And we're back with the Multiplatform 2025 OpenCritic Prediction League! This year the Prediction League will be taking place in a combined format as I had hinted at previously mainly to make my job easer not having to keep track of multiple threads and participant lists, I hope people are cool with this change which should also make it easier to keep track of things. The hope is to include the biggest/most noteworthy 1-3 games per month regardless of platform except perhaps January and December which are always a bit light on releases, but since releases are rarely evenly distributed across the year and most of the release dates we know at the moment are all in February we'll just see how that goes.

As before you don't have to predict for all games if you don't want to though of course that will reduce your chance to top the esteemed leaderboard (coming soon). The list of games is further below but first I'll throw in the rules for anybody new:

The Rules:

• When you place at least 3 predictions, I will add you to the list of participants which will be written in the same order for each game. I’ll tag all the participants if more games are added later on. You can still throw out 1-2 loose predictions without entering, but I won’t write you up in that case.
• Points are tallied at the end of each quarter using whatever scores the games from the last quarter are sitting at at that point. If a game releases right at the end of a quarter I might push it to the next quarter to give it time to settle.
• You can change or post a prediction up until the first reviews show up. Make sure to make a new post if you want to change a previous prediction.

Scoring:

The Leaderboard:

The Games:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - February 4

Score: 89

Civilization VII - February 11

Score: 79

Avowed - February 18

Score: 81

Monster Hunter Wilds - February 28

Score: 89

Assassin's Creed Shadows - March 20

Score: 81

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - April 24

Score: 92

Doom: The Dark Ages - May 15

Score: 86

Elden Ring Nightreign -  May 29

Score: 80

Mario Kart World - June 5

Score: 86

Death Stranding 2 - June 26

Score: 90

Donkey Kong Bananza - July 17

Score: 91

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - August 28

Score: 85

Hollow Knight: Silksong - September 4

Score: 91

Borderlands 4 - September 23

Score: 82

Silent Hill f - September 25

Score: 86

Ghost of Yotei - October 2

Score: 87

Pokémon Legends Z-A - October 16

Score: 80

Ninja Gaiden 4 - October 21

Score: 82

The Outer Worlds 2 - October 29

Score: 83

Metroid Prime 4 - December 4

Gonna tag the regulars here at the beginning. Welcome back guys.

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And here are my own predictions

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 84
• Civilization VII - 85
• Assassin's Creed Shadows - 79
• Avowed - 83
• Monster Hunter Wilds - 90
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 89
• Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 83
• Grand Theft Auto VI - 90
• Metroid Prime 4 - 90
• Ghost of Yotei - 87
• Fable - 80
• Layton and the World of Steam - 83
• Doom: The Dark Ages - 86
• Death Stranding 2 - 85
• Pokémon Legends Z-A - 78
• Borderlands 4 - 77
• Judas - 84
• The Outer Worlds 2 - 81

Making these predictions I'm noticing we're probably missing a few more potentially bad games to make things interesting. We'll see if something comes along later.

Also for the record I'll remove the all caps COMBINED from the title later, just wanted to make that clear at the beginning.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 86
Civilization VII - 87
Monster Hunter Wilds - 78
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 79
Grand Theft Auto VI - 96
Metroid Prime 4 - 91
Ghost of Yotei - 88
Fable - 86
Layton and the World of Steam - 78
Doom: The Dark Ages - 84
Death Stranding 2 - 86
Pokémon Legends Z-A - 78
Borderlands 4 - 76
Judas - 85
The Outer Worlds 2 - 76

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 75

Civilization VII - 84

Assassin's Creed Shadows - 81

Avowed - 86

Monster Hunter Wilds - 84

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 84

Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater - 80

Grand Theft Auto VI - 91

Metroid Prime 4 - 90

Ghost of Yotei - 89

Fable - 85

Layton and the World of Steam - 80

Doom: The Dark Ages - 83

Death Stranding 2 - 87

Pokemon Legends Z-A - 80

Borderlands 4 - 83

Judas - 82

The Outer Worlds 2 - 82

Space reserved. I'll have to really think about this.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 81
Civilization VII - 86
Assassin's Creed Shadows - 80
Avowed - 83
Monster Hunter Wilds - 90
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 89
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 86
Grand Theft Auto VI - 94
Metroid Prime 4 - 91
Ghost of Yotei - 87
Fable - 84
Layton and the World of Steam - 82
Doom: The Dark Ages - 86
Death Stranding 2 - 86
Pokémon Legends Z-A - 81
Borderlands 4 - 82
Judas - 84
The Outer Worlds 2 - 86

• *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 85
• Civilization VII - 88
• Assassin's Creed Shadows - 72
• *Avowed - 85
• Monster Hunter Wilds - 87
• *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 85
• Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 87
• Grand Theft Auto VI - 96
• Metroid Prime 4 - 90
• Ghost of Yotei - 88
• *Fable - 81
• *Layton and the World of Steam - 81
• Doom: The Dark Ages - 88
• Death Stranding 2 - 81
• Pokémon Legends Z-A - 86
• *Borderlands 4 - 81
• *Judas - 80
• *The Outer Worlds 2 - 80

*denotes a game I don't know much/anything abt, so not a very well-thought-out estimate.

Tagging so I don't forget to post mine.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 84

Civilization VII - 84

Assassin's Creed Shadows - 80

Avowed - 84

Monster Hunter Wilds - 90

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 80

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 90

Grand Theft Auto VI - 96

Metroid Prime 4 - 92

Ghost of Yotei - 88

Fable - 82

Layton and the World of Steam - 76

Doom: The Dark Ages - 88

Death Stranding 2 - 86

Pokémon Legends Z-A - 76

Borderlands 4 - 78

Judas - 90

The Outer Worlds 2 - 80

Avowed - 83

Monster Hunter Wilds - 90

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 82

Grand Theft Auto VI - 96

Metroid Prime 4 - 93

Ghost of Yotei - 87

Doom: The Dark Ages - 88

Death Stranding 2 - 85

Judas - 89

The Outer Worlds 2 - 86