https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games

Distribution of Metacritic scores for console games.
https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games

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Distribution of Metacritic scores for console games.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games
• Owner: williamd1k0
• License: other
• Created: 2025-06-14T04:15:10.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-14T04:45:42.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-14T05:30:36.445Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: data-scraping, data-visualization, metacritic, web-scraping
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.04 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Distribution of Metacritic scores for console games

>I have no affiliation with or relation to the Metacritic website. The information presented here is for informational purposes only and is not endorsed by or associated with Metacritic.

This repository contains a dataset of Metacritic scores for console games, along with a script to fetch the data from the Metacritic website and a script to visualize the data distribution.

## Required tools

- Make

- Fetch script:

  - [fish shell](https://fishshell.com/)

  - [curl](https://curl.se/)

  - [htmlq](https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq)

  - [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

- Visualization script:

  - Python 3

  - [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (python project manager)

## Charts

### Xbox

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/xbox_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/xbox-360_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/xbox-one_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/xbox-series-x_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

### PlayStation

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps1_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps2_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps3_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps4_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps5_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

#### Handheld

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/psp_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/ps-vita_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

### Nintendo

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/nintendo-64_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/gamecube_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/wii_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/wii-u_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

#### Handheld

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/game-boy-advance_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/nintendo-ds_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/3ds_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

#### Hybrid

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/nintendo-switch_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/nintendo-switch-2_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)

### Other Consoles

![](https://github.com/williamd1k0/metacritic-games/blob/main/charts/dreamcast_scores_distribution.png?raw=true)