{"id":122819,"date":"2017-12-23T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122819"},"modified":"2017-12-27T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T22:27:59","slug":"best-video-games-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122819-best-video-games-of-2017","title":{"rendered":"Top-rated games of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Game Awards and GamesRadar\u2019s Golden Joystick awards saw Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild take top honours.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo\u2019s new Zelda game was released for the Switch and WiiU on 3 March and was the year\u2019s most critically-acclaimed game.<\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s PlayStation also had a good year, with Horizon Zero Dawn winning awards and Persona 5 receiving excellent reviews.<\/p>\n<p>To see which games came out on top this year, according to critic reviews, we looked at Metacritic\u2019s game rankings for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 games of 2017 on Metacritic, with at least 50 critic reviews, are listed below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top games of 2017<\/h3>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Top Games on Metacritic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Score<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Platform<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/td>\n<td><strong>97<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Switch, WiiU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Super Mario Odyssey<\/td>\n<td><strong>97<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Switch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Divinity: Original Sin II<\/td>\n<td><strong>93<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PC (Windows)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Persona 5<\/td>\n<td><strong>93<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4, PS3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/td>\n<td><strong>92<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Switch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Horizon Zero Dawn<\/td>\n<td><strong>89<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>What Remains of Edith Finch<\/td>\n<td><strong>88<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4, XONE, PC (Win)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>NieR: Automata<\/td>\n<td><strong>88<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4, PC (Win)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Nioh<\/td>\n<td><strong>88<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4, PC (Win)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Injustice 2<\/td>\n<td><strong>87<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PS4, XONE, PC (Win)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/120246-nintendo-struggling-to-keep-up-with-demand-for-the-switch.html\"><strong>Nintendo struggling to keep up with demand for the Switch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game Awards and GamesRadar\u2019s Golden Joystick awards saw Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild take top honours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,11681,4],"tags":[233,91,22983,22619,71,10065],"class_list":["post-122819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-metacritic","tag-microsoft","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-playstation-4-ps4","tag-sony","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}