Steam

what’s the game you regret buying the most on steam, and why?

i go first
Sea Of Thieves
it’s almost unplayable without friends to team up with, and online matchmaking makes communication and coordination a real challenge. after completing missions over and over, only to get my treasure stolen by other players on the way back, i eventually gave up on the game

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gejiw94601

Sea of Thieves for me too and for a similar reason. Friend told me to buy it like a year ago and that he wanted to play it with me and we still have yet to play it together. Tried it solo for a bit and it's miserable.

I have since stopped buying games he says he wants to play with me because we never end up playing them lol.

1 day ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

yeah, when you play alone, there’s just way too much to handle on your own

1 day ago
kosmic_drama

You two should play it together.

23 hours ago
gergobergo69
:hl2:

https://preview.redd.it/0ajahyn2wtbf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd4654278a35922a4c4847745163fd97cefa114a

18 hours ago
synexbaby

An asdf movie reference? In this economy? Edit: meg miert vannak itt magyarok

15 hours ago
Return_Dusk

Now that you can play it without strangers who loot your ship, it's actually pretty good. And I have to handle the ship on my own already anyway, my friend usually never helps with that when we play together 😂

19 hours ago
Vark675

They threw such a hissy fit about PvE mode for literally years, then when they finally gave in and made one they absolutely trashed the reward system for it to try and force people into letting themselves be bullied by the sweaty assholes that were the entire reason people wanted PvE in the first place.

I don't know why their dev team are such annoying losers. Did they ever increase the rewards or are they still being giant babies about it?

16 hours ago
Lichenee
:portal2:

The gold reward changed to be the same between Safer Seas and High Seas (or something like that, I forgor the name). But in Safer Seas reputation (that lvl up with each faction) is limited to 25, you can't have your own ship (very lame, needless to say). Oh yea easier to share the link: https://seaofthieves.wiki.gg/wiki/Game_Mode

16 hours ago
Myst3ryGardener

Oh interesting that they changed the gold reward. It was like 30% or some BS originally iirc? Still stupid that you can't enjoy the full game though. They could at least make solo queue servers for the regular High Seas mode. Reapers are another annoying af design choice.

15 hours ago
Vark675

That's better, but I'm still not coming back until they let me have my own ship. They need to stop being tits.

15 hours ago
G2Gankos

If i had a dollar for every time my friends bait me into buying a game that we play just long enough that I can’t get a refund anymore, it still wouldn’t be enough to get my money back 🙃

20 hours ago
Efficient_Fish2436

Damn .. I'm sorry. I'll play with you!! My good friend passed recently we would play almost nightly. We had such a a blast and even made other friends we met up with IRL.

1 day ago
iSebastian1

Sorry for your loss :(

13 hours ago
TONKAHANAH

I think i bought this one for like $20 or something. Only every played it once with a couple of friends and I'll probably never play it again. I know $20 for a one time played game seems like a lot but if you consider the fact that a movie or concert ticket would cost just as much if not way more for a night of fun with your buds, i aint mad at that.

1 day ago
Bratwurscht13
:gta5:

That became my rule #1: never buy co-op games friends recommend.

It happened way too often.

22 hours ago
Libero03

Don't listen to your friends, my friend.

21 hours ago
Useful-Angle1941

Wait.

15 hours ago
HardcoreShadow

I just really dislike that you can’t turn OFF PvP, and just enjoy it with teammates doing Co-Op PvE.

Any time in the past we’ve come off the game is because we got killed by other players while just trying to do Quests. And it diminishes being fun at that point.

It’s a really bad experience having forced PvP in my opinion.

20 hours ago
yeahthebaneries

Monster hunter WILDS** - worst optimisation on my rtx 3080… tried for an hour or two, haven’t played it since

1 day ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

TT

1 day ago
4chanisblockedatwork

Absolutely loved World but Wilds? Bought day one and haven’t touched since April with sub 10 hours.

