The market encourages safe games to be made with big budgets. Metacritic is a part of it but its really mostly sales and previous successes and failures. Concord, Suicide Squad, Forspoken, etc will always be cudgels wielded as "don't be like them" while Hogwarts Legacy, Fortnite, Vampire Survivors, Balatro, etc will be goals to be chased. More @Wikipedia
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