Best-reviewed PC games of 2012

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Quarterly Report: The 25 Best PC Games

Our "Quarterly Reports" provide a handy list of the 25 best games for each platform, both for the current year so far and for all time. There's a separate report for each platform, and they will be updated again during the first week in April.

Best-reviewed PC games of 2012

Games released during the last three months (if any) are marked with a  symbol.

	Game		Publisher	Metascore
1		Dishonored	Bethesda Softworks	91
		A stealth action-adventure title with a steampunk design, Dishonored is the rare top-ranked game to be an original property rather than a sequel, spinoff, reboot, or remake.
2	Mark of the Ninja		Microsoft Game Studios	91
3	Guild Wars 2		NCsoft	90
4	The Walking Dead: Episode 5 - No Time Left		Telltale Games	89
5	Borderlands 2		2K Games	89
6	Thirty Flights of Loving		Blendo Games	89
7	XCOM: Enemy Unknown		2K Games	89
8	Mass Effect 3		Electronic Arts	89
9	Far Cry 3		Ubisoft	88
10	Torchlight II		Runic Games	88
11	Diablo III		Blizzard Entertainment	88
12	Max Payne 3		Rockstar Games	87
13	Battlefield 3: Armored Kill		Electronic Arts	87
14	Football Manager 2013		Sega	86
15	Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai		Sega	86
16	Black Mesa		Black Mesa Modification Team	86
17	Tribes: Ascend		Hi-Rez Studios	86
18	Rayman Origins		Ubisoft	86
19	Out of the Park Baseball 13		Out Of The Park Developments	85
20	Hotline Miami		Dennaton	85
21	Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition		Namco Bandai Games America	85
22	The Walking Dead: Episode 3 - Long Road Ahead		Telltale Games	85
23	The Walking Dead: Episode 2 - Starved for Help		Telltale Games	84
24	PlanetSide 2		Sony Online Entertainment	84
25	FTL: Faster Than Light		Subset Games	84
... and the worst-reviewed:
178	Deep Black: Reloaded		Just A Game	39
179	Realms of Ancient War		Focus Home Interactive	39
180	Legends of Pegasus		Kalypso	35
181	Hoodwink		E-One Studio	29
182	Fray		Brain Candy	27

Includes games released between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012 with at least seven reviews in our database. Note that games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. The Metascore is a weighted average of critic reviews on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good). All scores are from December 30, 2012.