10 Worst Video Games Of All Time (According To Metacritic)

3: Ride To Hell: Retribution - 16%

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Ride To Hell: Retribution is one of the more well known awful titles in gaming history. The 2013 action-adventure was originally announced in 2008 as an open world game before being quietly canned.

After years in development hell it eventually came out at which point everybody found out it wasn’t even almost done baking.

Among the many, many things critics hated about this one we’ve got broken mechanics, a boring repetitive gameplay loop, unresponsive controls, awful graphics, dull writing, bad performances, pretty offensive dialogue choices, really awkward sex scenes, and a whole bucket of technical issues. Basically, if you can imagine something that could be wrong with a game there’s a good chance this one has it.

It’s like the anti-perfect game, everything it sets out to do it comprehensively fails at.

The game appears to be stapled together with no design philosophy and it was called everything from “an offensive abomination of a game” in Hardcore Gamer’s review, to “explosively, apocalyptically bad” by Yahtzee from The Escapist. I know you’re curious, just don’t do it to yourself. Trust us.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.