The Many Scandals of Steam's Worst Games

well there you go that's them I'm not

going to clickbait this you won't even

have to pause the video because I'll

keep them up there for a minute these

are the games that as determined by the

website steam 250. have the worst ratio

of disliked to liked reviews along with

a little bit of

math what's most interesting to me

however is that every single one of

these drew the eye of the PC Master race

for completely different reasons and

even the stories I thought I knew were

actually only a fraction of the real

issue take for example Roller Coaster

Tycoon World currently sitting at spot

number 10 on the list with a 75%

negative rating Roller Coaster Tycoon

world is the tragic tale of a publisher

desperate to mil a franchise long after

the man who made it special had moved on

saying the words Roller Coaster Tycoon

is like casting a spell that sends a

2000's kid back in time to Win computer

monitors ears and could kill a man when

dropped from a second story balcony

Roller Coaster Tycoon was from that

golden age of simulation games where you

could slap the word Sim on the front of

anything and it was an instant hit Sim

City Sim Tower Sim

on this list isn't actually as long as I

thought it would be of course your other

option was to slap Tycoon on the end of

a word and out of all of these Roller

Coaster Tycoon Reigns Supreme the first

ICT game was developed entirely an

assembly by just one man legendary

programmer Chris Sawyer the upside toour

language like assembly is that programs

such as say a roller coaster management

simulator will run exceptionally well on

even the shittiest family PC no matter

how many cool Internet Explorer search

bars you install that accessibility

along with the game being bundled and

frozen pizza boxes Scholastic book fears

and you know just being a fun game saw

it explo and popularity Chris and his

team of artists Simon Foster and

composer alist brimble would go on to

create Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 the game

which Chris says fulfilled his personal

vision for Roller Coaster Tycoon you see

Chris Reed's like a true artist to me

one that isn't content to endlessly milk

easy sequels for money but one that

moves on when he feels he's done all he

can do with a concept although earning

$30 million does give you the flex

ability to do things like that of course

just because the autter involved with a

franchise is finished with it doesn't

mean the ravenous capitalistic

conglomerate who publishes it is and

here's where the milk from our cash cow

starts to turn

sour the development of roller coaster

tyon 3 was passed off to Frontier

development and while it hasn't aged as

well as two it was and is still a

well-received Game Chris soer would act

as a consultant for three which was the

last time he would be involved involved

with any future release in the series

following Chris's departure the series

took a steep dive like a roller roll

like roller

coaster 8 years after Roller Coaster

Tycoon 3 a 3DS game titled Roller

Coaster Tycoon 3D was released which is

neither the third game in the series nor

the first 3D roller coaster tycoon game

though I suppose Super Mario 64 isn't

the 64th one either Roller Coaster

Tycoon 3D was hot but it wasn't nearly

as poorly received as the next

game Roller Coaster Tycoon

4 mobile yes the fourth official roller

coaster tycoon game was a direct to

mobile game from that particularly awful

era of mobile gaming where companies

with big IPS realized you could just

print money from making lazy micro

transaction riddled slop like The

Simpsons tapped out or Family Guy The

Quest for Stuff sure guys irreverent and

satirical all you want you're still a

2014 premium game it should be noted

that Chris Sawyer absolutely despises

microtransactions and mobile games I

have a personal disgust for any game

which deliberately tries to hook players

into feeling they have to pay something

extra to continue playing or to take

shortcuts but it's a proven and

successful income model for some reason

people don't like to see their childhood

Nostalgia coated in piss and then rung

out on their doorstep so to Plate The

Gamers who are hoping for you know an

actual game publisher Atari announced a

new PC game as well Roller Coaster

Tycoon world this would end up being

worse than well just doing nothing

honestly the announcement trailer

received uh less than favorable

Impressions from both fans and gaming

media alike these ranged from Tech full

such as Roller Coaster Tycoon world's

