Tiny Racer On Switch Is Officially The Worst Game Of 2020, According To Metacritic

I expected to see Blades on there and was not disappointed. What a trash fire.

I tried to play "Blades" but there was this one point where the game simply kept crashing and I figured it wasn't worth trying to navigate such a problem.

I'm glad that XIII Remake is #2, that game is tart on basically anything. Makes Cyberpunk 2077 (at launch) look like Mozart.

Expect Cyberpunk 2077 to make waves on that list by the 31st of December.

I contemplated buying the PC day one physical edition (which comes with a DRM-free GOG code), but I'm glad I resisted.

Imagine spending eight years on a game for it to wind up like that. All of those previous delays had been in vain. Why even announce a release date when the game simply isn't ready?!

Elder Scrolls Blades is not hot garbage, but it isn't a good game by any means. I've always said it's a poor man's Skyrim, and it shows.

The fact that you have to level up your character in order to progress through the quests easier makes it a chore, whereas in Skyrim, enemies were comparable to your level.

While you can explore the "dungeons," exploration is incredibly limited compared to other Elder Scrolls games. And the combat is counterintuitive.

It's playable, for certain, so I don't consider it hot garbage. But because it's not as fun to play as Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, or even Online, it's not good. Mediocre, at best.

And you didn't review it? It's been a while since we had a good one-star review lol, I want to see you destroy it.

@Grot But we actually do have Skyrim in our pockets with the Switch version of Skyrim. Blades is nothing but a really sorry excuse for a mobile game with exceptionally little depth, variation or even redeeming values.

@AstroTheGamosian Funny thing is, "Poor Man's Skyrim," spoken literally, is just older Skyrim. At this point if you want skyrim on a budget there are plenty of options.

You're absolutely right, you'd be robbing yourself of your valuable time playing Blades.

@Silly_G My friend and I were discussing that the other day. I love CDPR, Witcher 3 was amazing, and I’m sure CP2077 on Next Gen/Mega PC is great. But the vast majority of gamers/those that purchased are gonna be on PS4/XB1, and sadly the game is hot garbage on those systems. They should have just shown the game on those systems and said “we need until next spring to figure this out.... “

Unfortunately they couldn’t make it next gen only for 2 reasons, firstly it’s modeled and built on previous gen, and secondly Next Gen doesn’t currently have the install base to recoup dev costs. Not to mention if they ditched previous gen they would have utterly po’d the largest install base.

CDPR was caught between a rock and a he’d place with another delay or release the game, and sadly neither was gonna have a good outcome. I do hope CDPR can recover and rectify the situation. I have faith they’ll make things right. Witcher 3, the support they gave it, and listening to the community proved they were a great dev company.

How was arc even bad lol

Warcraft 3 Reforged should be there normally, at least by User Score.
What a Violation of a Art.

@Dm9982 : I understand that and I wish them the best (I love GOG as a digital storefront, which is owned by CDRP), but they have thrown God only knows how many millions down the toilet in marketing because all it amounted to are mediocre reviews that sound more generous than they would have been had the project not showed such promise.

Dropping last gen would have been foolish, but failing to optimise the game was even more so.

If they rebrand the game a little for its eventual new gen release, then perhaps they can undo some of the damage, but I can't help but suspect that they have just destroyed what seemed like such an ambitious project in order to meet a deadline.

This had the potential to become an evergreen title like GTA V (which has consistently been a top 10 darling for seven years running, and not without good reason!) but this will likely become bargain bin fodder within months like some throwaway Ubisoft title.

Surely there’s more than a few worse games released this year than Tiny Racer...

@Dm9982 Maybe neither choice would have resulted in a good outcome, but that doesn't mean that both outcomes would have been equally bad. BotW showed that people can forgive repeated delays if the result is worthwhile. And intentionally misleading customers about an unfinished product is easily the worst choice a publisher can possibly make.

Besides, there would have been compromises between those two choices (publish PC version now and delay the consoles versions for example - that might have enraged some console fans but nowhere near as much as they are now).

Fancy giving a hoot about Metacritic, but seeing as they "featured our review"... mutual back scratching is a valid custom, I guess. 😄

I've yet to play most of the mentioned stuff past Blades (whose only real "sin" is a much more basic adventure package on a platform that has Skyrim, originally envisioned and designed for the platforms that don't), but I'm not unlikely to pull the trigger on Arc of Alchemist this month. And no telling when I ever get my hands on Gleamlight, but I sure will have a special announcement when I give a damn about all the "Hollow Knight clone" barks in its regard.

@Wesbert That, is actually the perfect solution and what they should have done. I mean from what I see on social, the game runs mostly fine on pc - with the standard open world glitches we’ve come to expect from such titles. It’s consoles where it just got wrecked, and basically only runs on next gen systems via backwards compatibility. Which tells me it’s basically horribly optimized code being brute forced through faster processors to make the game playable.

