The worst games of the year for Metacritic: It won’t rain to everyone’s taste

Metacritic makes it clear that 2025 has also had big disappointments.

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The final stretch of the year is not only a time to review the best that the industry has to offer, but also to focus on those releases that haven’t quite lived up to expectations. Metacritic, as it does every year, already reflects which games have been the worst rated by specialized critics.

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This isn’t a definitive sentence (not everyone will agree), but it’s a good thermometer to measure which proposals have generated more frustration than enthusiasm among media and players.

The worst-rated games of the year on Metacritic

This is the list of titles with the lowest average score recorded on Metacritic throughout the year, along with their primary platform, where they were analyzed:

• MindsEye — 28 (PS5)

• Fire Emblem Shadows — 37 (iOS)

• Blood of Mehran — 38 (PS5)

• Spy Drops — 39 (PC)

• Gore Doctor — 40 (PS5)

• Tamagotchi Plaza: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition — 43 (Nintendo Switch 2)

• Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator — 44 (PS5)

• QUByte Classics: Glover — 44 (PS5)

• Scar-Lead Salvation — 44 (PS5)

• Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition — 45 (PS5)

Among the most repeated reasons in the analyses are technical issues, uninspired proposals, lack of polish, and questionable design decisions, even in franchises with recognized names.

This list serves as a reminder that, no matter how powerful a license or attractive an idea may be on paper, execution is still the most important thing to convince both critics and players.