The 10 Worst Video Games of 2019

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 16, 2019

Above are the lowest-scoring games released for any platform between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Games are ranked by Metascore 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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37 #2: Left Alive (PS4)

The worst 2019 game released by a major publisher (in this case, Square Enix), Left Alive is the first game in nearly a decade in the Front Mission sci-fi mech war series. It's a spinoff based on stealth mechanics, and critics find it a clumsy and annoying simulation of a Metal Gear Solid game, even though it borrows that franchise's artist, Yoji Shinkawa. His work isn't the problem, but the terrible AI is.

“Left Alive falls flat on its face at nearly everything it attempts to do. The story and characters aren't that compelling, the piss-poor stealth is thrown out the window thanks to the forced combat, and the combat at its best made me burst out laughing in pure disbelief at how terrible it was. So, at least it has that going for it.” —Destructoid

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