The 10 Worst Video Games of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 13, 2022

The gallery on this page ranks the lowest-scoring games released for any platform between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. Games are ranked by Metascore (as of December 12, 2022) prior to rounding, and any titles with fewer than 7 reviews from professional critics are excluded. (In other words, these bad games are all major enough to get reviews from multiple publications.)

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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52 #9: Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief (PS4)

A third-person action/stealth game places you in the role of Ebizo, an "honorable thief" trying to survive on the streets of Mikado. The game, a remaster of a Japan-only 2006 title also released for Switch and PC, received a few positive reviews, but most critics felt that Kamiwaza didn't age well at all.

“A fascinating glimpse into the twilight era of the stealth genre but the outdated gameplay and awkward controls make it difficult to be all that nostalgic about it." —Metro GameCentral

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