Video games: They're generally pretty good!

They can be fun, and smart, and beautiful, and challenging, and — sometimes — all of those at once.

And then sometimes, they can be none of those things at all. Sometimes, they're real, real bad.

"Ride to Hell: Retribution" is considered one of the worst games of the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 era. Deep Silver

Such is the case with the games you'll find below — the worst 50 games of all time, ranked according to their respective Metacritic scores.

These aren't the games we liked the least, or the games that told us we'd never amount to anything. Instead, what we've got here is something slightly more scientific: Reviews aggregation site Metacritic compiles all reviews of games, then it averages those scores into an overall average. This is the bottom 50 from that list (of over 15,000 games), with duplicates removed.

These 50 games are the absolute worst of the worst, according to critics: