What was the absolute worst game of 2019 you played?

[Phediuk]

They can't be all winners. Since it's GOTY season, let's flip over the dark side for a bit and let everyone know what your worst game of the year is.

I guess it's Anthem for me. I honestly don't know why I even bothered. It was discounted so quickly I figured I may as well give it a whirl, and yep, it's just as half-baked and bare-bones as everyone else said it was. And unlike in Destiny, which I suppose is the closest point of comparison, the "gamefeel" or whatever you want to call it was not good enough to keep me playing. I will grant, though, that Anthem is still the best "worst game of the year" I've played in several years, since I didn't play any cheap Steam trash in 2019.

how about you, Resetera?

 

[TheInfinityGauntlet]

Outer Wilds probably, it did nothing for me

 

[Zhao_Yun]

Out of all 2019 games that I've played Astral Chain was the worst. It's far from being a total disaster, but it was definitely worse than all other 2019 games that I've played thus far.

 

[hydruxo]

Probably Anthem as well. It's a shame because the combat is pretty fun and the feel of each individual javelin is great. It's just that virtually every other aspect of the game is undercooked and underwhelming. As someone who plays a lot of Destiny and Division, it's hard to play Anthem and not just constantly see faults in everything it's trying to do in comparison to other loot shooters.

 

[SavoyPrime]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I didn't hate it, it just didn't really do much for me. I found myself completing it just to complete it. That wasn't a feeling I had playing the TR reboot and Rise of the Tomb Raider. I really enjoyed those two entries of the franchise.

 

[lord_of_flood]

I've played very few titles this year, but of the titles I've played enough of, Astral Chain was probably the most disappointing. The combat's great, the art style is nice, and I actually do like the dungeon traversal element of the Astral Plane. Everything else is pretty bad though, especially the investigation segments and the story.

 

[Deleted member 59109]

Anthem

 

[Calvinien]

Fallen order.

How an offline game manages to be jankier than most online games is beyond me. That whole thing is just a mishmash of game elements that don't go together. If it didn't have the star wars licence, nobody would give it the time of day.

 

[monmagman]

Far Cry New Dawn....not actually a bad game(I don't play bad games),but not very memorable.

 

[Yukiko]

Anthem. It was only the open beta but I saw enough there.

 

[ThisIsBlitz21]

Outer Wilds probably, it did nothing for me

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Agreed with this. There's always that one indie each year that gets massively recommended only to turn out pretty meh, this year it was Outer Wilds.

 

[Betty]

The Outer Worlds.

- exploration wasn't fun
- stealth was terrible
- story fizzled out way too fast
- chromatic abberation everywhere
- filler quests as part of the main quest

I'd probably have liked it more 10 years ago, the writing was excellent though.

 

[AppleKid]

Honestly, of the games I've actually played this year, probably Death Stranding. Friend and I played for ~5 hours release weekend and, while it had its laughs, was also mega cringe and frustrating at times. Have never found a game so seemingly polished and finished to be so devoid of fun

 

[ClamBuster]

i have never deleted a game quicker than outer wilds... trying to control that mini lander made my blood boil

(felt reactionary, read up on game, common consensus said not for the impatient)

 

[Deleted member 15428]

Red Dead Redemption 2

 

[Deleted member 31817]

Anthem although I played less than 10 games released this year so far

 

[SunBroDave]

Praey for the Gods

Lol at all the people saying games like Outer Wilds and Outer Worlds

 

[32X4LYF]

Out of the games I played this year it has to be either Rage 2 or Metro Exodus. As a huge fan of the first two Metro games Exodus was a letdown on so many levels. The static environments were reminiscent of walking through a funhouse. No interaction, look but don't touch. The characters were some of the most forgettable characters I've ever encountered in a videogame. And the way they would all talk over each other was irritating. The gunplay felt like shit. Exploring was lame. Story was lame. The move from tightly scripted A to B style gameplay to this quasi open nonsense didn't fit the Metro gameplay style at all. So much about that game disappointed me.

Rage 2 was a whole other letdown. Boring open world. Shitty graphics. Try hard edginess. Etc etc. Terrible game.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

picross lord of nazarick
the picross part was good, but everything else around it (the music, the art, the writing, the story, the UI) was garbage.

 

[Chivalry]

Outer Worlds gave me a headache.

 

[shaneo632]

I played enough shitty games in 2019 to have a bottom 5:

5. WWE 2K20
4. Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
3. Left Alive
2. Contra: Rogue Corps
1. Eternity: The Last Unicorn

 

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[klik]

Days Gone. I really tried to like it

 

[Doggg]

Fear Effect Sedna. I think it was like around a dollar on Nintendo's eshop, lol. Still wasn't worth it. Just pure shit.

edit: oops, not a 2019 game. Well, it's the worst I played in 2019.