game pay trailer Is tragically bad to

possibly the funniest title I've ever

seen for a news article now this has to

be one of the worst trailers I've seen

for a game it opens with real footage

from a real roller coaster which baits

you into thinking maybe this is a

cinematic trailer or better yet these

are in-game Graphics but after some very

dodgy motion-tracked text it awkwardly

transitions into actual gameplay so

bluntly that the genitors will be saw

dusting your vomit and note on here

we're finally treated to the real

graphics and it's

not good it's ugly in fact the colors

are ass the lighting sucks half of the

shots have shadows and the other half

don't as though they were trying to show

off what this game would look like with

the settings turned to low in case

you're wondering I know this was almost

10 years ago at this point but that

doesn't mean [ __ ] The Witcher 3

bloodborne Arkham Knight all 2015 games

all still looking great today sure these

were all different genres with larger

budgets so a fe comparison might be City

sky lines which dropped a few days after

this trailer and looks infinitely better

despite having to render an entire city

and not just a single theme park the

trailer also has that shitty Cherry

hipster Kickstarter music that was

endemic at the time this isn't

surprising because despite being

published by Atari it feels like the

sort of Kickstarter game that would play

off Nostalgia to deliver a Half Baked

Early Access mess that captures none of

the spirit of the original Atari swap

Developers way through development for

reasons they've never disclosed then

swapped developers a second time for

more reasons they've never disclosed

which is always a good sign these Nine

Circles of development help pushed the

game's release from early 2015 to

December of 2015 after a beta weekend in

October of 2015 the feedback which I

can't imagine was good prompted them to

delay the game a second time until early

2016 in March of 2016 the game slopped

out into Early Access which was the

2010's way of saying we've already spent

too much bloody money on this thing but

we can't afford to delay it anymore

along with a dash of you can't critique

it yet because it's not done after being

universally mocked for several months

Atari announced that it would officially

leave early access on November 16th 2016

one day before the release of rival Park

management Sim Planet coaster which was

was you know a good game like an exiled

Prince coming to Dethrone their

tyrannical father Planet coaster was

also developed by the exact same company

that made Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 so the

trailer was bad but that thing came out

2 years before the game was even

released and Early Access is essentially

like the game's beta so maybe the final

release ended up being half

decent let's take a look at those

reviews bad simulation bad frame rate

bad Graphics bad communication from the

developer poor future plans poor bug

fixes poor coding poor attempt at

pleasing everyone poor attempt at

keeping what an RCT game even is poor

game life it's had due to having three

separate developers well they don't

mention the music at least so maybe

that's okay the game only has one song

and six variations which are not that

great either okay never mind the reason

I included all that Preamble about

Roller Coaster Tycoon history is because

it's to realize just how much Atari

botched this beloved franchise a

franchise encased in rockard Nostalgia

like a mosquito and cased and Amber

don't forget Chris Sawyer programmed two

vastly Superior versions of this game

out of glue and spaghetti sauce by

himself with only a talented artist and

composer to help with visuals and audio

which is quite a lot actually almost

every review in some way or another it

says you should just buy Planet coaster

instead I don't know if Atari was hoping

hoping to Edge out Planet Coaster by

just releasing a day earlier as though

the audience was so ravenous for a theme

park simulator that they'd be willing to

settle for a boring ugly mess instead of

waiting one day maybe they thought game

development's like a race and whoever

gets their one out first as the winner

clearly they forgot the legendary quote

from shiru mamoto designer and director

of 1982's Popeye a bad roller coaster

tycoon game will be bad for a very long

time maybe a year but a good game a

planet coaster Planet coaster game

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video sport games aren't my cup of tea

