It’s still a few days into 2023, but many places are still looking back at last year’s biggest and best games. And review aggregator site Metacritic is participating, compiling multiple lists based on aggregated reviews from multiple publications.
Today, the website revealed Switch’s best rated game of 2022. Top 40 has some real giants like Triangle Strategy, Legendary Pokémon: Arceus, Splatoon 3and Kirby and the Forgotten Landand there’s a really catchy mix of indie works like Signal tree (which one of us in particular really love and write about), helland sleeping citizen.
But in particular, the top 10 is a delightful mix of long-awaited ports and indie favorites, with only one Nintendo Switch exclusive making the list and only two. scores above 90 — both gates.
So without further ado, here are the top ten highest rated Nintendo Switch games of 2022 based on Metacritic (with their total scores in brackets):
ten. Stanley Parable: Extremely luxurious (eighty seven)
9. 13 Guards: The Aegis . Belt (88)
8. Cuphead – The ultimate delicacy (88)
7. Ao Dai (88)
6. White Neon (88)
5. Atari 50: Celebration (89)
4. NieR:Automata Ending Version of YoRHa (89)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (89)
2. Royal Character 5 (ninety four)
first. Portal: Companion Collection (96)
All great games – which many reviewers agree, hence the high overall score! You can see the full list of the top 40 on Metacritic.
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