1 day ago
yeahthebaneries

Ahhh i meant wilds hahaha, i loved world

1 day ago
DeadlyAidan

MHWilds is terribly optimized, yes, but was it really bad enough on a 3080 to make you quit? my friend is on a 3060 and is playing on mostly low with DLSS and it was playable, a 3080 should be able to handle it no problem

19 hours ago
InsidiousDefeat

My take on this is that we are seeing the mostly regurgitated tech streamer opinions. My whole group played the entire game on 2070 super, and various 30-series. Anyone calling it unplayable is one of those 4k only/200fps/500hz people.

There were definitely some fps drops but I'll be honest I've never cared about that even in the N64 days. Mh wilds performance wasn't gameplay impacting.

18 hours ago
yeahthebaneries

Definitely worse than a few fps drops for me - haven’t experienced it with any other game .. so not exactly sure what the issue is, I may have to revisit it

16 hours ago
Pizuica

Yeah don't be gaslight, the game is terribly made. They used the RE Engine to build the game, which is good for the RE remakes. Not for games that are open world and that they developed like Dragon's Dogma 2 or obviously MH Wilds, and surprise surprise both have terrible performance. I'm glad i skipped this release and I'm tired of people defending the mediocrity of capcom.

13 hours ago
Negative-Security771

Kerbel Space Programm 2

1 day ago
ColettesWorld

Yo how's it compare to KSP1? What're the negatives? I haven't seen any footage of KSP2 yet.

1 day ago
wyattlee1274

You won't ever see anything new with KSP2. It should be taken off of steam. The studio was sold to a private equity firm with the KSP IP and will probably never be anything in the future.

KSP 1 is still great, modders have brought it to this decade graphics and content wise.

A group of the best modders in the KSP space have gotten together to make its spiritual successor called KSA which is making great progress and aims to remake the heart of the game from the ground up to fix the issues with the first game.

KSP2 may be a stain that won't go away, but the modding community gives me hope

23 hours ago
andovinci

What mod do you recommend for updated graphics?

14 hours ago
wyattlee1274

Waterfall, firefly, blackrock volumetric clouds (I have a google drive link since it's a paid mod) deffered render, scatter, parallax 2.0

14 hours ago
andovinci

Thank you! I’m going to look for them in Ckan, but if you can share the link for the volumetric I’d be interested and grateful

14 hours ago
Sarkastikor

I haven't actually played it but from what i've seen. Its like a Wizard Of Legend 2 situation. Where its the first game.

But less and worse polished, because the first game was supported for so long.

1 day ago
Acceptable_Ad557

Imagine the worst bits of KSP1 and then times it by 100x on some mega bullshit machine and you get KSP2! Seriously never understood how they could make a sequel so bad when the first game was great

1 day ago
guska

Not even half done and abandoned

22 hours ago
JakeRidesAgain

This is one of my biggest patient gamer wins, because I was so excited for KSP2 but very wary after the developers got bought by Take Two. I figured the KSP mod ecosystem would get me by until KSP2 was in a moddable-enough shape for me. Fast forward and I rarely hear anything good about KSP2 and it seems like my wariness was warranted. 

If Google makes a thing or if Take Two buys a thing, I basically just consider that a dead thing walking.

16 hours ago
_bleeding_Hemorrhoid

Half life 2, i would only have 7 games now instead of 7000.

1 day ago
IDDMaximus

If Black Mesa isn't among those, time to make it 7001!

1 day ago
_bleeding_Hemorrhoid

Lol, 7000 games and you honestly think I'd have missed that masterpiece?

6 hours ago
IDDMaximus

Wasn't sure you'd have time to revisit the same story! I'm currently mid playthrough (Xen) of Black Mesa for the first time since HL2 ages ago.

5 hours ago
United-Advantage-100

Soo 100 of those are valve mods right lol

23 hours ago
Zealousideal_Cod189

Pretty much all the EA and Ubisoft stuff. They always have some kind of garbage launcher that makes games impossible to play on Steamdeck.

Update: wow, was not expecting this to be such a universal experience!

Those launchers are such a pain!

1 day ago
MaybeMayoi

It's like rolling the dice every time you want to play. Sometimes a game will start right up, but the next time it crashes on start and nothing I do will fix it. The next time it works fine. It's like, am I going to get to play a game tonight? Who knows!