but for a huge portion of the population

they does

these games for many people are as deep

as they're willing to tip their

basketball shaped toes into the world of

gaming and there's nothing wrong with

that in theory unfortunately the

companies Behind these games know that

and so not only do they have no

incentive to make a better game they

actively designed hostile expensive

grind fests that would put a Korean

Teddy gutcher to shame and those at

least have some creamy rotundos for you

to enjoy unless you mod LeBron I suppose

D on the fact that t 2 has had

exclusivity deals with the NBA since as

early as

2011 and you've essentially got a

monopoly on an entire genre imagine if

Road of Warcraft was the only game that

was allowed to have elves and dwarves

and magic or fortnite was the only game

you were allowed to shoot a gun in or

Call of Duty was the only game you're

allowed to be called sure these examples

are a bit more extreme than the reality

Take 2 doesn't own the rights to the

game of basketball but if you're an NBA

fan the 2K series is the only place

you're a bble to play as the real

players and the real teams who you

actually give a [ __ ] about so when they

release a buggy broken mess of a game

that's closer to a credit card scam than

a piece of entertainment your options

are either play the game or play nothing

nothing so what is it about 2k 24 on

Steam that's especially offensive the

vast majority of it comes down to

slighting the ego of the PC Master race

in addition to the gameplay Scruples

we'll look at in a minute the PC version

of 2 is probably the worst PC version

I've ever seen of a game note that I

didn't say Port because a port at least

implies it's the same game the most

glaring issue off the bat is that 2K

24's steam release is the last gen

version of the game it used to be that

games would receive simultaneous release

of both last gen and nextg around the

time a new console generation came out

to bridge that gap before leaving last

gen behind to with it however nxgen

console supply shortages have seen games

like 2K received simultaneous last year

and nextg versions well into the current

generation's lifespan and for some

bizarre reason have decided that PC

couldn't handle the raw power of the PS5

and Xbox series

versions keep in mind that one of the

key features of PC gaming is that you're

able to achieve graphical quality

leagues above what was available on

Console so the game looks outdated but

it at least has all the same features as

a console

right yeah about that it'd probably be

quicker to just list the few features

the game actually has but here's a list

of everything that's missing no my

career story no Pro play animations

which is one of the major new features

of 2K 24 no City for my career no

crossplay with consoles can't select

what jerseys you play no accessories for

away games can't explore the locker room

on top of all this the PC scene for 2K

is dead a lot of sports games fans lean

on the Casual side of the spectrum and

casual gamers aren't really known for

dropping several thousand on a gaming PC

when they can just buy a PS5 and be done

with it so it's unsurprising that the PC

version doesn't receive the same love as

the console versions which begs a

question as to why they even bothered to

release it at all I mean it's money the

answer is money but humor me the PC

version is also so easy to hack and pump

your character stats that you're

practically forced to as you'll be

playing at a severe disadvantage against

everyone who does which is all of them

because the game's anti-che must just be

a text file that says don't forget add

an anti-che before shipping so if you're

willing to look past your outdated

feature stripped copy of a game that's

Community is 10 people who all cheat

you're greeted with a game that wants

all your money if you want your my

career character to be even remotely

viable you have to drop real money on

the game to buy the in-game currency VC

okay In fairness you can earn VC by

playing games except that you earn a

pathetic amount of it if you lose which

you will because your character needs

more currency to level up it's a

perfectly designed hamster wheel that

has only one clear way out of it paying

money or not playing it but let's be

real that's not

happening Mobile Suit Gundam battle

operation 2 is a game so exciting that

they felt the need to have the title be

in all caps but for the sake of your

ears I'll read it as though it has none

Mobile Suit gun battle operation 2 is a

free-to-play gcha game based on the

iconic Japanese anime franchise Gundam

it boasts a massive array of mobile

suits available to earn epic 6v6

multiplayer battles and a gcha model

that is supposedly very free-to-play

friendly the game is according to most

reviewers an incredibly fun multiplayer

experience that's everything they've

ever wanted from a Gundam game that they

can't recommend to anyone out of all of

the games on this list this one is the

most disappointing because it came so

close to being good but fell on its face

at the last hurdle being able to

actually play the damn thing games with

network issues have been a recurring

theme of the last few months with

overnight hits like hell divers 2 and

last Epoch Suffering From Success these

games were so popular that it exceeded

even their wildest estimations and it

wasn't long before all their server

pipes were clogged up and for their

reviews to do the same Mobile Suit gun

and B operation 2 suffers from a similar

albeit much stupider problem its net

code is so bad that you'll frequently

struggle to join a match to the point

that the words failed matchmaking will

be burnt into your monitor the leading

theory for this is that the game

utilizes peer-to-peer servers where

there isn't one Central server that the

game is hosted on and instead it's

hosted on each of the players computers

many games utilize this system but

battle operation 2 has such strict

requirements for player ping that

anything less than the best as aelony

and will result in you getting I'm sure

these ly requirements work great if say

both players are on a small island in

East Asia but not so much when you've

got two separate players on two separate

time zones this is frustrating on its

own but made roughly 900 billion times

worse by the second awful design

decision a penalty system let me read

you this

review Chad's going to read you this

review oh sure disconnecting from a

match once drops you from good standing

to caution and doing so again before

getting back up I I

or disconnecting from a match once drops

you from good standing to caution and

doing so again before getting back up to

good will drop you to penalty level one

this bans you from matchmaking for

several days stops you from getting most

afterm match Rewards or XP and makes it

so you can only lose ranking points when

playing ranked matches until you get

back to at least caution the only way to

climb the standings and get back to good

is by completing ranked matches it will

never go away on its own and take

several dozen matches to get back up to

good the Steam Reviews page consists

almost entirely of people recounting

their experience of receiving banss

ranging anywhere from 24 hours to a week

all for having the audacity to attempt

matchmaking 8 months after this game's

release the match making woes continue

to plague

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it space base df9 short for space Bas

