Top 10 Most Overrated Video Games of All Time
You've likely played them. You may have even loved them. But are they truly worthy of the praise heaped upon them? We're talking about overrated video games, those titles that, while popular, might not quite live up to the hype. Maybe they're too repetitive, too simplistic, or just plain boring. Or perhaps they're technically impressive but lack the heart and soul of a truly great game. Whatever the reason, these games have left many players feeling underwhelmed and wondering what all the fuss was about.This is your chance to share your opinion and let the world know which games you think are overrated. Did a certain open-world game promise an adventure but deliver a tedious slog? Or maybe a highly anticipated sequel fell flat compared to its predecessor. Perhaps a critically acclaimed indie darling left you scratching your head. Whatever your experience, your voice matters.
The thing I hate about this game is the design. Why can't we have a well-made, unique game that challenges us? Five Nights at Freddy's has been criticized as well, but that's because its horror is of a particular style. SL was a really refreshing change for the series, but people still criticize it for not allowing movement. Maybe you should actually play the game!
In comparison, this game is much worse. Why can't they change up the series? Honestly, I haven't played it, but watching my friends play, it looks so repetitive! The games don't change. We need different maps, different weapons, and different mechanics! Maybe just a touch of creativity? I understand if you like this game. This is totally my opinion. Feel free to like what you want, but this is how I feel.
The game is boring and repetitive, and you need to grind a ridiculous amount in order to get anywhere in Survival mode.
The graphics are bad, consisting of washed-up pixel art pasted onto 3D cubes. The only fun you can get out of this game is if you cooperate with your friends in the same world.
If you have no Minecraft-playing friends, however, you're just stuck with the same grind-heavy, eye-assaulting experience for hours.
I don't understand why anyone would like this game. First of all, nothing exciting ever happens. You dig around, fight the same six enemies, and then you build stuff. The game consumes more time than almost any other video game, yet it doesn't even have skills or levels, except for making better armor and weapons.
Even then, there's not much to do with all that gear. You only need armor and weapons to fend off those same repetitive enemies. The game lacks a clear goal. All you do is build and add on to whatever you've built, and then build something else. There is no story, no characters to get attached to, and not even a diversity in weapon choice.
As for the graphics, I don't care about them. There are far better games with similar graphics, and they were all made 20 or more years ago. Despite all of this, people are still obsessed with the game. I wouldn't mind, except that I can't escape it. It's everywhere: on YouTube, on Xbox, and people even talk about it all the time. I think it's time that everyone stops caring about this game. Life would be a lot less annoying if they did.
I thought about voting for Minecraft until I saw this. The literal goal of Fortnite is to shoot people, do a cringey dance once you win, and then restart. Despite all the popularity they've gained and will likely always have, they even considered copying Roblox. Holy crap, I hope everyone realized after that update that Fortnite is a cash grab.
You can literally play all of those games for free on Roblox, but Fortnite doesn't care - they just want attention. I'm not going to argue with anyone who likes the game, but I will say this: Fortnite is the most overrated game ever.
Angry Birds was a fun, simple game at first. But then the Angry Birds movie came out. While the movie itself was enjoyable, ever since then, the franchise has become oversaturated. Every single type of mobile game has been given an Angry Birds coat of paint.
Every time I use my phone, I am bombarded with ads for one of the new Angry Birds games, done in the post-movie art style, of course, which are always terrible. Why can't they just update the old games with new content and leave it at that? No one wants to buy their stupid toys. If someone were to pull out the Master Sword to travel seven years into the future, I swear the first thing they will see is a huge sign advertising the sixth installment of the Angry Birds cinematic universe!
Five Nights at Freddy's - that's all I hear about. Yes, the first game may be entertaining, but once that sequel came out, oh geez. And don't even get me started on the fandom. To get popular, all you have to do is make something unrelated to Five Nights at Freddy's, randomly copy and paste animatronics into the video, and boom - a ton of subscribers.
And the ships, oh Lord, the ships. If they didn't exist, the world would be a much better place. Don't people know that it's strange to ship robots? Apparently not. Anyway, Five Nights at Freddy's is too popular and, quite frankly, too rushed. Four games in one year? That, my friend, is what I call a lack of effort. I won't be surprised if there's merchandise, a TV show, a movie, a book, an anime, and so on.
