fascinating bad games
storing every example of games that are fascinating for unintended badness reasons
either hidden gems that are wack as hell or abysmal experiences, the only real criterion for this list is that they're fun to watch
either hidden gems that are wack as hell or abysmal experiences, the only real criterion for this list is that they're fun to watch
60 Games
It's YIIK! The ultimate riff game that unfortunately is profoundly unpleasant to actually play. They've been rewriting and reworking this game for years now and I'm not sure it's ever going to be enough to save the worst writing in games
The entire banban series, really. A strangely genuine series of unity cash grabs that takes itself seriously while playing like glue and having an incomprehensible plot
Obligatory mandalore entry
Obligatory mandalore entry
Obligatory mandalore entry
A steam asset flip with MGS4 length cutscenes about how amazing the turkish government is
Obligatory mandalore entry
A weird Unity game made as a shitpost that's notable for being actually kinda funny
Obligatory mandalore entry
A ps2 game whose first entry was never localized, the sniper 2 is a series of cutscenes strung together by the most basic sniping segments you could imagine, but those cutscenes are something magical
TinyBuild's mascot and one of the genuine worst games I've ever played. It's like if catwoman was the DC mascot
Obligatory mandalore entry
A shovelware title from 2002 magically airdropped into the current year
A misguided at best cash grab attempting to squeeze as much money out of a license that's long run out of source material to milk
A game so sorry at its own existence it feels like it's going to break down and cry. Red barrels have a QTE to shoot them instead of actually aiming at them.
A game made by a sex pest who is incredibly proud of the one joke he's been riding for his entire career, what if there was an annoying guy
I love this game. It's a piece of shit. It's so of its time that I can't help but smile whenever I see its attempts at biting satire like a kid bringing you a crayon drawing. Postal 2 is the natural endpoint of early 2000s comedy mixed with a surprisingly good fps.
Any MDickie game goes here tbh. This is the most notable but they're all lovely.
The final boss of weird russian FPS games. Notable for being surprisingly playable
"A pikachu's head is impaled upon the spike, loot the body?"
A game that feels like a forgotten MKUltra experiment. If Polybius was real this would be what's on it
A game about ancient conspiracies by someone who would later go on to kill his wife and himself. It feels about like that to play
This game's pathos is so misplaced, its emotion so horribly wrong that it feels like something alien. It can be funny to laugh at but it's also a game about how maybe we should let 50 year olds date kids so
There are two games where 50 cent is a badass shooter protagonist. Each one is a treat.
From the group that brought you any number of civilian massacres comes Blackwater the video game. Experience a day in the life of one of history's greatest faceless monsters and mow down just about everything that moves
a game about being a super cool soldier badass guy
I don't think tinybuild know what games are
This is a Wii game adaptation of the original Ju-On. Experience the true horror of motion controls combined with japanese horror so low res it looks straight off a utah teapot opengl demo
I dont think I need to explain why this is here
A fully ai generated "interactive" tv series. It's like a markov chain of scenes that vaguely make sense when strung along until you think about them for a few seconds. Someone should archive this shit for the IA now because this site is not lasting till 2025
I am told that deadly premonition is also a good candidate but IMO that game is genuinely good. This on the other hand is an insane telltale type game from the same guy about a man whose wife's last word was D so he hunts down everything with the letter D in it using his time travel power. Do not expect the game to end, it only got two episodes and ends on a cliffhanger without any semblance of resolution. It's absolutely a joy to play, though, the unnecessary game-ification of it is such a joy
A game about ghost hunting that takes a hard turn into being a game about finding jesus.
agent 47 as a 6 year old wildin out
You know those "games" you'd make in 4th grade that were just text adventures of whatever you were thinking of at the time that barely worked? Yeah imagine that with ms paint visuals.
It's very hard to describe exactly how bad this game feels to play. Videos don't do it justice. Just a baffling example of a game where almost every decision was driven by a creative force that was just wrong about everything.
What if we released a Street Fighter 2 knockoff but we mocapped all our friends into it as the fighters?
One of Suda 51's lesser appreciated games, probably because it's not very good. This game is a barmy take on The Mist with a nonexistent budget and top of the line voice acting.
Not so much notable for the game itself as the story around it. One of the usual promised Mass Effect tier space operas from this generation ala Advent Rising except this time it kept getting rescoped bigger and bigger until the devteam finally shat this out. Also it's one of the few games that's technically banned in the US because the devs stole code and were ordered to destroy all copies. Woops.
this game about drinking expired milk and dying won the IGF grand prize in 2002
Abysmal Max Payne knockoff from 2003 that's as 2003 as you can possibly get.
