10 Worst Video Games Of The Century So Far

Listen, we don't like making negative lists if we can help it but, given that our most popular non-list show is literally called "Worst Games Ever", it kinda comes across like you guys WANT to see this sort of content. Let's face it, you know exactly what to expect from this video; Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, WWE2K20, they're all here. So sit back and let us tell you all about the 10 Worst Video Games of The Century So Far
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Alex Winters (@MrSteakFace)
#AliensColonialMarines #SonicBoom #WWE2K20
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[@Dreznin]

The #1 spot's description reminds me of a very old PC Gamer review from the late 90s... I forget the game, but it was the lowest I'd ever seen them rate something at the time and in their list of Pros/Cons, the only listed Pro was, "the uninstaller works."

[@mattrichman3536]

I'm surprised Metal Gear: Survive was not on this list. It has a colon!!!

[@mikewicked]

That was the one that immediately came to mind when I saw the title. I'd rather play umbrella corp.

[@pseudonymous6921]

metal gear survive is so bad, i never even bought it, and yet i still feel like konami owes me a refund for it. its almost similar to number 10, where its a shitty game that they just slapped a popular franchise's name on the title and called it a day. it also didn't help that they tried to charge people real money just to unlock a second save slot

[@amadeusagripino6862]

@Jo Ke you mean Silent Hill PACHINKO machines, right?

[@joeywalker2061]

@@pseudonymous6921 eh it's a bad game but at least the gameplay is a Carbon copy of mgs5 which has excellent gameplay umbrella corps is awful in every single way while mgs survive has a few redeeming qualities.

[@MegatronYES]

COAL AHN

[@benjendersen]

There is one good thing to say about Ride to Hell. It gave us one hell of an entertaining episode of Worst Games Ever.

[@michaelmemmott1050]

I would say that's my favorite episode ever! Sniper 2 and Sonic 06 are close seconds

[@AngryVikingPkR]

yes it was realyy funny if you want more laugh i recomennd angry review of that game by angryjoe you will laugh

[@funcoolfunfun]

Rise of Lyric is probably the only game I've ever played where I felt literally nothing while playing it I played it for like two hours, and it never got a single reaction out of me whatsoever.

[@ArtseyHayton06]

The animations were mildly great... Huh.. That's something I'd compliment about it.

[@BiscuitMerchant]

Right, the first video back in the office better feature Ben in a fez. 😂

[@philbateman1989]

Even the devs hated TR: Angel of Darkness. There are tons of interviews where they straight up admit that it sucked and was horrible to work on. Same goes for TR: Chronicles. They didn't even want to make it, they were contractually obliged to produce a 5th game (despite having killed off Lara in the previous game) and no other studio they tried to outsource it to would take it on, so they had to just half-ass a compilation game on minimal resources. They even bundled the game engine and development tools with the PC version so much as to say "You want more Tomb Raider? Bloody make it yourself." XD A lot of people did, though, including me. There's still a big active community producing levels and even full games to this day.

[@GhostNappa2k10]

First time I ever was exposed to anything Tomb Raider related was Angel of Darkness as a bloody DVD game. So needless to say, took me years to actually get into the franchise after that.

[@lilbill7385]

What’s a dvd game

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

@@lilbill7385 Essentially it's like a interactive movie like dragon's lair but sometimes but not always it's worse,essentially you spend half the game making decisions and watching what the result of your decision is.

[@rebel-moto5862]

I would still love to see Angel of Darkness remade but actually done well. I loved that game as a kid and loves the darker tone they were going for, it was just a shame the core game was fundamentally broken

[@bronco5591]

I didn't think I'd own a game on this list but I do still have Simpsons wrestling

[@SpaceMissile]

what character(s) do you main?

[@MrMallard19]

Fun fact, Aliens: Colonial Marines is as bad as it is because the coders made a typo. From my recollection, the aliens are meant to be attached to a "tether" to lead them through levels and to get them to attack players and stuff. Except in the code of the game, "tether" was misspelled as "teather", breaking the game.

[@lunat6952]

I can watch Angry Joe's review of Ride to Hell: Retribution again and again

[@amadeusagripino6862]

TO THE RIGHT AND XPLODE!

[@joeywalker2061]

You should also watch rerez review it they're also Hilarious

[@jenniferpruitt6534]

AVGN did a review of it and I can watch that again and again.

[@AunCollective]

Worth A Buy's video is definitely worth watching.

[@simplyhuman3982]

Why?

