Least Popular Game Played Per Year 1990-2023

Shamelessly ripped off from Tangysphere's and ZapRowsDower's lists

Qix
Qix
Pretty good puzzle game
Yoshi
Yoshi
Yoshi
Fatal Fury 2
Fatal Fury 2
Part of a bunch of japanese game boy games I bought from a guy on ebay once
Surgical Strike
Surgical Strike
FMV game I watched on VC with friends
Dennis Miller: That's News to Me
Dennis Miller: That's News to Me
same as previous
Wirehead
Wirehead
also VC
Yoshi no Panepon
Yoshi no Panepon
Another japanese import
Imperialism
Imperialism
An old gem of a strategy management game, check it out
Hardwar
Hardwar
I was filtered tbh, the controls seem to be made for you to use a joystick which I do not have, its either slow cumbersome keyboard controls or inverted mouselook which cannot be changed, I just couldn't adapt to that type of shit
Outcast
Outcast
Its got the jank and sincerity, but its too boring to play to make it worth the while imo
Pawapuro-kun Pocket 2
Pawapuro-kun Pocket 2
Another japanese import
Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival
Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival
GBA game I inherited
Prince of Qin
Prince of Qin
Diablo style game set in the qin dynasty, its cool but it wasn't really my thing
Jak II
Jak II
Played as a kid
Seal of Evil
Seal of Evil
Like Prince of Qin
Sega Classics Collection
Sega Classics Collection
Self explanatory
Tenchu: Dark Secret
Tenchu: Dark Secret
Shitty DS stealth game
Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
Surprisingly fun Card Game
Cooking Guide: Can't Decide what to Eat?
Cooking Guide: Can't Decide what to Eat?
Yeah
Grepolis
Grepolis
Addicted to this shit when I was like 14
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Shit
Duke Nukem: Critical Mass
Duke Nukem: Critical Mass
Awful
Capsule
Capsule
Its cool, it inspired "In Other Waters" but I find it a bit stressful (intentionally so, obviously, but by the 5th mission or so I found it too frustrating to bother with)
4-Lung Boy
4-Lung Boy
Cool little adv game
European War 4: Napoleon
European War 4: Napoleon
Addicted to this game in high school, it aint great and its grindtastic to encourage microtransactions, but its not hard to beat free so I never needed to.
Istanbul, Texas
Istanbul, Texas
Just go and play it, its short and free
Card Detective
Card Detective
Meh
Star Explorers
Star Explorers
Solo dev no man's sky/elite, scrappy charm, if inelegant
Manna for our Malices
Manna for our Malices
An interesting Yuri VN
Sapphire Lung
Sapphire Lung
Cool interactive fiction story about a fictional disease affecting miners
Sumerians
Sumerians
Wanted to like it, but beyond the setting I find it boring
Just-A-Crush
Just-A-Crush
Random BL novel I found on itch idk
A Butterfly's Dream
A Butterfly's Dream
Based on a famous chinese poem, pretty
Daily Thread: The Sewing of Discontent
Daily Thread: The Sewing of Discontent
Its a stressful seamstress simulator, sounds silly but its surprisingly sharp

3 Comments


4 months ago

Just a casual alliteration bomb on the final entry there

4 months ago

"A Butterfly's Dream: Be a Butterfly in this beautiful and relaxing game with no goals or enemies. Based on a Zen tale."

I'm sorry, I'll never buy this game, so there is no other place for me to rant, but

Apparently, this is the description on the Steam page, which means it was put up there by the devs. And like, are they willfully ignorant? A butterfly's dream is a parable from the book of Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher of the Daoist tradition that lived in the Warring States period. Zen Buddhism wouldn't originate for another several hundreds of years after. Yet another example of Western commodification of Eastern philosophies and terminology. "Just call it Zen because it's Eastern and sounds relaxing." Disgusting.

4 months ago

@thealexmott Hehe, glad someone noticed that
@molochthagod Yeah, its a depressingly common attitude


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