Malf on 30/5/2019 at 09:35
So this idea hit me the other day while I was checking to see what the worst rated games on Steam currently are.
Do you own any of the games rated "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam, and if so, have you played any of them?
If you own one or more but haven't played them, I challenge you to play one!
So to find the worst rated games on Steam:
1: Click the magnifying glass icon next to the search box on the store page. This opens an unfiltered list of all games on Steam.
2: From the Sort By drop-down menu, choose User Reviews
3: At the bottom of the list, click the very last page. You'll see the orangey-red thumbs-down icon displayed next to games. Somewhat surprisingly, there are only about 4 games rated Overwhelmingly Negative, but 2-3 pages of games with thumbs-down icons, and the icons start appearing on page 1640 (as of the time of writing).
There'll be some DLCs listed, so for the purpose of this exercise, ignore those, but otherwise you should be left with the following games:
(N): Negative (VN): Very Newgative (ON): OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE
My First Music Workshop (N)
Art of Murder - The Secret Files (N)
AXE:SURVIVAL (N)
Gun Range VR (N)
Escape from here (N)
Space Launch Engineer (N)
Lucky Night: Poker Games (N)
Aware (N)
Raycatcher (N)
Bunker 58 (N)
Fading Visage (N)
Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign HD - Director's Cut Edition (N)
Last Defense (N)
Heroes in the Sky-Origin (N)
Horse Racing 2016 (N)
Fray: Reloaded Edition (N)
Love is Blind: Mutants (VN)
Abandoned Knight (VN)
Pro Rugby Manager 2015 (VN)
Farming Giant (VN)
World Truck Racing (VN)
Epic Space® (VN)
28 Waves Later (VN)
World Ship Simulator (VN)
LEFT ALIVE™ (VN)
Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown (VN)
Vigil: Blood Bitterness™ (VN)
Pro Gamer Manager 2 (VN)
Airline Tycoon 2: Gold (also Airline Tycoon 2 standard addition appears further down the list, so rolling it in here) (VN)
Godus Wars (VN)
Z.I.O.N (VN)
The Tower (VN)
Professional Farmer 2017 (VN)
World Of Leaders (VN)
Patterns (VN)
VERGE:Lost Chapter (VN)
Airport Simulator 2019 (VN)
Age of Survival (VN)
Citadels (VN)
Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming (VN)
Front Page Sports Football (VN)
World Basketball Tycoon (VN)
Towtruck Simulator 2015 (VN) (come on, you KNOW henke has this!)
Game Tycoon 1.5 (VN)
Skyscraper Simulator (VN)
Construction Machines 2014 (VN)
Race to Mars (VN)
Jurassic Island: The Dinosaur Zoo (VN)
Spacebase DF-9 (ON)
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (ON)
Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction (ON)
Airport Simulator 2014 (ON)
reizak on 30/5/2019 at 10:00
Strange, for me there are only six Overwhelmingly Negative things listed, everything else is Very Negative. Civilization VI - Vikings Scenario Pack is the only Overwhelming thing I own, and I didn't even know I owned Civ 6! I do have Godus Wars so maybe I'll try that later. The comments indicate that the low score might not be indicative of the quality of the game as much as people being annoyed at Molyneux. Anyway, fun idea, wish I had more terrible games!
Malf on 30/5/2019 at 10:19
Ah, my mistake, I was assuming everything with the thumbs down icon was Overwhelmingly Negative. Even so, I'd be interested to hear opinions on anything with the thumbs-down icon.
So to put my money where my mouth is, of that list I own Spacebase DF-9 and Godus Wars.
Both have essentially never being finished.
Of the 2, I have played Spacebase DF-9. I did play a bit of vanilla Godus, but have never been inclined to play Godus Wars.
Spacebase DF-9 showed promise, and I was looking forward to a cross between Dwarf Fortress and Startopia, but it got abandoned by Double Fine, so no-one ever got a chance to play an unfinished version. I may re-install it when I get home to see if it's actually bad or simply unfinished.