[@BDUF]

They couldn't include Cyberpunk 2077 because a collection of bugs that sometimes doesn't crash isn't technically a "game"

[@wyterabitt2149]

Our just the fact that it's a good game with some issues that even close to the start didn't greatly effect most people.

[@Z64sports]

@@wyterabitt2149 the story sucks. Watched 2 playthroughs and didn't know what was even going on by about half through

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@Z64sports "I don't understand so it's bad" is a you problem.

[@YourPal1]

To be fair, Cyberpunk is better than all the other games on the list and a lot of other bad games.

[@midierror]

I can't believ you forgot COLON: COLON WARS THE COLON GENERATION

[@kriscynical]

COLONIC BOOGALOO

[@Emannnen]

You've forgotten about Life of the Black Tiger!! OMG!!

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

Don't forget Vroom in the Night Sky too

[@tylarjackson7928]

I think they went for Worst Mainstream Games of the Century. Like AAA or close to that. There are hundreds of indie games that have received horrible 0%-25% reviews that they could have mentioned, but that wouldn't resonate with people.

[@theonlybilge]

@@tylarjackson7928 Except Depression Quest, that's very mainstream.

[@theonlybilge]

Made by FRED FUCHS

[@cofagrigusfan24]

me after readin the title: oh no me after seeing the video: phew, no Balan Wonderworld me to the other commenters: i honestly like that game

[@kriscynical]

.......welp, I managed to find the One Person on the Internet™ who inevitably kinda liked Balan Wonderworld. I knew they had to be out there somewhere. (I'm just poking you in good fun, btw.)

[@MeatSnax]

This list focuses a lot on the previous 2 generations, and I've gotta say that while those games might have been terrible compared to their peers, most of these games have NOTHING on the sixth generation of consoles. Drake of The 99 Dragons? BMXXX? Fight Club? Say what you will about the games on this list, but most of them have the lessons of Resident Evil 4, God of War, and Halo somewhere in their DNA that makes them marginally playable. I'd rather play a game that scored 20% on metacritic in 2008 than a 60% in 2001, because they straight up didn't know what the fuck they were doing.

[@LarvicarioZ]

2k20 deserves to be on this list not because it's actually in the 10 worst games to play but thanks to the massive budget and fact it was part of a long running series, for the expectation to result ratio it is definitely up there

[@tylarjackson7928]

I think that was the unspoken basic premise for this video man. There were many budget games with worse scores they could have mentioned instead.

[@LarvicarioZ]

@@tylarjackson7928 aye I know, just commenting for the people who would complain 2k20 is on the list ahhaa

[@ArtyIF]

fun fact about colonial marines' glitchy ai - as one user found out, it was glitchy because there was a single typo in the game scripts that the devs didn't notice or didn't bother fixing by release!

[@BOABModels]

I can't wait for you to do the final version of this video in 79 years - will anything have topped Ride to Hell?

[@timmaay24]

I played the simpsons wrestling when I was a kid because I liked both. And I’ll never forget repeatedly getting my ass WHOOPED by Flanders.

[@Devo_gx]

Somehow “Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing” didn’t make this list? Is it because it was a PC-only title? Hell, it even has a freakin’ COLON in it too!!!!!

[@DragonGrafx-16]

It's a so bad it's good game lol...

[@sorlakvader155]

It is a mess of a game because it was released in a beta state. I think games that were fully developed such as umbrella corps deserve the spot better. Don't get me wrong, even if big rigs was released in finish state it would continue to be a stinky pile of garbage.

[@WinstonSmith685]

You're Winner!

[@GeekGamerGui]

I wouldn't say these games are the worst of the century, I'd rather say they are the most disappointing because there were expectations. There are many many other games who are way worst, but they are small unknown games with no expectations from the public.

[@oaktownklaygounds1539]

How is Tony Hawk pro skater 5 not here?!

[@Modrunnermusic]

That game was absolute trash. Id be no where near a ledge and it would snap me over to grind. It was so unbelievable and really steered away from the original games.

[@jenniferpruitt6534]

The publisher was too busy getting it out because the licence they had was about to expire. So they pulled off the stunt of having buyers paying full price for a tutorial. Then the rest of the game was downloaded in the guise of a patch. I did not own this, but even I could see this was a scam...

[@IceKoldKilla]

Aliens with some mods and fix for that AI (btw turned out to be one grammar mistake in some code lol no lie) is pretty great from what I've seen and heard.

[@filmbuff2777]

That was not a mistake. Gearbox deliberately left in that typo. I've not played it with mods, but it does seem much harder to me after fixing the typo.