Witcher 3 wasn’t nearly as bad, but basically had similar issues at launch, was better coded for PC than Console. Same happens with Bethesda games too. So you’d think both studios would enlarge their console port teams as that’s their glaring weakness, and console players have to exceed or at least rival the market size of PC players, right?

Edit - eh maybe not, 1.3B reportedly game on pc, whereas total console market on XB1/PS4 is probably 1/3 of that.

Edit 2 - nope, I stand corrected again, PS4 and XB1 have roughly 10% the amount of players to PC. About 150m

I downloaded Blades but haven't played it yet. Might delete it now.

Ouch I was hoping remothered would have done better. Blades is a mobile game through and through and so long as you don’t expect more than that it is perfectly serviceable.

I never played the original XIII but those terrible remakes make me reconsider wanting some of my favorite or badly running games to be remade. Maybe it’s better if they don’t remake Dawn of War or Beyond Good and Evil.

Seems Xbox has the best game quality control as only one xbox game makes the list...

@Silly_G I've been really enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 on my Xbox 1X.

@Dm9982 If Xbox acquisition of Zenimax/Bethesda completes next year I expect new Bethesda games from that point on will be increasingly good on consoles.

@Silly_G At this point I think the only way for CDPR investors to regain what they lost is to push for CDPR to be acquired. CDPR badly needs much better mangement. If that happens I guess Microsoft is the most likely company to acquire them and sort them out?

@TechaNinja it's an ok game on the switch just low frame rate drops but still playable. It wasn't optimized well for the switch like all the other idea factory games are on the switch. I wish they would send a patch out to all their switch games and help them play a sturdy 30fps their games are not over the type graphics so it can be done.

@Silly_G The PC version is incredible - looks great and plays great, I've not had a single crash or noticeable bug across several hours.

As for the console versions though - totally agree!

@Dm9982 The console-to-PC-owner numbers aren't relevant. Many console owners have PCs as well. And not every PC is capable of running games like Cyberpunk 2077. More relevant is what I heard in one report (provided it's true), namely that 41% of Cyberpunk preorders were for consoles.

Blades is the only one I have played on Switch and I also agree with most of the comments. The game is poorly designed and lacks any real depth.

@Chlocean I mean, it's okay to play in short bursts, but don't expect to sink hours of your day into it. That's mainly due to the quest difficulty. Too often, you can be given jobs and quests that are too difficult for you, even if you are at a low level.

I bought Arc of Alchemist the other day because it was on sale and I liked to idea of grinding RPG to build some city stuff.
But I gave up just after a few minutes. I am no fps snob, but this felt like under 20fps and was just exhausting because of it.

I've only tried Blades out of these.
It's such an offensive product that I'm sure the others on this list wouldn't be able to cause me as much dismay, even if they might technically be worse games. ^^

The worst games on the Switch are definately anything released by Sabec.

Sabec's Basketball is an insult. Sabec's Hidden is abysmal. Sabec's Air Hockey is a travesty, Sabec's Spot the Difference - Ultimate Edition couldn't be more basic and buggy, Sabec's Pool had no one playtesting it. Each and every one of Sabec's 35 Switch games is absolute garbage from gaming hell, to put it lightly. Anything the Angry Video Game Nerd ever covered is pure gold when compared to Sabec's output.

If you really want to know how bad a Switch game can be just waste your money on anything released by Sabec. And if you think you can just try them for a buck or so, no, the price isn't reflected in their extremely poor quality.

Sabec released plenty of trash on Switch and other consoles in 2020 (and the years before). Tiny Racer isn't great but it manages to be decent. Sabec on the other hand has thirtyfive 1/10 games in their catalog.
Metacritic is wrong!

CD Projekt Red will be fine; the game is flawless on a good PC so it's nowhere near a write off. And let's face it, the world has generally accepted the "release now, patch later" model. People aren't happy right now, but they want to play this game. And CDPR have a big enough war chest to hunker down and deliver a fix and in a few months' time this will all be history.
I remember when GTA4 came out on PC, I couldn't even start it for a month due to all the DRM thinking I was pirating it for some reason. Waiting for patches, then new patches which broke old patches... I was a furious man. Seems like a comedy now though.

Anyone else now want to get Tiny Racer to see why it’s so bad? No, just me then?

Does anyone even take seriously that cr*pshow of a site, that takes reviews from all over the internet? One of the problems with taking an aggregator seriously is that companies suffer with it, and many times is not even representative of the quality of the games.

@Lionyone or has the fewest game releases

XIII remake deserve top1 of worst. Blades was not a bad choice because that terrible mechanics. Tiny racer is not good but better than all the other 9 games of the list, that have really bad games.

Wow, what makes Tiny Racer so bad? Based on the screenshots, I was really looking forward to it.