Halo 2 Anniversary and Halo 3 are some of my favorite games ever, but this first game really doesn't hold much of a torch. The only reason people in the Halo community call it a masterpiece is because it was really good for its time. But now? Its graphics have shown their age, the levels are repetitive and boring (mostly), and the story is extremely simple. The voice acting? Meh, it's okay.
I admire Bungie's five seconds of fun rule, and the gameplay is pretty solid (although one out of ten for multiplayer) against the Covenant, but that does not make it a great game, not by today's standards. I'd rather play Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare than this any day. All the Halos after this one, except maybe five (and Spartan Strike/Assault), completely outdo it in every aspect.
When I first saw Flappy Bird, I actually thought it was Super Mario Bros but with a bird character. I assumed it was by Nintendo because it borrowed heavily from Super Mario World. All you do in the game is tap your phone screen to fly the bird between pipes until you mess up.
It was a trend back in 2013-2014, but I'm glad the game has lost its popularity now.
I find it amusing that people were angry about Nintendo potentially suing them for, well, literally stealing backgrounds. It wouldn't have been difficult for the game developers to be more unique with their designs instead of just stealing them. Nintendo had every right to consider legal action. They were infringed upon.
This game is awfully overrated. At this point, we came from the word suspicious to sus. The game has some of the dumbest jokes ever and is filled with 10-year-olds. The word sus, which was originally an acronym, has turned into a real word because of this game.
Now I am truly sick of this game. All people talk about is this game. In lobbies, people make inappropriate jokes, and kids do annoying things, and people refuse to play the game. Every match, unless you actually have friends, usually ends with people in random chats leaving the match.
People accuse you for no reason and kick you out. Also, this game is ruining meme compilations like COVID. They make poor jokes related to this game in YouTube comments. The fanbase, unfortunately, even produces inappropriate content of Among Us. Furthermore, the mini crewmate memes are annoying, not cute.
The single-player mode has amazing actors and a compelling story. Everything in single-player is a lot of fun. However, the multiplayer experience is a different story: you get killed for no reason, encounter hackers, and have your assets stolen. Grand Theft Auto V may be the worst game to play online.
Is it the best Grand Theft Auto game? No! The greatest Grand Theft Auto game, in my opinion, is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. People claim that this is the best Grand Theft Auto of all time, but due to its problematic multiplayer, I believe it's the most overrated game of all time. Why can't there be different types of servers to choose from? Ideally, it would separate the sociopaths from the normal players, but that wouldn't work either because of trolls.
Everything you do in this game doesn't feel fun. It feels like a task. It's like when your teacher gives you a worksheet. This game makes you feel the same way. You get mad and say, "Fine, I'll do it." There is no enjoyment in doing quests.
Free-roaming in this game isn't fun either. Everything in the game gets boring after 10 minutes. Once I got off, I never had the urge to play it again, and it's been like 10 years since then.
Way too overrated. Not fun at all. It feels and looks like a childish game. When I played the tutorial, I fell asleep at my computer. I tried to get into the game and just couldn't.
I can't imagine dishing out tons of money for the constant expansions on top of the monthly fee. My friend's family lost their house due to paying for this game and in-game items instead of their rent!
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Friday Night Funkin' deserves to be forgotten. It's a music-based game with terrible music. The characters' "singing" is glorified high-pitched beeps.
Most of the characters themselves are one-dimensional and seemingly hastily made, while those who aren't are ripped from popular Newgrounds franchises. The game was big in 2021-2022, but the hype pretty much (rightfully) died in 2023.
I hope it never gets big again.
This game had something going for it until it didn't. And as soon as it didn't, it all went downhill from there. Horrible people left and right, constant drama, and the songs suck.
I'm not even going to mention the developers of the vanilla game who essentially scammed people out of 2 million dollars back in 2021.
I don't play Genshin Impact, but I've watched people play it, and my acquaintances keep making references to it and praising it. The game has beautiful environments, but that's all it has.
It's full of microtransactions, the characters are annoying (especially Paimon), the story is lame, and it contains all the worst anime tropes.
Garbage writing, and the entire "lore" can be summarized in two sentences. Yet these low-IQ kids think it's a "masterclass" of writing.
It's just BOTW but with anime characters. Nothing too spectacular. Basically, it's a game for those who refuse to buy Nintendo consoles and for weebs. Very overrated on 4chan and other sites like it.
Also, there is a lot of hentai of it, probably even reaching Overwatch levels.
