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Catherine Lewis

Pokemon Pokopia once again overtakes Resident Evil Requiem on Metacritic as the best game of 2026, with a score of 90 that's going to be hard to beat

A screenshot of Ditto transformed into Dragonite - flying next to the real Dragonite - in Pokemon Pokopia.

Pokemon Pokopia is back on top of Metacritic's ranking of the best games of the year, once again overtaking Resident Evil Requiem as clearly not even hot unc Leon Kennedy is able to keep the cozy life sim down.

With 101 critic reviews logged at the time of writing, as highlighted on ResetEra, Pokopia has regained the average critic score of 90, which it previously briefly saw when the first few reviews started dropping. As is to be expected, this fluctuated somewhat as more scores started coming in, but it remained the highest-rated Pokemon game of all time, and now, almost three weeks on from the game's launch, it seems quite unlikely to shift any more than it has.

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