The best video games of 2024, according to Metacritic

It’s pretty rare in the gaming industry for everyone to agree on something. There will always be naysayers in every crowd, but a site like Metacritic is a good way to gauge what the overall vibe of a game is in the community. While middling receptions are fairly common, a few times a year there are games so good that even the harshest of critics can’t help but sing their praises, and it’s those games that we want to highlight. We’ve gone through every game released in 2024 and picked out the ones that got the very best critic score on Metacritic. The Tekken series has always been one of the kings of the fighting game genre and Tekken 8 made sure no one was going to forget that fact, proving to be the best-received Tekken game in quite some time. It received near-universal praise for being one of the best modern fighting games out there and revitalizing the series’ competitive scene. Sometimes it pays to be unapologetically weird, and Thank Goodness You’re Here! is one of the most brilliantly weird games I’ve