The game is awesome for machinimas and multiplayer, but the single player never really lived up to it. I just felt like it was too overrated for my liking. But then again, that's my thought.
The single player of this game is awful, and the multiplayer has nothing special, so why is this game so popular?
I give this an 8.0/10. It's not even close to a classic for me. My cousin Justin and I just dominate this on the hardest setting. It's really easy.
Oh my God. This game should be at the top of any such list. It epitomizes everything that's wrong with the mobile gaming industry today. You have to pay for virtually everything, and the gameplay is entirely uninspired.
King is the second-largest mobile developer today, recently overtaken by Niantic, but they really don't deserve their status. How could this game even be ranked at number 33?
I don't understand how people can consider this a good game. It's terrible. There are so many ads. If you run out of lives, you have to wait for them to replenish or, bafflingly, some people actually pay for them. Why would a game like this even have a lives system to begin with?
It's an okay game, but it hardly deserves all the praise it has received. The storyline is somewhat interesting, but the graphics are terrible. The gameplay is rather boring, the main character is very unlikable, and the villain lacks personality or motive. I can't say I actually cared when Aerith died either. She was a pretty annoying character, in my opinion.
There are so many other Final Fantasy games that are better, but for some reason, they're always overshadowed by this one. I've never understood why.
The game is great, but is extremely overrated.
Nothing you do has any consequence in this game. In one playthrough, you, the Dragonborn, can become the leader of the Companions, Thieves Guild, College of Winterhold, and the Dark Brotherhood. No one ever acknowledges you for saving the entire world apart from a few lines from guards and a few NPCs. You can kill a chicken, and that same guard draws his sword on you, the guard that knows you just defeated Alduin and saved the entire Skyrim universe.
Your skills and bonuses don't matter because you can just level up infinitely with the legendary skill system and eventually get every single perk and every skill to 100. Your level 30 mage can just become a stealth assassin after 2 hours of sneak attacking random bandits, and progression doesn't feel earned.
There's a lot of content, but the content is very shallow with little room for roleplaying. The most you get is screwing someone over at the end of a side quest or occasionally defying a Daedric lord and failing the quest, or not even that, just putting it on hold.
It's just not that good of a game. Sure, in your first playthrough, you get immersed in it, but after that, unless you install mods, there's nothing else for you. It's the same stuff all over again.
I played them when they were released, and I don't know what world some of the people posting were living in, but the first one really wasn't that mind-blowing at all. Doom and its sequel had better level design, atmosphere, and were more fun. They came out about five years before Half-Life. They even ripped the story off from Doom, which barely even had one to begin with. Is that what you're trying to say is impressive about it?
Both are pretty generic in that regard. Half-Life just fleshed it out a little more, and gameplay-wise, it was very boring and weak. But it was rendered in 3D, so I guess it was the best FPS ever made? Its presentation was nice, but it was severely lacking in other areas, in my opinion. Half-Life 2 was just more of the same for me. The gameplay was not fun, and the story was as generic as ever.
I'm not sure whether to call this game overrated or not. On one hand, there are zero "true fans" of Mario who say this game is the best in the series. Admittedly, since Bros 3 (and I would argue Lost Levels, although this is a very unpopular opinion), every game in the series has performed better in every way. I mean, give me one argument for why this game is the best in the series, other than its originality.
On the other hand, there will always be nostalgia-blinded people who stopped playing the series (and therefore are not "true fans") because they will never feel the same joy as when they played the first game. There are also guys who have never played video games except for this one during its 1985 glory.
Only 33? Come on! The graphics are so unimpressive. Clearly, the only reason it is 2D is to cash in on the nostalgia of the older generation. The so-called "nice guy monsters whom you're supposed to give mercy to" make Porky Minch look like Tails. The dialogue never made me laugh, just groan out of sheer stupidity.
Worst of all, despite being a huge rip-off of the Mother series, the only thing they "forgot" to copy is the love for your parents who always welcome you home. And by parents, I mean the real ones who raised you, not just a bunch of strangers whom you've talked to for, like, two seconds. The only two good things in this game are the music and the final boss. This game should be heavily criticized, along with the people who created it.
This game is so overrated, it's crazy. What is there about this game that is even somewhat gratifying? It certainly didn't revolutionize the gaming industry. It's not addicting. In fact, I can barely play this game for 10 minutes before getting bored out of my skull.
