Microsoft was Metacritic's Highest-Rated Publisher in 2021

Microsoft topped Metacritic's annual game publisher rankings with an average score of 87.4 – the highest in the 12 years of the rating's existence. 

Every year, Metacritic ranks publishers based on a points system, calculated according to four factors: 

• Average Metascore for all games released in 2021
• Percentage of scored products with “good” reviews (Metascore of at least 75)
• Percentage of scored products with “bad” reviews (Metascore of 49 or lower)
• Number of “great” titles (Metascore of 90 or higher)

Only publishers that released five and more games are included in the rankings, with only critics' reviews taken into account.

Microsoft managed to top the rating by not only getting the highest average in the history of the rankings but also by having 100% of "good" and 3 "great" games – Forza Horizon 5, Psychonauts 2, and the Xbox Series X version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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