[@felman87]

I'm surprised Balan Wonderworld didn't make the list. I'd replace Warcraft 3 with it. Don't get me wrong, Reforged is absolutely disappointing, but I wouldn't consider it "worst" anything. The game is still fun but in a "knock-off homemade version of the thing you really enjoy" kind of way. It's store-brand Warcraft 3, which is unbelievably disappointing because, well, Blizzard isn't store-brand anything.

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Way hey, I love it everytime the lads mention Stoke On Trent. Don't worry lads we love you here!

[@devanshouse5027]

Big Rigs, Life of Black Tiger, Kabuki Warriors and Shrek: Fairytale Freakdown?

[@Waterford1992]

Ride to Hell was developed in a business park located in Waterside Drive, Gateshead and i used to live in a street that was close by.

[@seanmurry6903]

Part of the reason Aliens Colonial Marines was so bad, is because the funding for it was embezzled for another game. Randy pitchford at gearbox studio, funneled most of the funds over to Borderlands 2. So they could make the game they envisioned. I'll take that trade personally

[@VillaFanDan92]

I was just this morning, rewatching the Vidiots video with Cultaholic where you play Simpsons Wrestling

[@theboulder3278]

Dishonorable mentions: Drake and the 99 Dragons and Metal Gear Survive

[@williamsmith666]

"Resident Evil 6, considered by far to be the sort of the 8 numbered games..." (Resident Evil 5 wipes nervous sweat off its brow...)

[@Modrunnermusic]

Tony hawk pro skater 5 was an absolutely shit game. Deserves a spot here.

[@Gamesta100]

I actually like Angel of Darkness. But I like or even love a bunch of bad games like Duke Nukem Forever.

[@Custer_X_Of_The_DAU]

You guys forgot some games: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5, Life Of Black Tiger, Fallout 76, Metal Gear Survive, Mindjack, Power Rangers Mega Battle, and Big Rigs Off The Road Racing.

[@TravJam317]

Fallout 76 is fine now.

[@vadimushakov5883]

Duke Nukem Forever on it's release.

[@williamsmith666]

And major props for the Bomberman Generation footage; easily the most fun Bomber title.

[@blunderingfool]

To be fair to BomberMan Act0, whilst that design is a terrible bomber-man design it's a pretty cool robot/armour design.

[@mrk717]

Have you guys ever played Big Rigs:over the road racing?

[@tylarjackson7928]

Not sure, but they've mentioned it in a lot of lists.

[@nogidoki3325]

Its a good game wdym

[@kimbob5]

Thing is with Big Riggs is that it was heavily under the radar until more recent years when people like AVGN started doing videos on it.

[@Z64sports]

@@kimbob5 a little before that it was at least known because of some smaller KZbinrs showing it

[@eliflores7087]

Nah man. That’s the best game ever period.

[@theonlybilge]

The only good thing to come from current WWE games is the Vinesauce Vinewrestle

[@Roadent1241]

And that WRESTLING IS NOT FAKE video that I have laughed at with friends for years, and I don't even like or understand wrestling to start with. I just like glitches/corruptions.

[@wizzardoffuzz]

Big rigs over the road racing? How quickly they forget.

[@James-gj8rn]

DO YOU WANT TO BE EATEN ALIVE?! No THEN GET OUT OF HERE!! - Nebbercrack (i loved Monster House)

[@gaigestorm8155]

"DO YOU WANNA BE A DEAD PERSON?!" "No, I love life." "THEN STAY AWAY FROM MY HOU. H..H..."

[@jeanpaulsinatra]

13:49 as a matter of fact, I did. You should crowbar a Lion King reference into every video you do

[@supposedhumanmars]

I was SO disappointed by Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. As a hardcore Tomb Raider fan, it broke my little black heart.

[@lifeispuzzling]

This is my new favorite channel

[@Justforvisit]

We need a new List, now we have "Gollum", easily the new top 1...or at least sharing a spot with Ride to Hell

[@wl2146]

How dare you put Simpsons Wrestling on here😂😂

[@Nightweaver1]

Also, did you guys know that back in 2015, the (now defunct) Super Best Friends Play channel did a FULL playthrough of Ride to Hell: Retribution? To this date the only channel I've seen with enough balls to actually finish that pile of dog filth.

[@paulbillows123]

I gotta be honest, I kinda wanna play Ride to Hell.... just out of morbid curiosity

[@ultraslang]

4:15 WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! THAT BURGER HAS 2 TOP BUNS!!!!

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Someone gave me Simpsons Wrestling for Christmas many years ago. Not so much a gift as a clever insult.

