Hey everyone, lets flip the script whats everyone’s worst game they played in 2025?
Mine is midnight murder club. Great concept but not much to the game at all
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I can’t immediately think of a terrible game that I played this year, but one that was ultimately a disappointment to me, after the absolutely atomic levels of hype, was Blue Prince. The rogue/RNG elements, and the sloooow drip feed pace that the game feeds you things to figure out and do, just were not for me. I can see what it’s going for and I think it would have been a really awesome 6 hour experience, but there’s not enough game there to keep it going for dozens of hours of restarting and repeating. Even my daughter who was super intrigued by the puzzles at first, only lasted a few hours before the repetition got to be too much.
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The Suicide of Rachel Foster - it’s a few years old by an indie team, with a really intriguing setting and story with a justifiably angry daughter coming back to close up her father’s hotel after he died, having left many years before with her mother when he’d had an affair with a teenage girl he was teaching.
Instead of being a haunting story about the impact on the two families and perhaps some exploration of the misplaced feelings that can arise (for example the mother seems as angry at the young girl as the husband, when she was clearly a victim, while the daughter was jealous of the attention), at the end it morphs into a weird attempt to celebrate their “love” and that it will last for eternity.
Basically, Rachel's father was controlling so she fell for the one man she had access to (who was also her father's best friend), the game doesn't seem to take into account that he was a teacher having an affair with an underage girl, the PC's mother killed Rachel in revenge - it wasn't a suicide - then left with the PC who was a child, and Rachel's weird brother (who's been freaking out your character and stalking them through the hotel) has been living in the hotel for years with the protagonist's father as they both missed her so much, and the father is meant to be some astrophysicist genius who knows she's in the stars / energy and he'll be with her again for eternity. Then it ends with overwhelmed, the protagonist trying to kill herself (you're able to stop her, just about) despite her having been a strong, confident person throughout.
It’s a truly disturbing ending - some people tried to justify it online saying the dev team are Italian and things are different there (plus some US states have fucked up marriage ages for example, including where this is set I think) but it really isn’t justifiable, it’s just creepy and is a complete about-turn from the first 80% of the game.
I actually felt revulsion and a bit icky after playing!
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I have played a lot of games this year and even the ones that weren’t for me, I didn’t think were bad.
But if I have to give the worst game award, for me this year that’s Obliviin Remastered. Because it’s a technical mess for me that gives me a headache.
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Dead Static Drive - None of its systems work well together, it’s just a complete mess despite the developer’s best intentions. Was super disappointed in that one, might be the worst Day One GP game I’ve reviewed.
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Knowing the games that I have left for 2025, I would say RoboCop: Unfinished Business mainly due to the technical issues. Constant stuttering/pausing, glitches here and there and frame rate drops. I rated it a 7.0/10 which isn’t bad but all my other games this year have been or should be an 8.0/10 or higher so this by default is my worse game of 2025 as it simply wasn’t ready for launch back in July.
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Either Mortal Kombat Special Forces or Mythologies Subzero (finished both in the legacy kollection)
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Bounty Star for me (it’s on Game Pass). It’s not awful, but really not good. I would rate it 4 or 3 out of 10. I played it for a bit, as I wanted to know if it would get better, but the game was just adding more boring stuff to do. Only the story held me on a thin thread until chapter 4 out of 11 or 12 which was already too much.
Jesse reviewed it iirc. That must have cost him a bit of his soul.
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I dont play many bad or disappointing games. Call me lucky.
This year only one game stands out. Blue Prince was praised by critics and the Internet and I thought this could be a nice puzzle game. It looked good. But no, it just wastes your time. I really should have known better - roguelike games with card deck mechanics are absolutely not my thing.
No big deal. 2025 was filled with lots of other great puzzle games (Old Skies, Seance of Blake Manor, DLC for Talos and Golden Idol, …) which i all liked very much.
One of the worst walking sim games i have ever played. Stay far away!
nah. the game is just terrible
same
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Blue Prince I loved the mechanic and puzzles at first.
Then once I’d realised the paths I needed, not getting them and therefore having whole runs completely wasted just pissed me off.
So I switched to PC (thanks Play Anywhere) where I could continue, but use a mod to give me unlimited items, so I could just draw again and again.
Defeats the object, but once I’ve figured out all the room layout mysteries the room drawing is nothing but a hindrance to solving the other puzzles, so I don’t regret it and it significantly increased my remaining time with it (as I was close to giving up in frustration) and actually enjoy the rest.
I can’t stand rogue likes / lites and don’t really like games with cards in them outside Gwent in the Witcher 3 so yep think I wasn’t the target audience - but with a bit of a cheat once I’d got the hang and got far in, and it turned it into one of the puzzle games I love…
(And yes completely agree on the other game lol - I’d played a few walking sims with great stories before it so was thinking it’s indie just persevere through the odd issue - but yeesh it went so bad so fast)
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Yeah, my sister loved Blue Prince and I liked the idea but didn’t want to waste my time on the randomness and dropped it very quickly. I probably would have liked your solution better as well.
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That is why I don’t bother with the vast majority of rogue-lite/like games anymore plus the element of randomness holds this entire genre back for me when compared to the more traditional handcrafted approach to level/encounter and in general game design. I’ve played some of the most well known in the genre but in the end the only games that I truly loved are Prey: Mooncrash and Spelunky. Enjoyed Hades, Void Bastards and to a lesser extent Dead Cells as well but I don’t have any intention or motivation in trying the sequels or the next games from those teams for example, I just had my fill I guess.
Back on topic the only game that I dropped this year is Nine Sols, it’s not a bad game by any means but I just didn’t jive with the gameplay/game mechanics (even though I really like action games that have parry as their main focus) plus I found it pretty dull in terms of art direction and uninteresting story/narrative wise too. Besides this one I had a lot of fun with all the other games I’ve played this year so it was a great year for me overall.
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