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10 Most Disappointing Video Games of The Decade (So Far)
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7/9/2024
More than any other games in the 2020s, these have been the biggest letdowns. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, weโre counting down our picks of the most disappointing video games to have launched since 2020.
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Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the 10 Most Disappointing
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Video Games to have launched since 2020.
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Number 10 โ Suicide Squad โ Kill The Justice League
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No one truly had much hope for Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League, but there was a small
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bit of hope in our hearts.
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This was a new game from Rocksteady, the groundbreaking studio that showed us how to properly approach
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licensed games with the Batman Arkham series.
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Perhaps they had something to revolutionize the live-service market.
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While Suicide Squad does have some exceptional gunplay and controls, the level design and
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mission structure create an annoying and repetitive experience, particularly the ones that restrict
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you to one method in damaging enemies.
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Good ideas are here, but when they're muddled this badly with awful restrictions, how do
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you expect players to have any amount of fun?
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Number 9 โ Skull & Bones
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At one point, Skull & Bones did look like a worthy competitor to Microsoft's and Rare's
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own pirate-themed live-service game, Sea of Thieves, but that was back when Ubisoft revealed
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it in 2018.
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Then the delays started coming.
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And they didn't stop coming.
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Skull & Bones spent a tumultuous decade in development before it finally launched in
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February 2024 and what did we get?
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An open world with survival and crafting mechanics where our ships had stamina bars.
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The combat is fun for about 5 minutes and then it's nothing but open world fatigue
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from there.
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Go talk to this captain, go to this location, go blow up this one ship, go collect 20 pieces
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of wood to craft a hat.
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There is simply nothing here that justified our 70 bucks and it certainly didn't justify
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a decade of development hell.
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Number 8 โ LEGO 2K Drive
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LEGO and racing go hand in hand like peanut butter and honey.
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It's a delicious snack of a sandwich that can be enjoyable but is not ideal to eat if
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you want a full meal or stay awake for the rest of the day.
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LEGO 2K Drive had the potential to be on par with Forza Horizon or The Crew.
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The thing is that it doesn't do much with the LEGO IP outside of visuals.
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Sure you can build your own vehicles and you can plow through the destructible environments
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but that's kind of it.
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The missions don't do anything interesting either.
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It's your run of the mill Grand Prix's, time trials, collect-a-thons and what have you.
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And that's all without mentioning the awful monetization for season passes and currency.
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Number 7 โ Battletoads
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Microsoft knows they're sitting on a bed of beloved Rare IP but after the failure of
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Battletoads we have to wonder what's going on with Xbox.
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To its credit, Battletoads does match the look and feel of what the original games were
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going for.
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So what's the problem?
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Well, it doesn't take any cues from modern beat-em-ups.
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None of your attacks pack enough oomph to feel satisfying to pull off and the game simply
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wasn't difficult enough to live up to the Battletoads name.
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It's one thing to make a game accessible to younger or inexperienced players.
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It's another to just make it so comically easy that it's boring to play.
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Number 6 โ Gotham Knights
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With Batman Arkham Origins being the last game they developed, many were wondering what
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WB Games Montreal was capable of.
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Gotham Knights sounded like a good direction for the studio.
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Learn what Rocksteady did, get started on a successor to the Arkham games, make it a
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live service online co-op but no, no.
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This was nothing like what we wanted from a new Batman game.
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Grinding for a currency of evidence to unlock story missions, mindless melee combat that
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doesn't make any of the four playable characters feel different and why are Robin, Nightwing,
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Batgirl and Red Hood all so stupid in tracking down villains?
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And don't even get us started on some of the awful writing we had to suffer through.
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Number 5 โ Senua's Saga โ Hellblade 2
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Back in 2017, the first Hellblade game was a solid outing from Ninja Theory.
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The combat could have used some tweaking but the puzzles, visuals, story, enemy variety
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and sound design were top notch.
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Fast forward seven years later for the sequel and just what in the heck happened?
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Hellblade 2 is a step backwards in how every combat encounter feels the same while most
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of the game is spent pushing forward on super linear paths.
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Sure, the game looks great but graphics only take you so far when the player gets such
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little interaction with the world.
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In other words, Hellblade 2 is a prime example of the phrase, all that glitters is not gold.
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Seriously, five years of development, five years?
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Number 4 โ Atomic Heart โ Roblox
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Atomic Heart was one of 2023's biggest ball drops.
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Here we had a game that was clearly inspired by games like System Shock and Bioshock and
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presented the topic of robots overthrowing the human race.
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Sadly, it missed the mark in understanding what made its inspiration so great.
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System Shock and Bioshock weren't just loved for their aesthetics, they had something interesting
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to say through their worlds.
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Atomic Heart simply wound up becoming narcissists, admiring its own aesthetic so much that it
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forgot to do anything else to survive in a super competitive market and thus, it died
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as quickly as it arrived.
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Perhaps we'd be singing a different tune if there was more refinement in the combat and
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less focus on running around rummaging through cabinets for stuff.
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Number 3 โ Redfall
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While many groaned over another AAA studio making yet another online co-op game, Redfall
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did have something to catch eyes โ vampires and kick-ass powers.
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But the more Xbox showed off Arkane Austin's new toy, the worse it looked, and it even
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got worse than that at launch.
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Redfall was released with a myriad of bugs, ranging from AI failing to properly detect
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players to parts of the environment not even loading in.
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It wasn't awful enough to render it unplayable, but it was abysmal enough for the game to
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be the butt of so many jokes, especially jabs made at Xbox.
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Arkane Austin would be one of the four studios Xbox would shut down in May 2024.
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Redfall got its final update shortly after, adding in offline support.
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Number 2 โ Overwatch 2
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Overwatch 2 may have a playerbase today, but Blizzard burned many, many players just by
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developing it.
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The original Overwatch was already considered by many to be perfect the way it was.
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The only problem was Blizzard quitting on it after adding one final character in April
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of 2020.
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So, if Overwatch 2 is a necessary push forward, it's gotta have new maps and game modes,
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right?
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It's the exact same game, save for teams consisting of 5 players instead of 6, some
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character redesigns, and maps taking place at different times of the day than they did
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before.
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Cool.
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So in other words, we killed the original game just to move the light source and take
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a player away from both teams.
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Make sense?
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Number 1 โ Marvel's Avengers
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Much like Redfall, Avengers looked worse and worse the more Crystal Dynamics and Square
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Enix showed the game.
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Unlike Redfall, the waft of Avengers was a lot more present in the months leading up
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to launch.
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All they had to do was make an exciting game starring Captain America, Iron Man, Thor,
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Red Hulk, and whoever else they wanted to add in.
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What they gave us was a live service game with a horrible monetization scheme, a bland
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story, mundane combat, and a total lack of enemy variety.
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Throw in arbitrary RPG mechanics like power levels and gear, and what you were left with
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was a game that wanted more money from you for very little effort.
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Square Enix would eat a $60 million loss from this game and would sell off Crystal Dynamics
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to Embracer Group in 2022.
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Marvel's Avengers was marked down to $5 several times after launch before getting
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delisted from digital storefronts in September 2023.
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Which video game disappointed you the most?
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Let us know down in the comments!
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