 

[Van Bur3n]

Anthem. Terribly made game, unfortunately.

 

[Castor Archer]

Of the few new games I played, Sekiro. Very disappointing coming off the Souls games.

 

[PinballRJ]

Outer wilds, basically just a Unity tech demo

 

[jdstorm]

Team Sonic Racing.

I really should have bought Crash Racing instead

 

[Deleted member 24021]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

 

[Deleted member 36578]

It;s this damn game. Also gets extra bad points for taking a beloved franchise and giving it a crappy entry in the series.

 

[Deleted member 31817]

Of the few new games I played, Sekiro. Very disappointing coming off the Souls games.

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[Deleted member 13645]

I'm going to say this is the game I bounced hardest off, rather than worst game. The Last of Us. I tried to play it and I had an absolutely miserable time for the 2 hours I played. Nothing appealed to me in terms of gameplay. I think it's a great game, just very much not for me and the game I enjoyed playing least this year.

 

[shinobi602]

DMC5

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It wasn't *bad* per se, but jesus the level design was absolutely dreadful. And V put me to sleep. I had more fun playing Ninja Theory's DMC lol.

 

[Shairi]

2019 was for the most part blacklog year for me. Those few 2019 games I played were all pretty good, so I will say Red Dead Redemption 2.

I played it a few month ago, what a chore to play through. And there was no real pay off. Story was repeating itself again and again with like 1-2 highlights in a 150 (?) hour journey.
So yeah, that was by far the worst game I played this year.

 

[jph139]

Of the games I've played, there's only two I didn't really find anything to enjoy: Mario Kart Tour and Gears 5. Dropped both after a couple of tries, just couldn't get into them.

There's a few others I'm lukewarm on (Outer Worlds has a lot of bad mixed with the good), but yeah, really just those two. I guess also the demo for Cadence of Hyrule, but that's more my complete lack of rhythm than anything wrong with the game...

 

[steviestar3]

Dragon: Marked for Death

It's not necessarily terrible but also I didn't play many bad games this year. The difficulty curve and general QOL features were severely lacking at launch. Also surprisingly boring music for an Inti Creates game.

 

[Synohan]

The games I've enjoyed the least this year are:
Pokemon Sword
Indivisible
And my love hate relationship with KH3

Not horrible games, but I didn't really enjoy them.

 

[obin_gam]

Outlast 2

 

[Samaritan]

Anthem, and it isn't even close.

 

[JudgmentJay]

Man of Medan. 4/10.

 

[captainmal01]

I've played 5 2019 games:

• Rage 2 - completed
• Metro Exodus - dropped for a future playthrough
• Outer Worlds - completed
• Jedi Fallen Order - At Dathomir, not judging it
• Total War: Three Kingdoms - 30 hours or so

Outer Worlds is the most disappointing game for a few years - and Three Kingdoms was a letdown - but Rage 2 is the worse game overall. Satisfying combat and poor execution on everything else.

 

[Kill3r7]

This is always a hard category as the vast majority of game's today are well made and rarely fall into unplayable messes. I guess Anthem would be it. Although I enjoyed the flight/combat mechanics enough to beat it and play it for about 80 hours which is more than I can say for several other games.

 

[ArrogantBastard]

No doubt about it, Anthem.

 

[ghostcrew]

Mario Kart Tour. What a travesty.

 

[AllChan7]

Probably Pokemon Sword. Its not nearly as bad as the worse of new games in 2019 but its not as good as everything else I played.

But looking at everything that came out, Anthem, Crackdown 3, WWE2K20, and Breakpoint seem like among the worse of 2019 from impressions, reviews and gameplay

 

[Deleted member 46948]

Anthem, no contest.
There were a bunch of mediocre games I've played this year, or games where some design decisions were bad, but Anthem was barely a game.

 

[Deleted member 45765]

Outer wilds, basically just a Unity tech demo

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[EntelechyFuff]

Indivisible.

What I had hoped would be a spiritual successor to valkyrie profile ended up as if it were made based on a passing description of VP.

Honorable mention to Bloodstained, which was literally the opposite of SotN from a design perspective.

 

[JigglesBunny]

I had more fun playing Contra: Rogue Corps than Days Gone. I absolutely loathe that thing.

 

[CaptainKashup]

Toss up between Outer Worlds and Death Stranding.