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 2019

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

	Game		Buy It	Metascore
1		Red Dead Redemption 2		93
		First released in 2018 for consoles, Rockstar's hugely acclaimed (and colossally successful) sequel to its 2010 open-world western made its way to PC in late 2019.
2	Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers			91
3	Disco Elysium			91
4	Tetris Effect			90
5	Resident Evil 2			89
6	Devil May Cry 5			89
7	Slay the Spire			89
8	Unity of Command II			89
9	Asgard's Wrath			88
10	Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice		Buy From Amazon	88
11	Apex Legends		Buy From Amazon	88
12	Baba Is You			87
13	F1 2019			87
14	Sunless Skies			86
15	Valfaris			86
16	Control			85
17	Devotion			85
18	Life is Strange 2: Episode 5 - Wolves			85
19	AMID EVIL			85
20	Total War: Three Kingdoms			85
21	Outer Wilds			85
22	DiRT Rally 2.0			84
23	Manifold Garden			84
24	Eliza			84
25	Football Manager 2020			84
... and the worst-reviewed:
245	Headspun			50
246	Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory			49
247	Devil's Hunt			48
248	Rune II			47
249	Narcos: Rise of the Cartels			46

Includes games released between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 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, 2019.

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.