orange Box (2007)	EA Games	96
3	Half-Life (1998)	Sierra Entertainment	96
4	BioShock (2007)	2K Games	96
5	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)	Interplay	95
6	BioShock Infinite (2013)	2K Games	95
7	Portal 2 (2011)	Valve Software	95
8	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)	Bethesda Softworks	94
9	Mass Effect 2 (2010)	Electronic Arts	94
10	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2003)	Rockstar Games	94
11	Civilization II (1996)	MicroProse	94
12	Quake (1996)	id Software	94
13	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)	2K Games	94
14	Grim Fandango (1998)	LucasArts	94
15	Diablo (1996)	Blizzard Entertainment	94
16	Sid Meier's Civilization IV (2005)	2K Games	94
17	Company of Heroes (2006)	THQ	93
18	Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004)	Atari	93
19	Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010)	Blizzard Entertainment	93
20	Minecraft (2011)	Mojang AB	93
21	Homeworld (1999)	Sierra Entertainment	93
	Grand Theft Auto III (2002)	Rockstar Games	93
23	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)	LucasArts	93
24	World of Warcraft (2004)	Blizzard Entertainment	93
25	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2005)	Rockstar Games	93

Games with fewer than 7 reviews are not eligible for inclusion.

For a complete list of all PC high (and low) scores, visit Metacritic's PC Games section.