Forza Horizon 5 is currently the newest game with the highest rating of 2021
As we have seen from the votes of the international reviews, the game is a total success, which is also confirmed by our review of Forza Horizon 5 which culminates with a very high rating, but at the moment the Playground Games title is the one with the highest rating released in 2021, as regards new games.
On OpenCritic at the moment it has a rating of "92" as an average, which puts it in Top of the ranking of games released in 2021, above the Japanese visual novel Bustafellows, Psychonauts 2 and It Takes Two at 89 and a series of other 88-rated titles including Deathloop, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and various others.
On Metacritic it has a metascore of 91 for the version that has obtained the most ratings, that is the Xbox Series X, after 71 reviews collected.
On this aggregator, in the "Best Games of 2021" section, Forza Horizon 5 is positioned under Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, The House in Fata Morgana, Tetris Effect and Hades, but in all these cases it is these are recent editions of games that have been released previously, so for all intents and purposes this is currently the new game - that is, released this year - with the highest rating of 2021, for the moment.
Note however, among the games with the highest ratings of the year there are also various other productions that are now associated with Xbox Game Studios, such as Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Microsoft Flight Simulator console version and Quake Remastered, indicating a decidedly positive trend for first party Microsoft.
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