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[nenjin]

Steam just allowed you to hide titles from your main game list, and I thought it'd be fun for people to post games that are so bad, so stupid, so regrettable that they've stuck them in a Steam Oubliette. Post your games, and maybe a small blurb about why they belong there.



Alan Wake - Insufferably over-written mystical mystery game with a flashlight and shadowy rednecks.

Aliens: Colonial Marines - Bought on day 1 because I like Aliens and I'm stupid. Couldn't even launch day-1 on a modern system. Not sure it's ever even been patched.

Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition - Because short of playing with someone else who couldn't or wouldn't buy the 4th and 5th rerelease of the fucking game, there's no reason for it to clog up my game menu next to the other standalone versions of the game. It's called a fucking expansion pack Cyanide, you fucking goobers.

Company of Heroes - Only here because they released a Steam version of the original title.

DUNGEONS: Steam Special Edition - A Dungeon Keeper wannabee that missed the mark so bad there is almost no chance of me ever re-installing it. Add to the fact I played hypeman for this game and lead other poor souls to waste their money, and I never want to see it again.

Impire - Along the same lines as Dungeons. Another Dungeon Keeper wannabee that both didn't understand what was fun about DK, and subsequently swung very wide of fun in its implementation.

The Kings' Crusade: A game I liked passably because it's based on the King Arthur the Roleplaying Wargame engine. Unfortunately, it had all the same problems, including crashing every 2 to 10 minutes under completely different circumstances each time.

M.U.D. TV - Some piece of shit I got for ordering Dungeons, which I will never play.

[gimlet]

Ha, I almost bought MUD TV for near full price, 'cause I freakin ***loved*** MAD TV.   Fortunately I read their forums first, it looked like they really botched it then abandoned it, much sadness

[Ozyton]

A lot of the games in my hidden list are games that I couldn't get into, will never really play/get time to play, or are betas for games that have been released by now which for whatever reason still show up in the list.

Then there's games like Takedown: Red Sabre...

[miauw62]

Mine contains probably just one:
Alliance of Valiant Arms: F2P, a shitty counter strike wannabe. Only installed because of a fancy tf2 knife, only heard that it installed rootkits to "prevent cheating" later.

Other than that, just a bunch of F2P games I installed because of friends.

[qazcake]

I dont have any of these... Well there is one. I picked up dead horde a while ago not knowing anything about it. It was a generic twin stick zombie shooter and i would have more fun playing smash tv(which i could not sadly find so i had to deal with a clone of bezerk)

[Astral]

After finding out about this functionality, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified first made it to this list, a game that shit on the XCOM franchise with a Mass Effect style cover based shooter ripoff. Wonky controls, moronic AI that was useless without you telling it what to do, and a storyline that was more generic than most.

Deus Ex: Invisible War, which was received in a bundle, and showed off the series' low point with a more or less generic first person shooter, taking away the open world and multiple choice feel of the original game.

Fate of the World, which I could never get to run more than once, and haven't bothered trying after that.

From Dust, which I played through once, and have no urge to play through again, partially due to the uPlay crap that has to install to make it work.

Ghost Master, which I thought was going to be a good remake of the Haunting Starring Polterguy game on the Sega Genesis, but somehow falls flat as a fun game.

Infestation: Survival Stories, for obvious reasons. A shitty game from the start, and it still hadn't gotten any better. Freemium to the max, if you die your respawn timer can be bought out, and all the best items are behind a pay wall, making it a superb example of Bribing Your Way to Victory.

Krater, which was fun in a futuristic Diablo-esque top down action-RPG sort of way, but the problems I had with it were shallow gameplay and little things that never seemed to smooth out with the rare patches.

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword, which lacked the large modder support and never really felt as balanced or fun as Warband.

Orion: Dino Horde, which was fun for about an hour, and then just became more of the same thing with a little bit of difference in a persistent skill tree. I got it for less than a dollar, so not much wasted there.

Solar 2, another game from a bundle, which had some interesting concepts but never really delivered on them. The only point in that game is to get to a black hole and devour the universe, which then restarts.

Supreme Commander 2, which didn't feel as good as the first one. Not much more to say about it.

Universe Sandbox, a fun physics tool to screw around in for a bit, but it's exactly what it says on the tin: a sandbox, with no goal other than to play with different possibilities in a gravity simulator, and was never updated more than a few times.

[nenjin]

Ghost Master, which I thought was going to be a good remake of the Haunting Starring Polterguy game on the Sega Genesis, but somehow falls flat as a fun game.

