10 Worst Games Of 2020

2020 may now be behind us but its terrible games live on. Being purveyors of a fortnightly Worst Games Ever show, we felt compelled to continue the work we started last year and take a morbid look at the worst of them. The Metacritic scores tell you everything you need to know. From the dreadful Fast & Furious game to an unforgivable XIII remake, here are the ten worst reviewed games of 2020.
VO: Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Sharna Penny (@StrangePenny12)
Video Editor: Alex Winters (@MrSteakFace)
#WorstGames2020 #WorstVideoGames #VideoGameReviews
--------------------------
Subscribe for more wonderful video game content from Ben Potter and Peter Austin!
TripleJump provides video coverage of video games - including top ten lists featuring current gen platforms (PS4 & PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and PC), retro consoles (PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox and Sega), as well as Worst Games Ever, video game challenges, weekly news updates, first impressions, podcasts, livestreams and much, much more.
Merch, careers, and more information can be found on our website: tripleju.mp
⇨ Patreon: / teamtriplejump
⇨ Twitch: / teamtriplejump
⇨ Livestream VODs: tripleju.mp/vods
⇨ Podcast: play.acast.com/s/triplejump
⇨ Twitter: / teamtriplejump
⇨ Facebook: / teamtriplejump
⇨ Discord: Bit.ly/TeamTripleJump
Follow the boys on social media:
Ben: / confused_dude & Confused_Dude on PSN
Peter: / thatpeteraustin & / thatpeteraustin
The TripleJump Podcast is hosted by Acast, but available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and more!
Acast: play.acast.com/s/triplejump

[@nicholasrashell4783]

Fast and Furious: Crosswords sounds like it could be fun. It would be a drag racing game where it auto drives as you solve a crossword. Every word you get right gives you a nitrous boost while entering wrong words decreases speed. Other modes included would be word search, and the word scramble game where you make as many words as possible by connecting letters, the longer the word the bigger the speed boost. Or a mode where you have to select answers to A B C questions, each letter sending you down a different path in the track, selecting all correct answers would send you down the shortest possible path, while wrong answers will cause your car to go down longer winding paths. Racing against other players online in modes like scramble would be really fun I think with the constant boosts to speed. Winning would give you cash to upgrade cars and tracks.

[@iwatatiff]

LMFAO

[@RipRLeeErmey]

I think you're looking for Nitro Type bruh 💀

[@joshhale9355]

The original XIII is one of my favorite games, so the remake made me very sad.

[@nathanmead140]

I was at a gamestore earlier to get some more gamecube games and I found that on one of the shelves for GC games I didn't buy it but I might buy it next month if they still have it, the games I bought are Tom clancy's splinter cell and medal of honor rising sun for gamecube and hitman absolution for xbox 360, all three games together with tax was only 24 US dollars

[@ilive4retro]

We use to play that to death on my GameCube. Great times! I didn’t even check out the remake since I still have the original lol

[@jacksonteller3973]

I thought the remake was OK

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

@@jacksonteller3973 are you that boring you find shit games good?

[@bingoblackdynomite]

I can't lie: I think you guys just sold me on Tamarin

[@DexterManning]

hahaha I was thinking the same

[@thomasdascombe4939]

Same

[@thewholecircus]

People actually like this game, considering it's a spiritual sequel to jet force gemini on the N64, if you know what that is

[@alexhobbs1208]

@@thewholecircus that's a name I haven't heard in some time.

[@t45tt4tr]

Is it me or do those ants look like the ants from JeT force gemini?

[@niyyyck]

“The original XIII wasn’t even that good to start with.” Thems fighting words friend.

[@CPUjunkie]

I played Xiii mostly on gamecube. It has pc style pause the game and quick save, no checkpoints and it took forever to load. I could start a level walk through a door, get killed and it would have to load the whole thing over again to start the level. If the loading wasn't so horrendous then I would of had more fun with it

[@alexpratt99]

I loved that game so much as a kid

[@Ragnarok26]

Tamarin seems like a re-imagining of Jet Force Gemini (N64) where the protagonists are the Tribals.

