Developer Larian’s anticipated RPG title “Baldur’s Gate 3” has now surpassed Nintendo’s “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” to become the highest-scoring game of the year.
On Metacritic, the game has racked up a 97/100 from 20 reviews thus far. That beats the new ‘Zelda’ by one point (96), but it doesn’t have anywhere near as many reviews as that Switch game.
Part of the problem is critics only recently got the game which has a rather large density. The average playthrough of the main story will reportedly take “between 75 and 100 hours” according to developers.
One thing it does bring is genuine competition for the ‘Game of the Year’ honors which ‘Zelda’ seemingly had in the bag until this came along. User scores are at 9.3/10, suggesting no divide this time with critics.
It follows a strong year for games with the “Resident Evil 4” remake at 93, “Street Fighter 6” at 92 and “Diablo 4” at 91. More major titles on the way, including “Starfield” and “Spider-Man 2” could see those strong score ranks swell.
“Baldur’s Gate 3” launched on PC on August 3rd and is coming to PlayStation 5 on September 3rd. No word on an Xbox release date at this time.
