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These games suck - here are the worst games we've played so far in 2023
9K View2023-06-2718 games listedBetween all of the staff members here at TapTap, we’ve played hundreds of new releases in the first half of 2023, many of which have been amazing. We're not here today to talk about the good games though. No, today we’re taking a look back at the worst games we’ve played so far this year.
Note: The list below is presented in alphabetical order, not in order from least bad to most bad or vice versa. They’re just all really bad. Trust us.
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Against War? More like against...wasting your time...with this game! Listen, jokes are hard, but trying to compete in this player-versus-player card-battling strategy game without paying real money is even harder. It’s one of those games where it’s nearly impossible to make progress without paying up early and often.
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This tactical strategy game certainly looks great, and we were intrigued by the way it blends Game of Thrones-style gritty fantasy with Lovecraftian horror. Unfortunately, the simplistic combat didn’t pull us in. The bigger problem, though, is Annulus’s awful localization, which makes what could be an intriguing story impossible to follow.
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It’s hard not to give a game like Crime Boss some attention given its insane cast of legendary actors, including Kim Bassinger, Danny Trejo, and freakin’ Michael Madsen. That’s maybe the game’s greatest sin. It’s not just that it’s a terrible title full of repetitive missions and mind-numbing dialogue; it’s all of that while wasting the talents of its absolutely incredible actors. Shameful!
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Dragon Arise has a nice League of Legends-esque look to it, but the actual gameplay? Not so good. This is the epitome of a generic hero collector gacha. Not even the focus on dragons was enough to keep us interested for long.
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It’s cool seeing more developers try out Among Us-style social deduction games, and there have been some great twists on that style released. Dubium is not one of those great twists. It’s got a cool setup, but between the dull minigames, lack of real players to go against, and terrible bots, we just had no motivation to stick with this one.
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It’s tough to get horror games right, but the creepy Signs vibes that Greyhill Incident gave off in trailers had us hopeful. Alas, the game couldn’t deliver. The environment looks cool, but everything else about it pulled us out of the experience—laughably bad voice-overs, painfully slow movement, and infuriating enemies who kept sending us back to the game’s way-too-few checkpoints.
If this is the best we can hope for from an alien horror game, we’re ready for a UFO to beam us up and take us away!
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Technically this one came out right at the end of 2022, but we spent most of our time with it in January of this year. Gunbound is a Korean Worms clone that has a lot of fans, but this latest mobile version of the game was a pay-to-win nightmare. It’s no wonder the game couldn’t build up an audience; it shut down in April, less than six months after launching.
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Poor J.R.R. Tolkien must be rolling in his grave, with not one but two terrible video game adaptations of his epic fantasy series released within a month of each other. While Heroes of Middle-earth is generic (see below for more on that), Gollum is full-on awful. Who the heck even thought making a video game based on The Lord of the Rings’ most pathetic character was a goood idea?!
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Talk about a complete misunderstanding of what makes a series special! The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth takes one of the greatest fantasy sagas ever written and spins it into yet another generic mobile hero-collecting RPG. And even worse, it doesn’t even look good while shoving all the ways you can spend money down players’ throats!
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Minecraft Legends is far from the worst game on this list, but it may be the biggest fumble of an existing property that should have worked. Minecraft is massive, and the idea of mixing it with a new style of real-time strategy was compelling. Unfortunately, the gameplay loop of Legends was repetitive, and the balance was a joke.
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We loved the first two Outlast games, but the new title’s attempt to add co-op multiplayer fell flat. Single-player feels near impossible in The Outlast Trials, and multiplayer is a goofy mess that robs the game of the horror the series is known for. And that’s assuming you can even find a group where higher-level players don’t just leave immediately.
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There’s nothing immediately eye-catching about this generic fantasy game, but when we dug deeper we found out that Redemption Reapers was a tactical RPG made by some of the people who had worked on the Fire Emblem series, the absolute king of tactical RPGs. So what the heck happened here?! Almost everything about Redemption Reapers was bland and boring, from the writing to the map design to even character progression. What a bummer.
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What if Buffy the Vampire Slayer were turned into a video game by the people who made Dishonored? Sounds like something we’d want to play! Sadly Redfall turned those dreams into so much vampire ash floating away on the wind. It features a cool setting and some fun gun combat, but it all transforms into yet another live-service game, open-world slog that had us repeating the same content over and over. And it was especially disappointing for Xbox owners desperate for an exclusive to justify their console of choice.
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Ubisoft’s long-running city-building strategy series, The Settlers, got a new entry this year to coincide with its thirtieth anniversary. Too bad that latest game, New Allies, turned out to be a slow-paced slog that wasn’t really worth the time investment needed to make progress.
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The Tron movies are already an acquired taste, but Tron: Identity doesn’t do the franchise any favors with its brief, boring story. Even when the game takes a break from the visual novel format for some puzzle solving, it doesn’t help matters, because the one minigame offered here sucks.
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A new game from the creators of Ninja Gaiden that mixes sword slicing and gunfights? Why wouldn’t we be stoked for that?! Unfortunately, Wanted: Dead was a mess, with terrible shooting, bad level design, and writing that felt like it was done by an AI. At least the kills were stylish.
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Wild West Dynasty certainly sounded cool. The idea was basically to mix the cowboy fantasy of Red Dead Redemption with the survival and homestead-building elements of something like Valheim. Maybe that dream game will be realized one day, but in its early access form, Wild West Dynasty is a buggy disaster with bad animation, worse voice acting, and no real guidance or tutorials. Pass!
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We’ve played hundreds of games already in 2023, and surprising no one, a huge portion of those on mobile have been idle combat gacha RPGs. Some of them are bad, some are good, most are just kinda mediocre. But the worst of the worst so far this year has been Yggdrasil 2, an overmonetized, pay-to-win gacha title with super sketchy character design and nothing to help it stand out from the pack. It’s like a clone of every gacha game we’ve ever played with all the worst parts emphasized.
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wow congrats you really made it down here here is your reward 😚
2023-07-07
I was really disappointed with those LOTR games!
2023-06-28
But Yggdrasill 2 awakening aren't that bad, it have 4.5/5 on play store too
2023-07-15