Top 10 Most Hated Video Games of 2024

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Brace yourself for a journey through gaming's most controversial releases of 2024! We're counting down the titles that sparked outrage, disappointment, and heated debates among players. From technical disasters to creative missteps, these games left a lasting impression for all the wrong reasons.

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 video games

00:11that received a massive amount of hate in 2024.

00:2610.

00:27Silent Hill – The Short Message

00:28Usually, making a game free to play is a good way to mitigate bad publicity, but in this

00:36case it was not.

00:38Silent Hill – The Short Message was widely hated for not its short length or its bare

00:42bones gameplay, but rather the lack of any meaningful message behind its story.

00:47For the roughly three hour playthrough, all the game says is how depression and anxiety

00:52are awful without really conveying the true struggles behind them.

00:55It's merely a hollow shell of serious subject matter desperately trying to replicate the

01:00clever storytelling we experienced in Silent Hill 2.

01:069.

01:11Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection

01:17Credit where credit is due, Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection has gotten better since

01:22it launched in March 2024.

01:24However, the catastrophic launch has forever tainted its reputation.

01:28Battlefront Classic Collection was a trainwreck in terms of technical performance with explosive

01:33audio spikes, visual glitches, and abysmal online connectivity.

01:37Oh, and did we mention the game only launched with three servers?

01:41You could say this collection was botched in the most irresponsible manner imaginable,

01:45and so many folks were infuriated that you'd be lucky to find even one server halfway filled

01:50with players.

01:51Really, the outrage against this was far greater than the noise we saw with Star Wars Outlaws.

02:018.

02:02Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash

02:08For the most part, Bandai Namco's 3D arena brawlers have been decent cookie cutter games

02:13for various IPs, although some reached their breaking point with Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash.

02:19With its basic button mashing and lack of any substantial mechanics for its combat,

02:23Cursed Clash felt like Bandai Namco only made the game to cash in on Jujutsu Kaisen's

02:28popularity.

02:29There was simply nothing here that made the game stand out aside from its license, not

02:33its level design, not its controls or gimmicks, not even its own UI.

02:38Some gamers are even discussing whether or not Bandai Namco has an unfair monopoly on

02:43licensed games based on anime while demanding the company start investing in these properties

02:48properly.

02:537.

02:54Multiverses

02:55At one point, Multiverses did seem like a worthy competitor to take over the hole left

03:06behind by Smash Bros. Ultimate.

03:08Alas, the full version 1.0 launch could not have gone any more terribly as it did in May

03:142024.

03:15Not only did the gameplay drastically slow down with some characters getting smaller

03:18movesets, Multiverses was even more egregious with monetization than it was during the beta.

03:24Players were really expected to fork over 10 bucks for Tom and Jerry or 15 for the Joker?

03:29You're kidding, right?

03:376.

03:41Alone in the Dark

03:42After having been tormented through two reboots, Alone in the Dark returns with a third, but

03:51under a new owner, THQ Nordic.

03:54And as expected, it was anything but decent.

03:57Developed by Pieces Interactive, Alone in the Dark had ambition in modernizing the IP

04:01in a new era of survival horror, yet seemed to forget how to be a compelling game to begin

04:07with.

04:08Distant tones, uninteresting characters, flat performances, clunky controls, and awkward

04:13combat all made this revival less than stellar.

04:16Pieces Interactive was closed less than three months after the game launched, and now, everyone

04:21is left wondering why Alone in the Dark should ever come back again.

04:285.

04:36South Park Snow Day

04:43After two stellar games like The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, one would

04:47hope a third game would turn out just as amazing.

04:50Unfortunately, that was not the case.

04:52South Park Snow Day made us wish we were in school as it turned out to be one of the most

04:56boring multiplayer focus games we've played all year.

05:00Between the constant interruption of gimmicks mid-combat and the game's extremely short

05:04length, Snow Day was reminiscent of the first South Park games from the 90s and 2000s in

05:10the worst ways possible.

05:11Even at $30, this game is not worth your hard-earned cash.

05:184.

05:21Dustborn

05:26Video games do sometimes get political, as do most forms of entertainment, but get overt

05:31or even preachy with your message, and that's what will draw you extreme ire from players.

05:37Dustborn was lame in every aspect you'd expect from a video game.

05:41Gameplay boils down to wandering around hallways and talking to characters about feelings and

05:45unmitigated emotions.

05:47The story is inconsistent in tone throughout and hits its own messages over your head with

05:51a five-ton sledgehammer.

05:53And for a game themed around garage band music, one would hope the songs would be decent.

05:58Alas, no.

06:00Although some outlets claim Dustborn sold just fine, a low player count on Steam suggests

06:05otherwise.

06:093.

06:13Suicide Squad Killed The Justice League

06:21When you have a studio like Rocksteady that specializes in single-player superhero games,

06:25what do you suppose their next game should be?

06:27Well, according to Warner Bros., it should be a live-service online multiplayer game.

06:32Despite having a pretty solid story and combat, Suicide Squad Killed The Justice League suffered

06:37greatly in having an eyesore of a UI, a convoluted economy, and a mundane endgame cycle.

06:43And above all, a lazy ending that only served to somehow justify the game's live-service

06:48aspect.

06:49Killed The Justice League wound up costing Warner Bros. $200 million in losses, and even

06:53after suffering from this, the corporation is still insistent on its live-service agenda

06:58with future titles.

07:022.

07:05Skull & Bones When it was first revealed at E3 2018, there

07:15was something about Skull & Bones that seemed promising.

07:18But after suffering several delays and even an entire restart on the project, what hope

07:23was there in this game turning out decent?

07:25We'll admit that Skull & Bones was one of the most technically sound launches Ubisoft

07:29has ever seen.

07:31However, the bare-bones open world and insanely basic combat left much to be desired.

07:36With Ubisoft deeming it a quadruple-A game, this immediately made Skull & Bones, as well

07:41as Ubisoft, the laughingstock of the gaming community throughout 2024.

07:46And yet, they didn't suffer as badly as our final entry.

08:111.

08:12Concord 2024 was loaded with some embarrassing video

08:20games, but none crashed and burned in such a devastating blaze of glory as Sony did with

08:25Concord.

08:26What was supposed to be Sony's first foray into the hero-shooter genre turned itself

08:30into a self-inflicted $400 million humiliation.

08:34Players were simply not impressed with the game in any way, as players lacked any creative

08:39visual designs or personality.

08:41It received so much hate and apathy that Sony pulled the game from their storefront without

08:45warning less than two weeks after launch.

08:48The developer Firewalk Studios was shut down in October 2024.

08:52And as for Concord, this will forever be the IP Sony will never want brought up ever again.

08:58Not even for a joke.

09:04Did you try out any of these games for yourself before the internet set them ablaze?

09:08Share with us in the comments below!

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