Everywhere you look right now, there’s a gaggle of nerds foaming at the mouth to share their list of the very best video games of 2025. (And we’re no exception!) But what about the stinkers, the flops, the dead-on-arrival turds? We want to take a few moments to honor the low achievers of 2025, the absolute worst games of the year according to review aggregator Metacritic. Are all of these games truly as terrible as the reviews say? Is there a hidden gem or two hidden among the bunch? Let’s find out.
- MindsEye
- Tamagotchi Plaza
- Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
- Scar-Lead Salvation
- Captain Blood
- Neptunia Riders Vs Dogoos
- Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact
- Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection
- Rennsport
- Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact
Just a suggestion, both are technically correct.
Mindseye was hilarious to watch Sodapoppin play considering he was sponsored. Bro tried his best to hide his emotions but we saw the cracks XD
Is he the guy who was getting paid to play it and it literally crashed to desktop over and over before his whole stream audience?
Where the heck is black ops 7 on this. Like yea it sold but holy cow the amount of complaints on it.
Damn, those Steam reviews are awful
I’m so glad to see Welcome Tour on this list. Definitely one of the dumbest things of 2025, charging for that.
I was already leaning against getting a Switch 2 when they first announced it, but advertising a tech demo as a paid product sealed it for me.
Nintendo sees rock bottom as a challenge.
The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.
As you can tell, I’m waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.
The issue with a “The worst of …” list is that you need to find examples that are both really bad and also notorious/high-profile enough to be interesting. “random game I’ve never heard about is really bad” has very little value as a news/“news” item. It’s like buying a bottom-shelf liquor and complaining that it sucks ass.
It’s a quandary that blasts the very question.
There is no good reason for us to define, or seek out, the “worst games of the year”. Only outrage culture wants us to direct hate towards known bad games like Black Ops 7, even though by any practical analysis it’s a better game than hundreds of ignored, pretty bad asset flips, and even some high-effort low-thought indie games that have come out.
It’s just a fun article to break up the usual doom and gloom.
