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Metacritic Names 2025’s Worst-Reviewed Games, With MindsEye at No. 1

The annual roundup applies fixed review thresholds to list each game’s lowest-scoring platform version.

Overview

  • MindsEye topped the list with a 28 Metascore on PS5, and Pure Xbox reports the Xbox version sits at 33.
  • Fire Emblem Shadows ranked second with a 37 on iOS, with Nintendo Life noting similarly poor user sentiment.
  • Rounding out the top ten were Blood of Mehran (PS5, 38), Spy Drops (PC, 39), Gore Doctor (PS5, 40), Tamagotchi Plaza: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2, 43), Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator (PS5, 44), QUByte Classics: Glover (PS5, 44), Scar-Lead Salvation (PS5, 44), and Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition (PS5, 45).
  • No entries appear as Xbox versions, which Pure Xbox attributes to fewer professional Xbox reviews and Metacritic’s seven-review minimum for Xbox filtering.
  • Coverage notes some titles, notably MindsEye, have received post-launch fixes that improve playability without changing the aggregated critic scores.