Most critically acclaimed videogame ever
- Who
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- What
- 99 percentage
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 28 May 2025
Released for the Nintendo 64 on 23 November 1998, the action-adventure The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo) is the only videogame to achieve a Metascore of 99 as of 28 March 2025, as verified by review aggregate website Metacritic.com. The game sits ahead of two other titles on 98, SoulCalibur (Namco, 1999), Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar, 2008), and Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo, 2007) on 97.
The second highest-rated Zelda game is the 2017 open-world sort-of reboot The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of The Wild with a Metascore of 97.