10 Most Disappointing Games Of 2023

2023 has been a great year for video games, with plenty of all-time classics launching throughout these past few months. They aren't these games.

[MrDead]

Don't know if I have 10 but for me I was expecting more from Hogwarts, Atomic Heart started well but got boring but nothing can top the total disappointment of Starfield. Starfield the game I was expecting to play over and over for years is a broken dull mess filled with loading screens and bugs, a space rpg that has little RPG elements and the worst exploration of any Bethesda game to date.
The Steam beta has fixed the lack of DLSS and the blurry textures but everything else is still broken

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Atomic Heart and Starfield are GOTY.

[Sephiroushin]

Something disappointing is when you expect more from something, just something to be good, and nobody expected The Lord of the Rings: Gollum to be good!

[monkey602]

Yeah can't say I was expecting much from Gollum and Walking Dead so they weren't dissapointments.

But Wanted: Dead, Redfall, Forespoken, Payday 3 and Starfield absolutely belong on there

[Elda]

I enjoyed Forspoken, Wanted Dead, Immortals Of Aveum & I'm on the last chapter of Atlas Fallen which I'm enjoying as well. The 2 games on that list I have to say were mediocre & average for me is Redfall & Starfield, with Redfall being very mediocre & Starfield being average at best. The other 4 I have not played.

[ModsDoBetter]

For me it's

Wanted: Dead
Redfall
Lords of The Fallen
MW3
Mortal Kombat 1
Payday 3
Crime Boss
Starfield
Diablo 4
Atomic Heart

This was the year that made me stop pre-ordering games. I am big on collectibles so always tend to order CE or don't want to miss out on pre-order bonuses but after so many disappointments this year I've just cancelled anything I had pre ordered already.

[monkey602]

Yeah, Crime Boss was a disappointment. It didn't even need to be spectacular to be good. Terminator and Robocop are great examples. But Crime Boss fell so flat

[ModsDoBetter]

They had that cast who all phoned it in and the characters were so poorly written. What even was Touchdown? Michael Rooker reduced to that!?

Terminator and Robocop are great, I love how peopler were complaining that Peter Weller phoned in the performance before the games launch but it launched to universal acclaim.

[Z501]

2 first party Xbox games. Ouch!

[Tzuno]

I agree with the list and as a side note, Forspoken is an ok game.
Definitely worth playing when you can find it at an lower price.

[VersusDMC]

I thought gameplay wise it was great. Combat and running in the environment.

But i skipped most of the cutscnes and side missions. Did every other activity though. It was a podcast game for me. There is a demo so people can see for themselves if they like the gameplay loop.

[GhostScholar]

I loved starfield. It had the best narrative of any BGS game. I have doubts that 90 percent of people who railed on it actually played it. How it handled new game plus narratively was very cool. I have countless instances where I was just exploring and then had something totally unexpected happen. Also the starseed side quest was one of the coolest side quests ever.

Also hogworts not being nominated for game of the year they s ridiculous and everyone knows it was political because Rowling doesn’t bend the knee to the almighty lgbt population.

[gold_drake]

redfall, starfield and wanted dead are definitely warranted

with gollum,we all knew it was going to be a mess when the trailer dropped lol

[Crows90]

For me so far there's been 3. 3 games I highly anticipated and they fell flat on their ass!

1. Diablo 4
2. Starfields
3. Redfall / loved arkane

[VersusDMC]

Is Diablo 4 really that bad? Or is it just the bad microtransactions?

I don't care either way but i skimmed some reviews and they say it has alot of content. If the microtransactions didn't exist would the game be excellent with just the launch content?

[HyperMoused]

For me i found the fact that everything scales very frustrating, i played the barbarian, so getting levels doesnt really work to help you, you need gear and good gear is far and few between.....so being a bonk guy and being solo, if you are overwehelmed there isnt much you can do...i found myself running in circles until call of the ancients cooled down (calls in a bunch of spirit guys to help out for a bit).....do some damage and start again...i got bored quick....also with the expansions, you have to make a whole new character to play them...every time.

[VivaChe]

Why do these articles keep saying Golum was "disappointing"? No one expected it to be good. It turned out to be as bad as everyone expected. Now Starfield, THAT was a disappointment.

[-Foxtrot]

My sense of time is warped, I honestly thought Forspoken was last year.

[Inverno]

For me it was ToTK and Hogwarts. Weird to say I actually prefer BoTW for some reason despite the problems I had with it. I've played the old PC Harry Potter games and am playing the PS2 versions and eventually the Gameboy games. I had more fun with Prisoner of Azkaban than Hogwarts Legacy.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Might as well have Spider-Man 2 on the list if we're including Starfield. Meaning that having either on the list is ridiculous.