Quarterly Report: The 25 Best PC Games

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 April.

Best-reviewed PC games of 2018

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

	Game		Buy It	Metascore
1		Into the Breach		90
		The second release from the team behind the indie hit Faster Than Light is a turn-based strategy game played out on procedurally generated 8-by-8 grids.
2	DUSK			89
3	Dead Cells			89
4	Return of the Obra Dinn			89
5	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire		Buy From Amazon	88
6	Monster Hunter: World			88
7	Celeste			88
8	Subnautica			87
9	Forza Horizon 4			87
10	Unavowed			87
11	Iconoclasts			87
12	Yakuza 0			86
13	Football Manager 2019			86
14	Assassin's Creed Odyssey			86
15	CrossCode			85
16	Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition			85
	Guacamelee! 2			85
18	Dragon Ball FighterZ			85
19	Batman: The Enemy Within - Episode 5: Same Stitch			85
20	Full Metal Furies			85
21	Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales			85
22	Sprint Vector			84
23	Destiny 2: Forsaken			84
24	Total War: WARHAMMER II - Rise of the Tomb Kings			84
25	Frostpunk		Buy From Amazon	84
... and the worst-reviewed:
240	Past Cure			48
241	Agony			47
242	Fear Effect Sedna			42
243	Underworld Ascendant			38
244	Super Seducer: How to Talk to Girls			35

Includes games released between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018 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 December 31, 2018.

Best-reviewed PC games of all time

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

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.