But even unfinished, I wouldn't say it's the worst game I've ever played. That accolade goes to either S.W.A.T, a £1.99 game I picked up for the Spectrum way back when, or Postal 3, which I'm surprised to see hasn't made the list.
demagogue on 30/5/2019 at 11:58
Can I propose another small addition to the thread, on top of what the OP is asking for?
I think it'd be fun if people played their lowest rated game and gave a little review or commentary of it.
And they can find their lowest rated game by following Malf's instructions, moving up page by page until you see the first game that has the little icon indicating that you own the game.
That way everybody can play along.
The absolute "worst" games I've played would be glitched fan made missions or some Itch games, something that definitely wouldn't make the cut for Steam.
Some of them were pretty amazing as bad games though, like the way Big Rigs is.
Anyway, I'll have to come back to this thread over the weekend to follow my own advice.
Nameless Voice on 30/5/2019 at 12:17
A better way is to go to (
https://steamdb.info), log in, click on "Products" on the left-hand side, and sort your library by rating.
The lowest-rated thing I have is still Twin Sector. It was... eh. Not
that awful, but fairly unmemorable.
Next one after that is Dawn of War III, and that one well deserves its low rating.
icemann on 30/5/2019 at 20:45
The only one I have from that list is C&C 4. A spot well deserved on the list.
Malf on 30/5/2019 at 21:21
Is it really that bad? I thought even the worst C&C game would have some redeeming qualities?
Tomi on 30/5/2019 at 22:18
No, it can't be that bad, it seems to have gotten fairly good reviews elsewhere. Probably just C&C fan boys and girls being overly dramatic and silly with their zero point "reviews".
Quote Posted by "'ChristianP.' on Metacritic"
This is the worse game EVER!!! I thought red alert 3 was garage i stand corrected muliplayer sucks you play caputuring these control nods and first team to get to 2500 points wins... theres no room name changing theres no teams nod and gdi together.. there is no merging.. doesnt make any sense then game is about merging together as one but on muliplayer your seperated this is garbage i wish i can sell my digtial copy for 5 bucks too many bugs dont buy stay away another game EA messed up i hate EA.
That's why I don't usually pay too much attention to user reviews of sequels in "beloved" franchises, and there are a lot of other examples like that on Metacritic. Proper game critics might be annoyingly pretentious at times, but at least they don't usually let their emotions and zeal cloud their thinking this much.
henke on 30/5/2019 at 22:36
Quote Posted by Malf
Towtruck Simulator 2015 (VN) (come on, you KNOW henke has this!)
As I was looking through the list I certainly did perk up on reading the words "towtruck simulator", but no, not even I've picked up this one. Judging from reviews it has BAD TOW TRUCK PHYSICS, which is a big no-no for me. :nono:
icemann on 31/5/2019 at 01:39
Quote Posted by Tomi
No, it can't be that bad, it seems to have gotten fairly good reviews elsewhere. Probably just C&C fan boys and girls being overly dramatic and silly with their zero point "reviews".
This is what we get when people don't do their research.
For the record, the game is hated as it ditches all of the gameplay standards from all other games (in the RTS vein of C&C). The game was intended to be a completely different game entirely but had the C&C name and FMVs thrown in at the last minute.
Building up a base - Gone
Resource collection - Gone
UI - Completely different to all other games in the series.
Gameplay feel - Completely different
Replaced with a game where you travel around in a mobile base where you have to pick the class that it will be at that moment in time. This determines what you can build. It has nothing in common with all prior games in the series. So that's not fans being overly dramatic. They COMPLETELY changed the gameplay. It failed due to that. I'd suggest doing your research next time. Games in established franchise live or die based on making good games. C&C 4 is a terrible game. Hell even if it wasn't a C&C game (which it never should have been) it would still be terrible. Don't believe me? Go play it then. We shall be waiting.