[@dwiedergut1994]

You forgot to mention the XIII Remake. Playing this game was an absolute nightmare.

[@jamesvancam]

What a disgrace to the original it was:/..utter disappointment

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@jamesvancam Nah

[@jamesvancam]

@@wyterabitt2149 but it is though, poor framerate, different art design which looks worse than its predecessor, alot of visual & audio bugs/glitches, and dumb AI. Have u played the remake? It's an unpolished unfinished mess.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@jamesvancam All of it. And when you post something that digital foundrys technical breakdown objectively proves is nonsense, then I have doubts whether you did (although it is a lie whether you did or didn't). It is locked at 30 and at worst drops a frame or two at the most extreme moments for a second - very rarely. Resolution is great as well. Art design is just complaining because it is a little different, has nothing to do with the game being good or bad.

[@jamesvancam]

@@wyterabitt2149 wth does this have to do with Digital Foundry? Where is their vid on the topic matter? It's widely regarded as a failure and a flop that didn't live up to the expectations of the original. Face it, its recieved negatively critically and by players alike, you're trying to prove nothing and you wont persue anyone that it was a good remake, well def not me at least.

[@kriscynical]

Just tonight I had the horrifying realization that September will be 20 years since 9/11. It originally happened when I was a junior in high school so... yeah... get off my goddamn lawn so I can yell at clouds in peace.💀

[@njp2k914]

‘The Simpsons skateboarding’ and ‘pimp my ride’ would both be on mine!

[@haniespanieldollis]

Not sure who wrote the script to this one, but it's great writing so more of this please

[@jrand2148]

Sonic 06, so bad it's not even good enough to be on the list.

[@BM-wh5qk]

Superman 64 is lucky that it came out in 99.

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

Cool, now play all of these on stream until you've completed them.

[@TheHeavyMetalDude666]

Postal 3 Be Like:- I'll Pretend I Didn't See That :)

[@Nightweaver1]

"Cheese are also great." --TJ, 2021

[@philbateman1989]

They ended up giving away Simpsons Wrestling for free with a newspaper in the UK XD

[@NCTStudio]

ET. Not only did it nearly murder the gaming industry, it also turned Atari into a horny toad.

[@budaroddy]

Totally would be a part 2 of this

[@albajos1976]

No Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust? Both the worst and ugliest game I have played this century

[@Dr170]

Can we stop the narrative about WWE 2K20 being one of the worst games ever made already? It's a lazy annual identikit wrestling game whose worst glitches have been ironed out a long time ago, and that's about it. It's perfectly playable a majority of the time, if not much else. It's not even the prime example of WWE game failure, as the Wii U version of 2K18 is one of the worst ports in history, and SvR 2008 and 2011 are unmitigated broken messes in their own right, if any patching work was ever done on any of them, the improvement is so marginal so as not to make a difference. Unimaginative dogpiling that defers to review aggregation scores is the level of zero effort I expect from 2K Games, not you guys.

[@AAGJLMOSY]

If we're being real then none of these games on this list are the "worst". A small dip in the indie market will prove that(Like the hundreds of indie games on the 360 or Ouya). Not to mention the abundant amount of terrible games from previous consoles.

[@ManinTidyWhities]

Ride to hell retribution isn't that universally panned. Apparently worse player, DSP, likes the game that he tries to be some kind of contrarian because he thought being a contrarian is cool

[@dazzaMusic]

Surprised Duke Nukem forever didn’t feature it entirely killed off the franchise

[@CoyotePark]

I guess sonic 06 is not one of the worst games ever? You know that it's not even playable..

[@dylanogg347]

07:25: Only one four letter word: Damn!

[@Syrhunter1]

WC3 reforged took away multiplayer ranked ladders, fundamentally changed the EULA on their custom map maker allowing blizzard ownership (can't have another DOTA), and introduced additional instability for of all things LAN tournaments. It's really hard to find anyone who is all that happy with reforged. I legit think it only sold because it came with WoW vanity items. But who wouldn't want to roll around on a meat wagon?

[@colondnb]

I had fun with this episode 🤣

[@danielmcleod9249]

Angel Of Darkness was actually pretty decent tbh (if you have the PC version). Same With Aliens Colonial Marines if you use some mods for them. I'd even argue that AoD was better than the all the games from the last trilogy since at least AoD actually FEELS like a TR game, and had good to great level design for the most part.

[@dylanogg347]

10:59: Yeah, the franchise has really layed the SmackDown on it's own candy ass at this point.