[@NintendoW11]

THIS. I couldn't for the life of me think of that name. I kept thinking "conkers bad fur day with bugs" Absolutely spot on comment!

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

The ants with guns look VERY similar just without the blue skin, or, exoskeleton XP

[@_BatCountry]

"Bold move, making a game's USP the removal of the series' USP" is top shelf writing.

[@RhysCake]

Seeing XIII on this list still hurts. I was so excited for that remake.

[@nymphocat254]

Every time I hear Ben introduce a video I can't help but hear the "I'm Ben from Wh*tculture".

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Oh yeah, here we go, Whatculture time!

[@aintbeenhome2105]

holy shit I thought I recognised his voice

[@reillymcwriting]

Whatculture suuuucks now. Simon is the only one I can tolerate and he used to be the worst one.

[@Sevenigma777]

Ben and Peter are the most professional sounding unprofessionals on all of KZbin. So glad finally got a channel with some success was worried was gonna lose then for the third time lol. Lets get these sub numbers up and make it a great year for these guys!

[@12thMandalorian]

Where were they before?

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

​@@12thMandalorianWhatCulture I believe.

[@Danplaysbadly]

Love the chilled vibe you guys give off in these vids

[@Feelthefelt]

It seems so weird to me that someone would try and clone Hollow Knight. The thing that makes Hollow Knight so special are all the small touches that are so hard to replicate.

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

Ben failed to say tamarin is "inspired" by jet force gemini....or at least, It's the libretist's fault.

[@se_lym]

Fast & Furious: Crosswords. I'm intrigued

[@mrlister6626]

5 down: Pedal that makes car go faster

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

All the answers are "Family".

[@josemariapineda7627]

You forgot FIFA 21 for the Switch

[@josemariapineda7627]

@Jesus Pernia Probably not

[@ff_crafter]

Nice video as always

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Ooo was watching last years earlier. Thanks my dudes!

[@GenericNPCommentary]

I love the sarcasm in the analysis! More power to Triple jump!

[@TeleporterDown]

What song was that playing in the background?

[@EggBastion]

just vibes

[@brayden6449]

The worst game of 2020... was 2020.

[@JamesFromRedLedger]

3:15 OH BOY HERE WE GO SPORTS TIME

[@tonyrocker76]

What’s the background song in the first part of the video?

[@BILLIB1993]

Definitely didn't think that first game was called Ben Potter or anything. Also list idea, top 10 games awarded 69%?

[@bender2o]

"which, wasn't all that great to begin with..." I will never forgive you for this Ben.

[@NegativeEnergyX2000]

Name of the song in the video? Kind of sounds like a remix of Egg Quarters from Sonic Adventure 2

[@ulvercarvalho8349]

that tiny racer is mostly a unity template with some modifications, there is a game on steam called Barro that is exactly the same except probably worse

[@draig97]

I'm genuinely curious about Tamarin now, Ben you made it sound good! Blessings of the algorithm be upon you

[@LauKlijn]

I would love to see your guys personal worst games of 2020

[@geogantart]

Getting mad Jet Force Gemini vibes from Tamarin.

[@NickBLeaveIt]

Some dishonorable mentions: Pooplers (Yes, that’s the name) Bounty Battle (at least that was in the montage) Cooking Mama: Cookstar Femida Curse of Annabelle Super Tennis Make War Bless Unleashed Tamarin... looks like a fun game I wanna play 🤭

[@automat3000]

0:30 those trousers tho!!!

[@michellevietor8185]

You got me with the Atelier games. I will probably never live to play them all, but I will try!

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Get all the platinum trophies! ;)

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

"Remothered" is an obscure term for the goals of psychological experiments done decades ago to try and rewrite someone's brain from the ground up. It sounds hilariously misguided, but the lengths some people went to are truly the stuff of nightmares, though the game does not seem to be that on...ANY level.

[@strawberrymanga9]

What's the name of the background music? I would like to know.

[@dompne33]

I would quite like to play that Tamarin after this video haha

[@MrMadshepherd]

What was that game with the girl in the chef’s hat? And that one at the end with the spring legged character.

