Metacritic Reveals The 10 Worst-Rated Video Games Of 2025
It’s that time of year again where we not only celebrate the best games of the year, but also look at the worst games of the year — and the latter is exactly what Metacritic has been highlighting over the past couple of days.
In their list of the 10 worst games from across the industry, they’ve picked out the lowest-scoring titles on their platform that have at least four professional reviews. They all have to have released between January 1st and December 31st of 2025, and if a single game would have appeared multiple times across multiple platforms, they’ve just highlighted the lowest-scoring version.
Here are the 10 worst rated video games of 2025 according to Metacritic:
- 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 (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)
As you can see, none of the games in this list have “(Xbox)” next to them, and that’s mostly because Xbox titles aren’t reviewed as often as PS5, PC and Switch versions these days.
You also can’t filter on Metacritic for anything that has less than seven professional reviews for Xbox, and therefore we can’t make an comparative list for the Xbox platform. For what it’s worth, MindsEye has a rating of 33 for Xbox.
That would appear to make it the worst-rated game on Xbox as well, with Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles and Fast & Furious Arcade Edition being the first ones that show up in the search engine with a rating of 55 each.
