2025 Has 2 Games With a 90 Review Score So Far

Summary

2025 has seen the release of highly acclaimed games like Split Fiction and Blue Prince with critic scores of 90 or higher.
Other notable 2025 games include Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds, which both have 89.

To date, two 2025 new releases have managed to earn a critic score of 90: Split Fiction and Blue Prince. 2025 has been an exceptionally busy year for the gaming industry, with the last four months seeing all kinds of high-profile new releases and exciting announcements. When it's all said and done, 2025 will likely go down as one of the most exciting years in the history of the industry.

There is a lot to look forward to this year. The Nintendo Switch 2 will launch in June, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is set for a fall 2025 release. Those events alone will make 2025 one to remember for gaming, but there are many other exciting new releases for fans to look forward to in the months ahead.

Split Fiction Is Already a Massive Hit

Hazelight Studios' latest co-op adventure Split Fiction hits another major sales milestone just a week after the game's launch.

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By Erik Petrovich

While gamers wait for new games, they can spend their time playing the high-quality titles that have already been released in 2025. We're not even four full months into 2025 and there have already been multiple critically-acclaimed new game releases, with two titles in particular standing out from the pack. Hazelight's Split Fiction and Dogubomb's Blue Prince have the distinction of being the two 2025 new releases that have earned a 90 or above average critic score. This level of critical acclaim will ensure that both games are on the short list for various award nominations at the end of the year.

Highest-Rated Games of 2025 So Far

Split Fiction - 90
Blue Prince - 90
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 89
Monster Hunter Wilds - 89
Keep Driving - 89
Expelled! - 86
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - 86
Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist - 85
Two Point Museum - 85
Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark - 84

Split Fiction is a fantastic co-op game from Hazelight Studios, the team behind A Way Out and It Takes Two. Split Fiction combines fantasy and sci-fi elements to great effect, throwing a constant barrage of exciting platforming challenges at the player. Its widespread critical acclaim is well-deserved, and it is definitely a must-play.

Blue Prince, meanwhile, is a brand-new first-person puzzle game with a unique roguelike twist. In it, players map out their own take on a mansion while solving puzzles, collecting supplies, and trying to unravel the overarching mystery. It's got plenty of charm, and it's really no surprise that it's earned such high scores as well.

Other fantastic 2025 games include Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which will be adding a Hardcore Mode in a new update, and Monster Hunter Wilds, the latest entry in the long-running action-RPG series from Capcom. Keep Driving, Expelled!, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Two Point Museum, and Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark round out the top 10 highest-rated games of 2025 so far.