The 10 Worst Video Games of 2020

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 17, 2020

Above are the lowest-scoring games released for any platform between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Games are ranked by Metascore (as of December 15, 2020) 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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40 #7: Tamarin (PS4)

Hailing from Chameleon Games—home to a number of former Rare developers—this cutesy (at first glance) platform adventure failed to recapture the magic of the latter studio. Oh, and it's not as cute as it looks: The titular monkey spends the game destroying enemy bugs with heavy weaponry (among other acts of unexpectedly bloody violence)—so it's not exactly for kids.

“On some level, I guess, Tamarin is sort of amazing, in that I can’t think of when I last played a game that was this much of an outright disaster on every level. I’ve played plenty of terrible games recently, but at least in those cases you could see what they were going for, and you could imagine what good versions of those games might look like. In Tamarin, the game is an absolute fiasco at a conceptual level. That doesn’t mean you should play it, of course, but the game gets points for effort, if absolutely nothing else." —Gaming Age

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