While this seems like blasphemy to me, it probably isn't conducive to a good thread to argue over what should or shouldn't be hidden.

[Shadowlord]

Deus Ex: Invisible War, which was received in a bundle, and showed off the series' low point with a more or less generic first person shooter, taking away the open world and multiple choice feel of the original game.

For real? I must have played through DX:IW something like 6 times. (And finished the original 2 or 3 times, and started like 5 more games that I didn't finish), yet I've only played through DX:HR once (and still haven't gotten anywhere in the DLC expansion because when I start it I have no clue what is going on and I can't play something I can't follow).

Mine contains probably just one:
Alliance of Valiant Arms: F2P, a shitty counter strike wannabe. Only installed because of a fancy tf2 knife, only heard that it installed rootkits to "prevent cheating" later.

Other than that, just a bunch of F2P games I installed because of friends.

Don't these just disappear from your list if you delete them? I'm pretty sure because I installed some and then removed them because they didn't work or were boring, and they went away.

(Personally I hadn't noticed the hidden category yet.)

[Yoink]

With the way I scrape the bottom of the barrel trying to find cheap Steam games that my computer can run, I feel like most of my purchases would end up in here if I bothered to arrange my library.

[Niveras]

Is it really about games you're embarrassed for having bought, or just games that you felt were a waste of money?

Well, either way:

Space Hack. Yeah, it's old, and I got it free, but the controls are terrible. I played for 19 minutes and I was done.

StarDrive. Does some concepts well but the interface is terrible. Like, really terrible. It's really hard for me to justify games in popular genres (like space 4X) that take steps backward from older, popular games that did things well. Why are icons on the galaxy map so tiny? Why is it so hard to select anything? Why is rushing production from the owned system list so buggy? Why is creating drag-dropping ships into the fleet designer so aggravating?

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes. Ohgodwhy, another example of failing to live up to its predecessors. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I really hope Kael didn't kill his career trying to save this title. LH is better than FE's release but it's still shit compared to FFH or AoW or any of the classic magic-civ games.

99 Levels to Hell. Expected an imperfect Binding of Isaac, got bupkis. 8 hours to beat it and 0 replayability.

Echo Prime. It's pretty, at least, but simple. It's a phone game ported to PC (if it isn't it sure as hell feels like it), complete with "social" integration in liking friends in order to get access to their powers. I don't remember if it went as far as integrating with Facebook. It could've been something better if it was more like an actual sci-fi/tech ARPG - a Darkspore that didn't suck, for example - but levels are just a left->right hallway for 3 sections of 3ish screens each. It's definitely not worth $10, not even if you like grinding.

3079, 3089. Ohgodwhy. These should never have been put for sale; they're tech demos at best, attempts to make a kind of procedural FPS-ARPG but they're extremely limited in scope.

Forge. I admit, I'll totally take the fall for this one. I expected an ARPG but should've read the page better; it's actually a arena deathmatch game set in fantasy. If you remember the mod, think Future vs Fantasy for Quake, except Fantasy only and with better interface. I actually paid full price for it and its since gone free to play and, I presume, is slowly dying. Last time I tried to actually play I couldn't find any servers with players.

Platformines. Okay concept, terrible execution. It's just a grind. 3 hours to "beat" the game, no story to speak of, no challenge that isn't 'cheap', no reason to play through on harder difficulties.

Reus. Actually one of the few games in this list that I'm not going to shit on. I really want to like it and play more, it's a lovely game, but I have trouble playing it. I can't seem to grasp, or commit to memory, the various synergies, what grows into what, or even how to unlock some of the growth stages of some of the resources (presuming it isn't just tied to the achievement/goal system), and I don't want to rely on spoilers.

Salvation Prophecy. Ohgodwhy. Shallow and terrible, both in terms of interface and execution. This concept would totally work with enough budget and polish behind it, but Salvation Prophecy itself falls far short of that mark.

Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Haha, what? I don't know why I got this. Into the bin it goes.

Gemini Wars. Released in 2012 but still somehow suffers from unskippable cutscenes. I should actually say "cutscene" because I never got past the intro movie - I can't even tab out of it! For various stability reasons I never actually got through that intro movie and after (apparently) 10 minutes of trying on various days, I just gave up. If you're a developer, for the love of God, please make sure you are never this dumb. I'll totally admit I'm being an extremely petty consumer right now - I wanna play! I wanna play rite NAOW! I dun care abut storee!!! - and I can't even comment on the gameplay... but as it stands, I never will.

