Dungeons isn't like the others, but if there's one fair reason Dungeons has a good shout for being alongside them in a top 10 shittiest games of 2020 list it wasn't mentioned by Jim... and no it wasn't that it was a rip-off to charge more for the game & promised expansions than buying them separately, it was simply how utterly fucking broken it was. The usual general bugs like levels/enemies/bosses not spawning properly or being invincible or in their wrong phase, crashes, graphical errors, perks not being compatible/clashing, broken online play, glitching/semi-responsive perks/artifacts, trophies/achievements not popping, characters getting overwritten with other player's character data, different platforms with all manner of fruity unique bugs, etc., etc. and the very worst one - save game corruption - and not just one bug causing it but seemingly loads of potential triggers.
If anyone had to report a bug or 3 as I did on the official mojang jira bug tracker, you could have seen endless examples of all of these issues and plenty more, some of the most memorable from parents telling of their kids who are distraught after losing their save game by simply booting the game up/starting a game/ trying to play co-op and even just by having their controller disconnect, asking mojang to do the impossible and recover their characters which was never going to happen as all data was saved locally (and the ways it could be destroyed numerous). It wasn't just crying kids, there was one guy whose girlfriend was so upset she couldn't even think about playing with him again after losing many hours of progress and a guy similarly who couldn't face starting the game a 4th time after losing progression again. Really unforgivable with this kind of game where you invest so much in your character and their set up. Checked it a while back and noticed a *lot* of the older ones had been vanished, bzapped out of existence, consolidated or lumped in with other semi-related stuff. I kinda lost hope at that point despite thinking they were turning it around with their updates and plans. Looked again just now and there's still a hot mess of issues despite the patches and updates.
I backed up our saves every time we played, but my kid wouldn't play again after one of the 2nd DLC levels crashed on us right towards the end (he was in tears) He's a *huge* MC fan playing on tablet, computer and ps4 (often at the same time, I'm not really sure why lol), he's got PJs, slippers, dressing gown, t-shirts, posters, top trumps, duvet, soft toys, more than a PS5's worth in MC/MCD Lego sets, I'm probably forgetting half of it. Dungeons has the same names for things and similar looks for most things, but it never had anything that hooked him in or made him feel like he was playing a MC universe game beyond the superficial. So as a MC game, yeah I'd go as far as to say it's maybe shitty in that regard, too. I wouldn't have been qualified to make that statement msyelf back when I was playing Dungeons, but since then he got me into MC with him and he helped me platinum it, which opened my eyes to what the game involved so I can understand some of the comments in here regarding Dungeons playing it too safe and being too dumbed down a game to bear the MC name or some percieved notion that more depth would be too complex for mere MC players, that's laughable.
