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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42 #9: Gleamlight (Switch)

This Switch sidescroller may look decent on the surface. But it only really gets the "hollow" part of the Hollow Knight formula down: There's very little content, and what's there isn't exactly fun or coherent.

“Hollow Knight this is not. With a flawed control system, dreadful music, and painfully unfair platforming, this is a game you will want to end as quickly as possible. Thankfully it is over in about an hour." —Switch Player

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