{"id":1075540,"date":"2026-01-22T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eEbHGGmDusZz4nTdBrqCfd"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:26:05","slug":"pc-gamers-highest-review-scores-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pc-gamers-highest-review-scores-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Gamer’s highest review scores of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the one hand, “score inflation” is a real concern we discuss. We think a game should have to be really special to receive a 90%, so when we start talking about a 94% or a 95%, the game in question ought to make us feel like the guy in the galaxy brain meme with light beams shooting out of his head. As a group, we’ve still never awarded a score higher than 98%, and the pages of PC Gamer’s UK edition have yet to see a score above 97%, which was only given last year to Baldur’s Gate 3. PC Gamer is 30 years old.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, sometimes your reviewers come to you and say, look, I know this has the appearance of an ASCII game from the ’80s, but it’s amazing, incredible, fantastic, brilliant. 94%! And you ask them some questions, and ask other editors what they think, and play it for yourself a bit, and a little while later you’re doing a water ritual with a guy named Abbashaphat Mordecai which causes your reputation with “newly sentient beings” to decrease, and so you decide, alright: 94% it is.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the games are just good. That was true a lot this year.<\/p>\n

Of course, a score is just shorthand for how a reviewer felt about a game, and lots of games don’t get high scores from us even though plenty of people think they’re brilliant, including people at PC Gamer. Most games don’t get a score from us at all, because we can’t possibly review everything, and don’t typically score early access games. In other words, this is not a comprehensive list of the best games of the year, and in fact some of our 2024 GOTY Award winners<\/a> aren’t on it. And yet it’s still a pretty big list. 2024 perhaps wasn’t the splashiest year for PC gaming, but bad? Definitely not.<\/p>\n

Here are PC Gamer’s highest review scores of 2024:<\/p>\n

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