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.

6 of 11 photo by Bandai Namco

46 #5: LEGO Brawls (PS5)

It's the first team action brawler set in the LEGO universe ... and quite possibly the last, judging from the reactions from critics and gamers. The problem: It's a port of a mobile game (first released in 2019) that boasts few upgrades—and shockingly little depth—in its console form to justify a $40 pricetag.

“I really wanted to like Lego Brawls, it is such a cool idea. Sadly the fact is, it is just a bad game. Not bad in an overly broken or offensive way. Bad because it seems to delight in mediocrity. Everything feels half-baked and half-realised, kind of like my 16-year-old’s homework, and it means it quickly squandered any potential in the idea of a Lego Smash Bros." —Player 2

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