It would be one thing if the Tetris "franchise" had actually evolved over the years, but that's not the case. I'm not even sure it can be considered a video game anymore, given its appearances on iPods, the Internet, and even cell phones.
And yet, reviewers give high praise to this overrated game. It ranked in the top ten on G4's "Top 100 Video Games of All Time" list. Many gaming communities also rank Tetris very high on their lists. Why? What is so good about this game? It's not revolutionary. It's not addicting. I just don't understand. There is absolutely no reason the game should be treated the way it is.
I hate Pokémon. The people there are abusing the poor little creatures. Throwing big, hard balls into their faces. And then they go into the balls? It's probably so cramped in there! And the Pokémon are best friends with their kidnappers?
Who only use those Pokémon to get worthless badges, to win in competitions, and to make other Pokémon faint so that they can use them to do the same things? This is so overrated! I wish I had 100 votes so that I could vote for all of the Pokémon games on this list.
I have no idea why this game was so popular for a while. It takes the basic elements of Pokemon, which were already worse than many turn-based RPGs, and adds walking.
I like playing this game once in a while, but I would argue that, besides Brawl with Subspace Emissary, there are no features that make it considerably better than Ultimate. The only things Melee has over Ultimate are Break the Target and Adventure Mode, which are pretty minor and not enough to outshine Ultimate.
Sure, Melee has wavedashing, but it's one of the reasons competitive Melee is so hard to get into. You are basically praising a game for a glitch that wasn't even planned by the developers.
Incredibly overrated. The style is utterly unappealing, with muted colors and character models that look like they've been converted from the PS2 era. The story is lackluster, featuring characters I don't care for and offering no emotional attachment as a result.
But it's mainly the gameplay that disappoints the most. It has loose driving controls that make you feel like you're on an ice rink. The mission structure restarts the mission every time you lose, which can be particularly annoying when those missions are long. The tasks are repetitive, the open-world environment is dull and doesn't reward exploration, and some areas are so dark that it's hard to see.
Even worse, the gameplay has deteriorated from previous installments. Gone are the multiple creative weapons and the fun open world that made earlier games enjoyable. In their place is a game that is a hollow shell of its predecessors. The only reason this game was rated so highly is because of the brand name. Thankfully, Chinatown Wars (my favorite Grand Theft Auto game) and V came along to redeem the series, but this installment remains a blight on the series' otherwise wonderful legacy.
I grew up with this game and I really like it, but I think that sometimes this game has really good ideas and fails to expand upon them throughout the entire level. For example, they introduce you to the Bomboos at the start of the level and never use this cool enemy until the boss at the end.
They could have made an entire level based around Bomboos. That's why I like Galaxy 2, 3D World, and Odyssey more: their level design has better focus.
Not a big fan. Everyone says it's the best game ever, but I just don't get it. It's another Mario game, except it controls way worse. "Oh, but it has amazing music!" Okay, sure, the music is nice to listen to, but that doesn't excuse it.
There's nothing really wrong with these games on their own, but if it weren't for the newer games, Pokemon would probably be the shallow, boring thing people think it is. Newer generations have better graphics, more Pokemon species for greater choice, and aspects like breeding, EV training, held items, and new moves that give the game an incredibly deep meta. Yet, all you see is people complaining about how the new designs are bad.
Each generation has well-liked Pokemon and less popular ones. We get it. You don't have to love them all, but they're all there, no matter what, and that can't be changed.
Why do people even defend this? Sure, it has Disney characters in it, but that doesn't make it a good game! The story is cheesy, and Sora is just an anime Mickey Mouse.
The titles are even worse. "365/2 Days"? And you're supposed to pronounce it "365 Days over 2"? Just name the game something else!
Sora will be the last fighter in Smash Ultimate, giving us more reasons to hate him. My dreams of having Earthworm Jim, Crazy Dave, Waluigi, Dr. Eggman, Scorpion, and Klaymen in Smash have been destroyed by some annoying anime kid. Screw you, Sora.
People who say this is a good game didn't play it enough. I'm currently grinding, and it's obvious that it was rushed.
It's a good concept, but it wasn't done very well. The RNG is ridiculous. I love the FNAF series, but this is honestly overrated garbage.
Why isn't this higher on the list? Pokémon Red is ranked higher than this, and it isn't anywhere near as hated as this game and series.
The worst game case picture I have ever seen.