Only one of the games on the top ten is completely original.
90 percent of Metacrtitic’s top ten highest-rated games of 2023 so far are remasters and remakes, with Hi-Fi Rush acting as the only wholly original game to make the list so far.
We might only be in March, but it seems like we’ve already got tons of great games to be talking about, including Dead Space, Resident Evil 4, Hi-Fi Rush, Persona 4 Golden, and Metroid Prime Remastered. There is one commonality between those games, however – most of them are remakes and remasters.
Source: N4G PC Remasters And Remakes Make Up 90 Percent Of 2023's Highest-Rated Games