Metacritic Reveals "The Worst Video Games Of 2024"

It's a shame that Cursed Clash is down there because an IP like Jujutsu Kaisen is begging for a competent game.

I don't think TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials is that bad.

I said this in my defence for the games by Outright Games.

hehe, only because dustborn was saved by shill media. lmfao

It doesn't look like Happyfunland lived up to it's name!

Wacky World of Sports actually seemed potential fun, a shame it turned out the way it.

I smelled the stench on the Looney Tunes game from a mile away. It's GAME MILL for goodness sake. They are the modern day LJN.

It's obvious with their resume: Rise of Kong, Walking Dead Destinies, and everyone's beloved Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing!

There is something wrong with that list, where is Suicide Squad KtJL, Skull and Bones or Concord?
Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat and Metal Slug Attack Reloaded are good.

@Arcane-Fer All 3 sitting at around 60 on Metacritic

PO'ed? Why's it so low?

@Solomon_Rambling No one's gonna want to review games that aren't worth playing, and with 50+ games coming out every day on Steam alone, the vast majority of games will never be reviewed.

@Arcane-Fer Review sites tend to treat AAA games more favorably even if they suck.

@Arcane-Fer I think that these types of bad games don’t often get low meta critic scores because they are competent. Not good. But they do technically run, despite being derivative, uninspiring and boring. So we as a community think about them as failures because they are relative to the resources put into them.

As opposed to That Looney Tunes sports game, that was just busted and ugly.

its ridiculous the Po'ed remaster is in there. PO'ed is an important piece of gaming/FPS history because it was made when the concept of what a FPS game should be hadnt settled, and it is very weird and experimental but in a good way that is literally totally unique.

@John_Deacon implying it ever had any.

@Olliemar28 Thats a fine and justified sentiment but still kinda defeats the purpose of finding the actual WORST games of 2024 (as the title suggest). Maybe a separate article with the ones who had the lowest score would be fun to look at. Don't underestimate the morbid curiosity of seeing garbage.

@ScalenePowers - Uhhh, KtJL was pretty busted. Actually most of Ubisoft's recent releases have absolute garbage AI and hit-detection problems.

@Arcane-Fer I am enjoying Suicide Squad. It's above average in my book. If the list was biggest commercial failures then I think Concord would top that list.

there are many shovelware games on the eshop released every month far worse than these.

@Olliemar28

good stuff 👍 imo, the only "good" negative reviews have these things in common:

1) the game is widely anticipated, or at least somewhat intensely by the given readership.

2) the reviewer actually likes the genre or the series to which the game belongs, preferably both if applicable. (Respectfully, Nlife often fails, here. I'm sure you have your reasons.✌️)

3) the concrete reasons for disliking the game are clearly explained within the review.

thanks for commenting! 👍 love your work.

@John_Deacon

has none, and them calling these games the WORST (as opposed to "worst reviewed, according to our system of aggregation") is pretty audacious.

the only value in this is entertainment, if you can find any. personally I think lists like this are a bit mean natured and I much prefer positive game coverage in general unless we are diving really deeply into historically abysmal games, directly.

✌️

@smithyo

its completely ridiculous to just assign an "aggregate" score out of 100 to each game, and then line them up in a row as though those numbers mean a damn thing, relative to each other.

for an easy example, one website might consider 50% "average," while another might consider that score an F, or "bad game." on one website, an 80% would be considered just good but not great, whereas on another, 4/5 stars ("80%" on metacritic) might be a GOTY contender.

not to mention, a game with 2 perfect scores and 2 zeroes is probably more interesting and likely more worth your time than a game that got 4 straight 50%s, but on meta, they are "the same." ridiculous.

they took something as subjective as game reviews (and especially the score systems used) and tried to make a science out of it, and theyve been cashing in on their failure ever since. must be nice! 😅

Wow now that's shovelware on every platform, Steam, PSN, Sega Genesis, Xbox, and Switch had these every week.

I'm still interested in PO'ed. DOOM clones were a dime a dozen, but they went away for a while so it's always fun to see that meta-genre making a resurgence

If this is considered the worst of 2024, review websites have clearly not spent enough time in the trenches of the Switch eShop or Steam because wow, PO'ed is DOOM Eternal compared to the horrors that lurk in those store fronts.

There are far worse 2024 shovelware games out there then these.

The score doesn't include user's review scores, which are usually extremely biased and emotional (full of 10s and mostly 0, with users that didn't even play the game, only hoping onto the hate train).

@John_Deacon Metacritic does what it says on the tin, people just get so unreasonably butthurt by an aggregate score site. It's overall a pretty useful site to use from time to time.

See I'm certain none of these games are actually the worst. The actual worst would be found amongst the weekly eshop shovelware

See, Concord wasn't all that bad......

"Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat"

It looks like that title didn't age well XD

Shovelware usually doesn't get reviewed by anyone, so they don't make it on lists like this.

Glad I don’t have any of those, although I was intrigued by Metal Slug

@John_Deacon

Well, you can still read the sentences and look if there is actual Information included, that helps you make a Decision about a Game.

Often enough the Score is far away from what is written or the "Problems" aren't any for you personally (7/10, too much Water).

If the Reviews sound all very much the same, they are probably "bought" and you rather wait with buying a hyped Game ("Bioware returning to its Form").

It is the same with Reviews on Amazon and else, there many Bots and insanely dumb Reviews, but looking through them on all Ends of the Rating often reveals useful Information.

@Solomon_Rambling

You are right. If they reviewed all of the worst games, none of these games would even be on bottom 1000 list as there were around 24000 new games released in 2023 for example.

Metacritic is irrelevant as usual.