[@joedkat]

10:38 "[the original]...wasn't that great to begin with" BLASPHEMOR

[@Thelodis]

I was so looking forward for the XIII remake, because the original doesn't play well on a modern PC mostly because of bad (or none) UI scaling on higher resolutions. And it didn't run very well when it was new because i remember it to have some kind of mouse aiming deadzone that made it hard to aim, and a bug that prevented me from finishing a certain level.

[@GeneralGorillaSonicOC]

IGN gave Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX a bad review because the person reviewing it hates dungeon crawler games.

[@kenshig.8134]

I forgot about Tamarin and their enemies looking ripped straight out of Jet Force Gemini.

[@scotthamilton9515]

Support TripleJump! Join the Walrus Clan!

[@TheMartinChronicles]

Is that Orko in Gleamlight?

[@Correc7edAura]

The first 'Disaster Report' on the PS2 was great. I played that way back in the early 2000s and that game definitely had me remember it for a long time. It wasn't action packed or anything but it was definitely a game worth checking out. The first XIII game on the PS2 was actually pretty good. Idk want happened with the remake...

[@Christian-rn1ur]

3:20 did you see that ludicrous display last night?

[@amygrace9325]

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

[@Str0b0]

2:15 Is that Orko from MOTU?

[@callumohare]

lmao Tiny Cars really got me cause like wtf those cars weren't even tiny at all there was just a blurry depth of field effect everywhere. Those were some god damn full-size cars driving on full-size wood bridges beside full-size mountains

[@MrMattyG]

I love that kick-ass violin in the background 🎶

[@KemmerlingKomputers]

thanks to triple jump i now repeatedly say "stunt" in that certain way (you know) any time that word is spoken or someone does a trick

[@hectormugwump5530]

Good god! They released ES:Blades for Switch?? It was an okay timekiller to dip into on a phone but jheeze.

[@IofSheikah]

If I was a boss at Nintendo, I’d have people play test all the games that want to get released on the eShop and turn down all the shovelware. I feel like the sheer abundance of shovelware on switch tarnishes it a bit. The console has some absolute gems but then has 200 mobile trash game for each good game

[@speedwaynutt]

Hey Look a list on possible future Worst Games Ever episodes

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

We better send them these games so they will eventually play them.

[@shahrouh]

Can't believe how many of these I've played: Tamarin, Dawn of Fear (not that bad), F&F C, which had a story mode I though wasn't bad, but the online mp was awful and you couldn't even play through multiple matches because of glitches which forced shutting down the game. I also own Remothered: BP because I thought the first wasn't bad. Sad to hear it didn't fare well but will play through it regardless. Also, for XIII, they're releasing a fixed next gen version, after my copy kept crashing and faced frequent bugs. But one will need to pay to upgrade to the next gen version, so I'll avoid it entirely. As far as I'm concerned the devs should be ashamed.

[@grungelives]

I’m surprised you placed FF crossroads at 4 That shit was blasphemy lol

[@cheritripp9470]

#9: One of the characterlooked a lot like Orka from Master Of The Universe. 🤔

[@nepetaclose1338]

i loved arc of alchemist, its v buried in its devs tropes, but it was a fun time, one of my favs of the year.

[@frootloot6789]

really confused on the percentages lol

[@stingyringpiece]

wasn't that orko from he man in gleam light!!

[@roryk101]

I can tell Sharna wrote this list, it's great

[@ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious]

Do the top ten worst top ten games of 2020, so a list of the top ten in reverse.

[@wizzardoffuzz]

Oh yeah, here we go, sports time. I’ve never played a street ball game before, but I’ll give it my best shot.

[@domotormate]

A shame about Dawn of Fear. I love classic Resident Evil like games, so I was gonna give that a try, until I saw the price tag in the PS Store. This "quality" does not justify 16 £.

[@moagnor]

Is Fast and Furious Crosswords based on the OLD Burnout engine? It certainly looks like it!

[@boxdryer6973]

Did ben left whatculture?

[@TheManInTheLongBlackCoat]

Tiny Racer = Micro Machines.