I was thinking about putting Metal Wolf Chaos on this list but I'm told it plays pretty well and a game that's campy but solid doesn't deserve the spot. This game plays like glue and the presentation reminds me of Shogo in that it's weebshit straight out of a How to Draw Anime For Noobs book.
Maybe an obvious choice but it absolutely deserves to be here. A shitty half life fanfic given Valve's official blessing because Gabe Newell couldn't give less of a fuck about what goes up on steam anymore. I hear they've taken president keemstar out which is sad.
this is not a game that is out at time of writing, i'm using this game because the actual game isn't in the database for some reason.
ESCAPE FROM DETROIT: A blatant knockoff of LISA but written by a 12 year old in the year 2018. Traces sprites outright (badly) and is fucking hilariously edgy. You know how hard it is to make something comically edgy when you're aping LISA? This game manages it.
ESCAPE FROM DETROIT: A blatant knockoff of LISA but written by a 12 year old in the year 2018. Traces sprites outright (badly) and is fucking hilariously edgy. You know how hard it is to make something comically edgy when you're aping LISA? This game manages it.
This game feels like it was made by the kid at your high school who tried to convince you he was a vampire.
This is really the quintessential shock game because it has a really funny story to go with it. If you don't know, this game was made to "prove the FBI's story" on the JFK assassination by letting players remake the assassination but it was purposefully made impossible to do in the game. Is it impossible in real life? I don't know but making a whole game to ownzone the feds is funny.
This game is a completely fucking unhinged VN about cute furries getting their brains fried by dark magic. I did not like this game when I played it initially, and I haven't replayed to change that, but I won't deny that it's very fucking memorable. I put up with not liking the sense of humor because I wanted to see what the fuck was going to happen. Lead paint game.
The forgotten game made by the Hotel Mario and Zelda CDI animators, you may recognize this from YTPs. By virtue of not being a CDI game, it is by far the most playable game the devs ever worked on.
All Phoenix Games both don't and do belong on this list. Don't because they are not games they are dvds sold in game packaging with a few recycled minigames to technically not be false advertising. Do because they are undoubtedly fascinating and fucking hilarious piles of shit.
Again, this is a placeholder for the actual entry because it's not in the database. Sorry Roy.
FIRE EMBLEM: DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS: OSTIAN PRINCESS: A bizarre, terribly translated self insert romhack pseudo sequel to the original Binding Blade. Witness Batty the Bitch in all his glory.
FIRE EMBLEM: DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS: OSTIAN PRINCESS: A bizarre, terribly translated self insert romhack pseudo sequel to the original Binding Blade. Witness Batty the Bitch in all his glory.
What happens when a Japanese comedian who hates video games makes a video game as a gag? This happens! It's funny, genuinely good bit. Don't try to play it.
Another Christian game, this time about animals being forced to race because Noah's Ark or something. Probably low hanging fruit, every AVGN copy made a video about this game way back when, but it's still a lovely little slice of cheese.
A marketer walks into a boardroom and says "sex sells let's make wii party for people who get boners and jack off" and sends a chain reaction of developers working 70 hour weeks down the company line until a trucker delivers a shipment of We Dare to an EB Games.
Does your dipshit kid want to play Tetris but they're too stupid to chain T spins? How about Kids' Tetris, where you only have 1x2 tetrominoes in one mode and get a fucking seizure because the GUI keeps flickering.
The back of this game's box says "If Quentin Tarantino made a game it would be Hopkins FBI." This game is a point and click adventure game.
An ambassador for all the weird shitpost projects Steam Greenlight gave us. Nowadays this genre is extinct because if you want to make a trading card scam you don't even need to be funny with Steam Direct
An FMV horror series about cannibalism and ...something? Notable for the first game requiring you to beat it in two hours with no save function. Also the first game was supposed to be here instead but you can't exactly search for "D" on this site.
One of the original romhacks-that-get-turned-into-bootlegs games, Pokemon Quartz is a bad romhack of Gen 3 with a whole new roster of pokemon that look like sperm. It's not as bad as Pokemon Snakewood but it is pretty bad.
A standard japanese shmup, except all the enemies are hunky boys and they flex at you and turn into flesh abominations. Not actually bad to play, just odd.
A game made by a man so dedicated to have his masterpiece on a nintendo console he did a hunger strike, got banned from conventions for threatening nintendo employees, and more! It's out now, and it's mid.
Parallax_M
5 months ago