[@GoonieLord]

Lets not forget Cyberpunk that was a national disaster

[@josecoon-adams4816]

I used to own Ride To Hell Retribution, and yes it was terrible, I didn't even brag about it to my buddies,I sold my copy after a week of playing it.

[@KatarnCrusader]

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor should be Nr 1 ! Its virtually unplayable.

[@sephirothii13]

I do believe I know the reviewer you are talking about when it comes to Ride: it doesn't have right to have it's name finished.

[@caro_lam]

shout out to jawnny, shout out to duel, shout out to htial with the two chicken sandwiches

[@BleedGreen2023]

I remember watching live on Twitch when they “broke” 2k20. Legendary night.

[@jajkomaster]

Ride to Hell is a bad game, that's for sure, but I actually had fun playing it. One thing this game has that mesmerises me is the general art style, I mean when you see the loading screen you really get a hint of what this game could have been...

[@vorpal8285]

Warcraft 3 Reforged does not at all deserve to be on this list. You can play it and have a blast.

[@Evilfetus15]

This list is sadly missing Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing :(

[@pigbat85]

funny story... couple years back I shit talked Uwe Boll on facebook.... and he messaged me PRIVATELY hahahaha

[@erics8192]

has "big rigs, over the road racing" become so fondly remembered for "you're winner!" now that it avoided this list?

[@tinkerer3399]

Big Rigs doesn't hit their mark for minimum number of official reviews and is thus excluded from most of their lists.

[@rjt135]

You can't have plops without a colon.

[@philbateman1989]

Speaking of the original Alone in the Dark, try going back and playing it today. It's controls are crooked as all fuck and the puzzles are completely obtuse in every way, such as basically being "you need this item from ages ago at this random point or something will just kill you", but for some reason, it's still... Somehow good in a way that's almost impossible to describe. 2 and 3 are also decent, but just don't have that same odd charm.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

Sonic Boom looks like a reskin of a cancelled Jak & Daxter sequel. Not entirely terrible for what it is, but if you're expecting to go fast and rely on quick reflexes and platforming to find secrets, and instead end up punching waves of enemies with light platforming elements, then you haven't made a Sonic game.

[@caseymauldin8396]

Man I can think of so many games that could have been on this list. Metal Gear: Survive Big Rigs Over The Road Racing and someone down below reminded me of Life of the Black Tiger to name a few. At the same time look at all of the absolute crap asset flips on steam!!!! This has to become a series or something!

[@dragonfire420blazin8]

Perhaps they should make a part 2

[@lmcgregoruk]

Well I guess It's back to Flatout 3:Chaos and Destruction and Big Rigs:Over the Road racing then.

[@OuroborosChoked]

The one thing that always baffles me about videos that mention how awful Ride to Hell is is when it's mentioned that there are "fully-clothed" sex scenes. Like, you're not objecting to the sex scene... you're just disappointed that they're fully-clothed? In your view, would it be _better_ if they were full-on X-rated? I would understand the point of mentioning them if, for example, what was being said was "the unnecessary sex scenes which aren't even slightly erotic and are weirdly fully-clothed." But just pointing out that the sex scenes are fully-clothed sounds more like "dang it!' instead of "this was a really weird thing to do", you know?

[@neonrelmsproductions4224]

The only thing worse than ride to hell retribution was the story of the games development, a story of tragic loss.

[@WFOChevrolet30]

I must have missed a part of the list. I didn't hear Cyberpunk 2077.

[@Martynde]

Ride To Hell is a hilarious game to watch KZbinrs play (suffer through). That experience alone puts it at the best worst game on the list.

[@martinmalenak366]

WhatCulture boyband fell apart, so now we getting these solo attempts? Give me a break!

[@edwardblangsted4540]

Good reference to Yahtzee Croshaw

[@seanmurry6903]

Isn't the character redesign from Bomberman Act Zero, actually the original image on the very first Japanese Bomberman title on NES...? Anyone who knows please lemme know, bc I swear I've seen that same model in a late 80's pencil style

[@B0RB0N]

What about Wander? I suppose it's so bad it doesn't even deserve to be on a list of bad games

[@Dabbewear8382]

What about Duke Nukem: Forever?

[@joewire7368]

Hey there! Did i make top 40?

[@deadtbh9868]

Idk if you have a one game per franchise rule, but if not I feel sonic free riders deserves at least an honorable mention.

[@feralchild6987]

I only played like 1 of these games

[@zeokin9531]

Seems like all you did is go on Metacritic and find the worst scores and listen and believe everyone there. Also if Ride to Hell is so bad you think you could have shown more glitches than one.