[@jackgoodwin125]

Fast and the furious cross roads Nuff said

[@iamthedrumandbassfarmer8735]

Apparently the F&F folks were a right pita to work with. Typical licensed movie game story imo

[@Fat-Jim]

Holy God what a piece of crap blades was

[@ericmacgillivray537]

Only one I heard of was F and F game...damn

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Was very hopeful for the XIII remake... Too bad lol. The original + mods on PC gets it done tho

[@death5talker45]

I surprised Fast & Furious Crossroads didn't take the #1 Spot

[@Vervaticus]

Nr 1 is litteraly a asset flip, I played plenty of version from that game on steam, its all the same.

[@jamesstaggs4160]

Not gonna lie, watching the little Tamarin thing run scratches the "Awwww! Wook at da wittle furry thing wun! So cute!" itch. Yeah. I'm a middle aged man that has that particular itch. Wanna fight? Yeah I didn't think so...

[@Tricolorrr533]

Hold me closer 10:42

[@andrewbeaven2939]

I remember a game that got badly reviewed, but in my opinion it didn’t deserve it....Driver 3. Been playing it a bit lately. I didn’t think it was that bad then & still don’t now

[@jimllc]

Also Remothered sounds and looks a lot like Clocktower 3.

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Give the first one a try, it is decent. Remothered: Tormented Fathers that is.

[@reillymcwriting]

The only thing I want from KZbin now is a channel called “quadruplejump”

[@DemoDen]

Tiny Racer WGE?? You did it for The Last Unicorn, why not this?? Then again, there are many reasons why not..

[@romeolajh1602]

In fact Gleamlight does not look to bad ...i would try that game today

[@listerofsmeg884]

the character from #9 doesn't half look like that thing off He-Man

[@yourgameisstupid]

The XIII remake is a real headscratcher. Even the original had terrible gameplay; the entire appeal was its style. So in the remake they decided to... get rid of the style? Right.

[@dardestroy4502]

Xlll was never good!

[@demonic88]

yay ben video

[@XxWarmancxX]

Tamarin looks like a fucking blast to show people who don't know about it.

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

I didn't know Simon Pegg had a KZbin channel

[@gracekim25]

Ah a fast and furious game I’m aware of…. 6.3.22

[@robertlowe6367]

Tamarin looks like a rip off of Jet Force Gemini

[@yakovhadash]

bombastic STOONTS

[@fenz7219]

Good lord Tamarin straight up stole assets from jet force gemini. Enemy designs, the target reticle and gunplay.....

[@TheBersergner]

I can't believe you guys put 'Bounty Battle' in the intro but didn't feature it. That game was a fucking mess. I bought it off the back of featuring fish from Nuclear Throne and it was one of if not the worst game I've ever played. Mechanically shallow, creatively bankrupt (you have all the guns from Nuclear Throne and you have Fish use only the revolver, Shotgun and his guitar?!) and had so much slow-down that it is genuinely baffling with how little actually goes on on-screen. Plz re-evaluate and change your whole list for me, thank you.

[@thrice1987]

The first Remothered was actually pretty good

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Tiny Racer looks like Micro Machines, but made by a 10 year old.

[@gfear24]

I'm gonna say it's one of the sports games on the Switch. Either Madden 21, NBA 2K21, or FIFA 21.

[@roryk101]

I want to do fast and furious crosswords

[@jamallomax3801]

How the hell Madden 21 wasn't on this list?

[@TrevorSturman]

The next 10 Worst Games Ever?

[@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661]

I am geninuely ashamed of Remothered's sequel, the first game is fantastic, the second one is far too edgy and Dark for its own good, it also lacks on the pursuer elements mostly because it gets interrupted a lot.

[@list3058]

Tamarin sounds great. The original "XIII" is tops.

[@moonsaves]

Commenting to keep Al Goritham happy.

[@thefakenews3150]

Hold me closer tiny racer.

[@Clay3613]

The Nintendo Seal Of Quality meaning nothing since the Wii!

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

You mean the nes

[@gruntpocalypsenow]

It never meant anything to begin with

[@mnky75]

Remember, they're not bad games....they're just.....oh....sorry!

[@robertkeane9393]

I loved disaster report :(