A-bunch-of-puzzle-games-that-I-never-actually-play. Examples includes EDGE, Rush, Toki Tori (also a couple shooters like Hexodius and Geometry Wars). While I got these all for cheap and, from what little I played of them, they're all quite quality games, the issue is that if I'm at my PC and want to play a game, I'm going to want to play something with a little more meat to it - especially if it's something that has actual load times, that I can't just jump in to in less than a minute (Binding of Isaac and Risk of Rain are examples of simple games that I can jump in to with little investment). I wish I could somehow port these over to my PSP.

Spoiler: Also, the pièce de résistance: (click to show/hide)

Starbound: yeah, I went there (but please, let us not co-op this thread into shitting on Starbound). To be fair, I bought this on promise, but given their recent shenanigans I plan to completely ignore it for a year or two and then check back once its released/well-fleshed out with mods.

[Bouchart]

I'd probably quarantine Space Hack simply because it has such graphical problems that it's hard to play.

[gigaraptor487]

I don't have a hidden list so much as I catergorise my steam collection from ratings from 1 - 10, so these are the ones up to and including 5:

DOTA 2: Quickly discovered in spite of liking RTS games I hated MOBAs and the "community" associated with them. (3/10)

Chess the gathering : A free game key I got off the developers website and played it for about 10 minutes and came to the conclusion it was far from playable (3/10)

Angry Birds Space : Bought it because it was about $0.40 and I reckoned I could make a profit from the cards (and did). It plays badly with keyboard and mouse (4/10)

Darwinia : I found the story annoying and it was too simplistic and I lost attention after about an hour and just uninstalled it (4/10)

Day One Garry's Incident : Got it for free from the game giveaway (thanks sappho) and played it for a joke for about an hour before the novelty wore off, still hilarious though (4/10)

Half Life 2: Episode one : I found it highly disappointing and boring (althought Half life 2, episode 2 and lost coast sit at 8/10). (4/10)

Warhammer Dawn of War II : 2 reasons. Firstly, Games for windows live. Secondly, it changed Dawn of War I too much (I couldn't get enough METAL BAWKSES). (4/10)

Woodle Tree adventures : Got it for free on indiegala and played it for about 2 hours until the awful camera and half assed design put me off for good. (4/10)

Counter Strike Source: I disliked it because I didn't have the reflexes neccessary and I got into it after 18 months of CS:GO. (5/10)

Paranautical Activity: It seemed to dislike my computer and once I got chance to play It felt undercooked and after about an hour I went back to DOOM 2 and UT 2004. (5/10)

Red Faction Armageddon : Colossal Dissappointment after Guerilla and It glitched out on the first mission. (5/10)

Rocketbirds Hardboiled Chicken : It felt like a first year's project, but was still non the less somewhat enjoyable. (5/10)

Skydrift : A fairly thin game reminiscent of mario kart with none of the good controls IMO. (5/10)

Superfrog HD: Almost uncontrollable and plays like sonic. I hate sonic. (5/10)

Trine 2: Not sure why it is here, but I am not willing to find out either. (5/10)

Uplink : Another Introversion Software game. None of the others were as good as DEFCON before Prison Architect IMO. (5/10)


Well there is my highly controversial games that may as well be hidden in my steam library since I seldom play them but don't.

[Jack_Bread]

I've only got a few here.

And Yet It Moves: Not my type of game. The platforming also felt pretty awkward to me.

Dungeon Defenders: I really hate the graphics style here. I haven't played in a while, so I can't exactly remember why...

EDIT: Damn it, I accidentally posted before I was finished typing!

Magicite: Similarly to Dungeon Defenders, the graphics style sucks. I'm not a fan of the pixel art and the lighting is just the worse! It makes everything look so weird...

Marvel Puzzle Quest: It was fun for a few minutes, but I don't think I'd be playing it again.

[Leyic]

3079, 3089. Ohgodwhy. These should never have been put for sale; they're tech demos at best, attempts to make a kind of procedural FPS-ARPG but they're extremely limited in scope.

This is going to make me sound like a defensive fanboy, though I've hardly played these games, but here goes: The one difference these games have from most if not all the others on your list is that they were made by one programmer (with at least some of the artwork outsourced). I'm not trying to convince anyone to like the games, and it's fine if you think they're overpriced, but considering their development situation is similar to DF, you should judge the quality accordingly.

[Ozyton]

A bad game is still bad regardless of how many people made it.