Best Video Game of 2021 as voted by Metacritic users (12th annual user vote)

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Participants were asked to rank their five favorite titles of 2021 in each category, and we assigned a value of 5 points to each first-place vote, 4 points for second place, and so on down to 1 point for each fifth-place vote.

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It was the closest race we could remember in the history of our annual user poll

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1. Deathloop - 1299 points
2. Halo Infinite - 1296
3. Metroid Dread - 1127
4. Forza Horizon 5 - 1061
5. It Takes Two - 989
6. FFXIV Endwalker - 898
7. RE Village - 731
8. Psychonauts 2 - 721
9. Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart - 582
10. Returnal - 515
11. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - 299
12. Shin Megami Tensei V - 224
13. Hitman 3 - 219
14. Tales of Arise - 183
15. Kena: Bridge of Spirit - 176

Metacritic Users Pick the Best of 2021

The results of our 12th annual poll are in! Find out which games, movies, TV shows, and albums topped our users' best of 2021 lists.

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Regarding movies, Dune won, series : Succession.

 

[M. Wallace]

Dune, yay. Succession, yay. Deathloop, eww.

 

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Xbox Game Studios bodying the poll.

 

[Powerofthecloud]

Xbox Game Studios bodying the poll.

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Oh ffs, they had good games this year and one the first replies is that?

Edit: This is my bad I think I misunderstood the intent of the post.

 

[Hella]

Shoutout to the 989 souls claimed by Dr. Hakim.

 

[DNAbro]

Surprised at Deathloop cause it felt like the audience response was a lot more tepid than the critical one.

 

[ILikeFeet]

so many points for Deathloop, but it doesn't look to be reflected in sales

 

[Lobster Roll]

Oh ffs, they had good games this year and one the first replies is that?

Edit: This is my bad I think I misunderstood

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Haha yeah you misunderstood. I was complimenting them.

 

[CharlesAznable]

Surprised Deathloop won. I knew critical reception was good, but WOM for this always seemed pretty muted.

 

[Bedameister]

That's a damn fine list

 

[Ushay]

Halo smashed it to 2nd place and not even been out that long.

Still, all those in the list are top games.

 

[Kasey]

Damn Halo vs Deathloop was a photo finish.

 

[ILikeFeet]

shout out to SMT5 making the list

 

[Nimby]

Surprised to see Deathloop come out on top, but dreading the rest of the replies in this thread. I thought the game was fantastic!

Also SMT V even charting at all is nice.

 

[StarPhlox]

I should really get Guardians of the Galaxy

 

[Yuntu]

Weird to see Deathloop so high when its sales seem very muted.

 

[BBboy20]

Halo smashed it to 2nd place and not even been out that

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Feeling young is a hellvu drug.

 

[Prine]

Weird to see Deathloop so high when its sales seem very muted.

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Really? Core gamers make up this poll I'd imagine so it's not surprising a critical darling wins it. Like Dark Souls/Sekiro, respectable sales but widely recognised as excellent, same being applied to DL.

Nice to see Halo back though. Along with Forza. Personally Psychonaughts should in top 4 :)

 

[Yuntu]

Really? Core gamers make up this poll I'd imagine so it's not surprising a critical darling wins it. Like Dark Souls/Sekiro, respectable sales but widely recognised as excellent.

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Its response in user reviews also seemed to not match its critical response.

 

[Prine]

Its response in user reviews also seemed to not match its critical response.

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Do you mean the MC user score? That never means anything, don't read into that, I never do. Usually a place for people to dogpile rather then review.

 

[nib95]

Pretty surprised to see Halo Infinite so far up, but it's a great list.

 

[Yuntu]

Do you mean the MC user score? That never means anything, don't read into that, I never do. Usually a place for people to dogpile rather then review.

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No also stuff like Steam user revies and just sites I visit. I basically only saw some on Era rave about the game.

I dont mean to talk it down, I just didnt think it would place #1 in such a poll because I saw not many people talk positiv about it to that extend.

 

[ghostcrew]

Lovely to see SMTV get so many votes here.

 

[Deleted member 7148]

Ugh, Deathloop.

 

[WalshyB]

Ew Deathloop, shockingly mediocre game

 

[Biosnake]

Nice to see halo so high.

 

[Dennis8K]

Seems like a decent and reasonable list.

Proving once again The Public >>> Gaming Critics

 

[christocolus]

Glad to see Deathloop up there. Halo , Forza and Psychonauts too

 

[nsilvias]

Another list that makes me feel out of touch lol. i only cared for dread and smt v