Unpopular opinion (don’t shoot me). Back in 2008, my dad took me to Gamestop on the corner of Hollywood and Vine to buy this new game everybody was raving about. When I fished out the last available copy – it was sold out everywhere – the guy behind the counter explained, with hypnotic wonder, the expansive, life altering experience on which I was about to embark. Trembling with anticipation, we raced home so I could inject it into my, relatively new, PS3.
The console turned on, and the words Fallout 3 flashed before me on the screen. I played this game for about eight hours straight, before I soberly realised that I’d never been so bored and utterly confused in my entire life.
I returned it the next day, and the incredulous Gamestop clerk bemoaned “You didn’t even give it a chance!” Still, to this day, when I recite this experience to people, they look at me as if I just shouted complete blasphemy. The reputable gaming website IGN, gave the game a 9.6/10, and the new TV show has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. I clearly didn’t get it. Oh, well.
It’s a good thing then, for everyone else, that I am not compiling a list of the world’s worst video games, which has instead been done by World of Card Games. The website analysed the number of positive and negative reviews of the current top 100 games on Steam, has determined which games have failed to meet player expectations. The data was then used to rank the games by the percentage of negative reviews they received.
So which game ranked as the worst of all time? Overwatch 2, a first person shooter released by Blizzard entertainment, the masterminds behind Warcraft. With a rating of 2/10 on Steam, still, the game has an 8/10 on IGN. But, as we all know, the audience and the professional critics are two very separate entities.
See the full rankings below.
| Rank | Game | Number of negative reviews | Percentage of negative reviews |
| 1 | Overwatch 2 | 225,876 | 80.9% |
| 2 | Battlefield 2042 | 149,718 | 55.8% |
| 3 | The First Descendant | 25,132 | 46.8% |
| 4 | EA SPORTS FC 24 | 39,302 | 43.8% |
| 5 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III | 247,163 | 41.7% |
| 6 | PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS | 990,693 | 41.4% |
| 7 | F1 24 | 1,196 | 37.8% |
| 8 | War Thunder | 237,550 | 36.8% |
| 9 | Once Human | 7,040 | 35.0% |
| 10 | Total War: WARHAMMER III | 33,441 | 32.0% |
It should come as no surprise that an EA Sports vehicle made the list as, despite pumping out annual editions of each and every sporting game, fans continuously complain that each new edition is merely last year’s game with an updated date slapped on the cover. But hey, EA Sports can cry all the way to the bank, because we keep buying them.
But what about the least disappointing video games? That doesn’t necessarily mean the best, but simply ones that far exceeded expectations.
Number one on the list? Stardew Valley, with 98.3% of the game’s reviews being positive. If, like me, you’ve never heard of that game either, check out the clip below for some insight.
Check out the entire list of least disappointing games below.
| Rank | Game | Number of positive reviews | Percentage of positive reviews |
| 1 | Stardew Valley | 718,934 | 98.3% |
| 2 | RimWorld | 186,008 | 98.0% |
| 3 | Resident Evil 4 | 138,110 | 97.6% |
| 4 | Lethal Company | 401,769 | 97.41% |
| 5 | Euro Truck Simulator 2 | 759,208 | 97.39% |
| 6 | DAVE THE DIVER | 102,209 | 97.3% |
| 7 | Deep Rock Galactic | 292,524 | 97.2% |
| 8 | Satisfactory | 158,895 | 97.0% |
| 9 | Subnautica | 267,141 | 96.9% |
| 10 | American Truck Simulator | 150,978 | 96.8% |
Perhaps most curious on the list is American Truck Simulator which, assuming it is what it sounds like, sounds either awesome or mind numbingly dull. But despite coming in at number ten, it boasts a 10/10 on Steam, and according to the YouTube video below, “It hits different.”
One thing that seems for certain (and yes, on this one I am definitely part of the consensus) is that Grand Theft Auto 6 is building up to be the cultural event of the decade. After all, we all know the impact Grand Theft Auto 5 had. Is it possible for Rockstar to improve on the phenomenon that the last installment had? We’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, stay away from Overwatch 2.
