MindsEye and Fire Emblem Mobile Make Metacritics Worst Games of 2025 List

December is the perfect month to reflect on the past year, taking stock of both the joyous highlights and the unfortunate low points. The team at Metacritic has delved deep to compile a list of the ten worst-rated games of 2025.

While creating this list, Metacritic’s editorial team adhered to specific criteria. To qualify for this dismal ranking, a game must:

If a title has multiple versions for different platforms, only the version with the lowest rating is counted. For the 2025 list, downloadable content (DLC), VR titles, and mobile games were also taken into account.

Which games ended up in the top three of the year’s worst offerings?

**Blood of Mehran** is an indie action game inspired by tales from the «One Thousand and One Nights.» It received strong criticism for its outdated graphics, poor performance, repetitive combat, and weak narrative.

**Fire Emblem Shadows**, the second mobile spin-off of the long-standing tactical RPG series **Fire Emblem**, faced backlash for straying from the franchise’s established gameplay, opting instead for a social deduction approach reminiscent of games like «Mafia» and **Among Us**. As you might guess, this departure from tradition proved disastrous for the project, further aggravated by complaints regarding «pay-to-win» mechanics.

The biggest failure of 2025 was undoubtedly the release of **MindsEye** from ex-Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies. Frankly, it would have been shocking if any other game topped this list. Boring and riddled with bugs, **MindsEye** was expected to give a boost to the fledgling studio **Build a Rocket Boy** and its gaming platform **Everywhere**, but now, the future looks bleak for both.

The final list of digital entertainment in 2025 that you should definitely avoid wasting your time and money on is as follows: