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Metacritic - The 10 Worst Video Games of 2020

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The 10 Worst Video Games of 2020

Not every videogame released in 2020 was a winner (obviously). Here are the titles receiving the lowest scores from critics this year.
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[These] are the lowest-scoring games released for any platform between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Games are ranked by Metascore (as of December 15, 2020) prior to rounding, and any titles with fewer than 7 reviews from professional critics are excluded. If a single title would have landed on the list multiple times due to low scores on more than one platform, we only included the lowest-scoring version.
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#10: The Elder Scrolls: Blades (Switch) - 42
"The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a bland and repetitive grind, a free-to-play mobile game all dressed up like a proper Elder Scrolls title but lacking in any of the adventure, exploration, wit or charm of a mainline entry in the franchise." —Nintendo Life
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#9: Gleamlight (Switch) - 42
"Hollow Knight this is not. With a flawed control system, dreadful music, and painfully unfair platforming, this is a game you will want to end as quickly as possible. Thankfully it is over in about an hour." —Switch Player
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#8: Street Power Soccer (PS4) - 41
"I went into Street Power Football hoping for an enjoyable take on the sport and was genuinely astonished by how bad the whole package is. This would be unforgivable were it a budget title, but to then have the temerity to stick a full retail price on this just takes the biscuit. I have wracked my brains but couldn't find anything positive to say about this title. Even my kids (who are not fussy when it comes to multiplayer gaming) only managed about 10 minutes before turning it off. Perhaps the best thing to come from playing this abomination of a game is that it encouraged me to dig out my GameCube and Sega Soccer Slam to try to cleanse my palette." —TheSixthAxis
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#7: Tamarin (PS4) - 40
"On some level, I guess, Tamarin is sort of amazing, in that I can't think of when I last played a game that was this much of an outright disaster on every level. I've played plenty of terrible games recently, but at least in those cases you could see what they were going for, and you could imagine what good versions of those games might look like. In Tamarin, the game is an absolute fiasco at a conceptual level. That doesn't mean you should play it, of course, but the game gets points for effort, if absolutely nothing else." —Gaming Age
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#6: Remothered: Broken Porcelain (PC) - 39
"Broken and buggy. Remothered: Broken Porcelain is marred with poor design decisions, a nigh-incomprehensible plot, and a lot of poor taste. In its current state it's barely playable, and it's really not worth the effort." —PC Invasion
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#5: Arc of Alchemist (Switch) - 36
"Thanks to the choppy framerate, horrible combat, and forgettable characters and story, Arc of Alchemist fails to elicit anything more than a shrug and a sigh. Unless you're a hardcore Idea Factory and Compile Heart fan, stay far, far away from this one." —We Got This Covered
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#4: Fast & Furious Crossroads (PC) - 34
"I can't believe the studio behind Project CARS and Need for Speed: Shift developed such an atrocity. I guess this is what happens when you're assigned a laughably tight budget, have to spend half of it on voice acting by movie stars, and the publisher wants the game to imitate a triple AAA title." —CD-Action
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#3: Dawn of Fear (PS4) - 33
"Dawn of Fear tries to bring back the nostalgia of classic survival horror but fails in almost every way. The poor controls lead to most of its problems and a lack of necessary mechanics creates problems that shouldn't exist in this day and age from the simplest of games." —PlayStation Universe
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#2: XIII Remake (Xbox One) - 32
"At first glance, XIII looks like a video game. It has graphics, sounds come out of the speakers, and a character moves when you touch the pad. But sit down to play it, and you'll realise that it's held together with sticky tape and paper clips, collapsing into scraps when you play for more than five minutes." —TheXboxHub
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#1: Tiny Racer (Switch) - 29
"Tiny Racer offers nothing that you haven't seen before or does anything special that requires you to play it. It feels like a game that was created in about a week without any attention to details or a specific goal in mind aside from 'let's make the cars tiny'. Honestly, it even failed in that regard. It's been said that Nintendo allows practically anything on the Switch eShop nowadays and Tiny Racer has strengthened that belief for me." —NintendoWorldReport
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EggmaniMN

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I actually don't agree with Fast and the Furious being that low. The game is super buggy and really lowbrow but it controls mostly fine and I generally had a good time for the $1 I spent renting it. Unless the PC version just runs super poorly specifically. I'd give it like a 5 or 6?
 
Booya_base

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Booooo at the XIII remake, booooooo! So sad that they ruined a classic. I am legit going to go and play original XIII tonight.
 
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Booya_base said:
Booooo at the XIII remake, booooooo! So sad that they ruined a classic. I am legit going to go and play original XIII tonight.
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It's buggy for sure but I think it can be a better game if they just continue to fix the bugs. Sure, the graphics are kinda unfixable but having played the remake and original back-to-back with huge nostalgia for the original one, I'd prefer playing the remake. The original's cell-shading looks really bad on higher resolutions and the QOL stuff in the remake is great. And it's not like the graphics are bad in the remake (not 2020 AAA standards), they should've just tried to mimic the artstyle better.
 
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Ganado said:
It's buggy for sure but I think it can be a better game if they just continue to fix the bugs. Sure, the graphics are kinda unfixable but having played the remake and original back-to-back with huge nostalgia for the original one, I'd prefer playing the remake. The original's cell-shading looks really bad on higher resolutions and the QOL stuff in the remake is great. And it's not like the graphics are bad in the remake (not 2020 AAA standards), they should've just tried to mimic the artstyle better.
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Oh wow, thanks for the response, I was not expecting that. I guess we'll see how I get on with a replay then.
 
CurseVox

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you bought it? isn't it f2p?
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yes, this is true, but the crafty bastards made it damn near impossible to advance once you hit a certain level. I thought I was doing something wrong, and eventually got frustrated, so I spent $20 on some gems and gear or whatever so I could keep playing. I realized afterward that I wasn't doing anything wrong. The developers intentionally built this road block into the game to get people to buy these packs. I hate myself for falling for this. I usually don't, but it was the middle of a pandemic and I was feeling bummed out, so I bit. Never again.
 
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Thankfully, I only had to review one game on the list this year (Remothered, which fully deserves its spot). Last year it was 3.
 
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CurseVox said:
yes, this is true, but the crafty bastards made it damn near impossible to advance once you hit a certain level. I thought I was doing something wrong, and eventually got frustrated, so I spent $20 on some gems and gear or whatever so I could keep playing. I realized afterward that I wasn't doing anything wrong. The developers intentionally built this road block into the game to get people to buy these packs. I hate myself for falling for this. I usually don't, but it was the middle of a pandemic and I was feeling bummed out, so I bit. Never again.
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sorry you went thru that. yeah, that's basic f2p monetization. they let you play for a while for free, but then make it so frustrating to progress that some people would choose to pay to make things easier. then do it again, and again, and again.
 
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mazi said:
sorry you went thru that. yeah, that's basic f2p monetization. they let you play for a while for free, but then make it so frustrating to progress that some people would choose to pay to make things easier. then do it again, and again, and again.
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Yeah, I'm usually a lot better about these things but I had a weak moment I guess, with near instant regret afterward. Live and learn. heh
 
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Is Tamarin really that bad? It looks cute and I love 3D platformers. I was waiting for <$10 obviously on Steam, some games release at absurd prices.
 
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