Metacritic aggregate scores reveal this year’s most criticised releases…
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According to its rankings (minus any titles with fewer than 7 reviews), the worst scored game of the year was
Konami’s free-to-play football reboot
eFootball 2022, which has been
widely panned since its launched in September for buggy performance and missing features.
Other notable releases on the list include
Square Enix’s
Balan Wonderworld. The
Yuji Naka platformer released in March to overwhelmingly negative reviews, with the game’s
Metacritic score currently ranging from 36 to 51. Commercially, the title
appears to have been just as disappointing.
Another game to suffer a rocky launch,
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition also makes the list.
The highly anticipated remaster collection released in November with
a significant number of technical issues, as well as “unintended” documents within its game files such as
unlicensed music and developer notes.
Rockstar subsequently apologised to fans for the state of the game and promised a series of updates to improve the title.
For the purposes of this list, we’ve averaged the difference between the metascores of multiplatform games.
THE WORST REVIEWED GAMES OF 2021
- 1. EFootball 2022 (Multi) – 25
- 2. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood (PS4) – 42
- 3. Balan Wonderworld (Multi) – 44*
- 3. Of Bird and Cage (PC) – 44
- 4. Demon Skin (PC) – 48
- 5. PixelJunk Raiders (Stadia) – 49
- 5. The Unexpected Quest (Multi) – 49
- 6. Taxi Chaos (Multi) – 51*
- 7. Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed (Multi) – 52
- 8. Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace (Multi) – 53*
- 8. GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition (Multi) – 53*
- 9. Necromunda: Hired Gun (Multi) – 55*
*Multiplatform scores averaged