didn't finish 9 is the perfect example

of the Early Access failure this one

really hurts to cover as double F find

is one of my favorite developers but

come on guys what the [ __ ] is this space

ghost was cooked up as part of Amnesia

fortnite 2012 a public game j/f

fundraising event by double find

Productions and the folks from Humble

Bundle anyone that PED in a dollar or

more could cast their vote for their

favorite prototype with the top five

being made into four games and given to

everyone who paid Bas Bas would receive

the second highest number of votes and

would go on to be released a year later

in October of

2013 an early access the game itself is

a town management simulator like

banished or Rim world except set on a

space station in space because it would

be weird if it was a space station in

Detroit that's about how much effort I'm

going to put into describe it because

well that's how much effort they put

into making it let's talk about Early

Access Early Access is a double-edged

sword but the problem with double-edged

swords is there's no Hilt so there's

nothing to hold on to and you just end

up hurting yourself some very successful

games have been made this way from

subnautica to Hades to borders Gate 3

and perhaps a little game you may have

heard of called Minecraft yes the cube

based groomer groomer is considered to

be one of the first Early Access games

by today's standards originally released

as an alpha version Notch sold access to

the game for a discounted rate of $15

with backers receiving all future

updates and the final version for free

well for $15 the funds from this allowed

him to quit his job and focus

development solely on Minecraft and the

rest is history so what features does

Early Access have that makes it more

enticing for developers over say

traditional releases Early Access allows

games to be tested as they're developed

which can help address glaring bugs or

design issues early on top of that you

can begin building a community before a

game is even released whose feedback can

help shape the future of the game by Far

and Away the biggest benefit is the

ability to generate Revenue while still

developing the game without having to

dip into your savings crowdfunding also

means they aren't beholden to the whims

of Publishers who might demand changes

to ensure a return on their investment

double fine in particular had an

exceptionally negative experience with

Publishers back When developing Brutal

Legend Brutal Legend was dropped by its

original publisher Activision when they

merged with blizzard only for the game

to get picked up by EA which is like

escaping IP's Island on a boat owned by

Jared

Fogle Activision then tried to block EA

from developing the game citing the

money that they had already invested in

its development I can't imagine Morale

on the project was very high knowing all

of your hard work could just get tossed

in a bin because some overpaid [ __ ]

in a suit through a hissy fit when space

Bas df9 released steam's early access

was still in its infancy only about a

year old at this point while the system

comes with all the benefits mentioned

before it also has a few of its own

drawbacks like any crowdfunding campaign

the community can easily be led on any

flaws in the game big or small are often

overlooked since they'll fix it later

even if the developers have no intention

to which leads to the second problem

there's no obligation for anyone to

actually finish An Early Access game if

the game doesn't do as well as they want

to they stub their toe in the way to

their computer and decide they don't

want to do it anymore they can just stop

if your purchase of the game lies

outside of steam's refund policy then

sorry you're just stuck with some broken

unfinished version of a game you paid

money for you big lemon you can probably

guess what happened to space based df9

then after sales of the game didn't meet

double find's expectations they could no

longer afford to keep developing it

although simply didn't have confidence

in its marketability anymore they

stubbed their toe on the way of their

computer etc etc the game was rushed out

of Early Access and despite being

released it is clearly far from finished

this wasn't helped by the official

website containing a list of every idea

they hoped to implement giving backers

an itemized list of what could have been

they even uploaded the game's source

code as if to say moders please finish

the game for us which they did not long

after space base's release 12 employees

including Project Lead JP Le Britain

were laid off from double fine

so some games are bad some games are

greedy and some games are just too weird

for their own

good this is one of those games orel's

Chasm is described as a religious

deprogramming tool which I suppose is

one way to stand out in a market that's

primarily about stuff like adventures

and excitement and fun if I was the

Angry Video Game no here say something

like oh you want to deprogram all right

deprogram your TV so you don't have to

look at the shitty game anymore ol Kass

is the second game by Indie Game Dev

valuer Dylan Barry Dylan began making

games after giving up on a floundering

music career but he was at least better

at that than game development as the

best part of these games is the music

his game de company is named rail slave

games which unless there's a reference

I'm missing is a pretty weird [ __ ]

thing to name your company Toni the new

game from Plantation Productions and Jim

Crow gaming my favorite Studios the game

is very conceptual and reads more like

an art project from someone with a

passing interest in video games which

turns out is exactly what it is Dylan

last played a few games in the 1980s and

then decades later saw indie game the

movie modern development tools and

resources allow indie game divs to make