Imagine reducing the quality of a game to a single metric.
Top of the Global Charts on Steam for almost two weeks.
97 Metascore on Metacritic with 35 reviews.
9.1 Userscore based on 6,741 ratings.
97 on Opencritic with 46 reviews, 100% recommended.
Overwhelmingly Positive (96%) reviews since release on Steam, based on 106,318 reviews.
Very Positive (94%) reviews overall, based on 164,626.
2.5M units in sales during Early Access.
5-10M+ units sold at least.
875,343 Concurrent Players on Steam, 9th of all time, 4th among singleplayer games.
We're reaching levels of circlejerk previously thought impossible.
The only RPG in recent memory to receive this kind of financial and critical feedback by an independent studio (not owned by a publisher) would be Witcher 3's initial reception.
I don't think you understand what circle jerking actual means.
Yeah, the last RPG to receive this kind of attention and acclaim was Witcher 3 -
because BG3 and Witcher 3 are both exceptionally well-made RPGs. Cyberpunk 2077 was also exceptional as far as I'm concerned.