1 day ago
Potterrrrrrrr

I’ve found launching far cry that if I don’t have the Ubisoft connect app running either explicitly or in the background my game will silently fail to launch, getting stuck on the “running install script ()” message. Was annoying to figure out, I hate how inconvenient they make playing their games.

1 day ago
fuddlesworth

I refuse to buy any ubisoft or ea game on steam. Don't care what the discount is. 

1 day ago
Alert_Promotion3309

These companies’ launchers are really awful.

23 hours ago
0nlyDDG

Ive played mass effect legendary ed and ac odyssey on steam deck. Never had a problem with the launcher. Maybe i got lucky with those games.

23 hours ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

real talk lmao

1 day ago
Bimpy96

Killer Klowns from Outer Space since it dead so quickly and I was stupid enough to pre order it

1 day ago
HamfistTheStruggle

Oooof, I absolutely love the movie but I knew the game even if great would be dead within a year cause no one knows about it. It's super niche.

Same thing with ash vs evil dead the game. I love ash and I loved that game but you can't find anyone to play it with. I will cherish the memories of when it was free to ps5 players so I got the whole gang to play it for a weekend.

15 hours ago
OhLongJongson

i love that movie and i hardly knew there was even a game. now that i think about it i maybe recall seeing a teaser during some E3 type thing

12 hours ago
SIN-apps1

**removes Sea of Thieves from my wishlist

23 hours ago
Tricky_Charge_6736

Sea of thieves isn't bad like that, you just have to know what game it is and what to expect, its still a great game.

1: there is no progression, no use for gold and riches, no weapon upgrades at all - your gold will often get stolen by others but its really not that important because gold is only used to buy cosmetics

2: you will get sunk lots of times by other players, you will sink other players from time to time

3: playing alone is probably pretty boring

Its just a fun game to play with a buddy or group of buddies, mess around and try to steal some gold or sink some other players, with tense moments and cool cannon fights. Its not like a competitive let's win type of experience its a mess around with cool sailing mechanics and funny online interactions. If you're trying to be competitive its probably a rough experience but telling your buddy to take the wheel while you try to sneak onto another players ship with a barrel of explosives yelling "you've been boarded!!" is what its about (yes your boat was probably sunk in the process)

14 hours ago
iantayls

The whole game is boring, I’m sorry. Like, you travel around in a ship to an empty island, use the shitty combat mechanics to fight off impossibly easy enemies, dig around for a treasure that doesn’t matter, only to be sunk anyway, but who cares right? Since the treasure doesn’t matter.

I understand the whole “friends we made along the way” argument, but I just find it rings a bit hollow when I could be literally hanging and getting drunk with my friends while doing any other activity. Might as well play a fun game and do the same thing instead.

It’s a pirate dress up game at most, and it isn’t even very good at being that

12 hours ago
DuDuhDamDash

A lot better than Skull and Bones.

6 hours ago
Nico_is_not_a_god

It's a game made exclusively for the people that want a game where you plunder treasure from other players, everything other than the nautical pvp is an afterthought because you can't maintain a GAAS without having some token gameplay loop for those uninterested in PvP.

10 hours ago
Sno-Lo

Duke nukem forever. That game was a major letdown, and I loved duke nukem games as a kid

23 hours ago
bluegreenwookie

I found it interesting but probably not in the way it was meant to be.

Since it had such a crazy development over such a long period of time you can kinda see the trends in gaming that happened over it's development period as they constantly tried to appeal to what was new while they were still making the game.

So i actually had a lot of fun just looking at the game through that lens

19 hours ago
Arikaido777

this is why the Darksiders games are interesting to me, each one takes current gaming trends and dresses it up like a new thing, which is why 1 plays like God of War and 3 plays like a bad soulslike. fascinating series of games

17 hours ago
TechCF

I had a good time playing through it. Knowing it wouldn't be the same as the old one, which I often play on my old dos machine.

17 hours ago
Voeno

Any game that requires another launcher. Looking at you every EA game ever.

23 hours ago
SpagettiKonfetti

You probably missing out every Larian and CD Projekt Red games too

19 hours ago
Voeno

Nah I played them but now that I think about it I didn’t even realize they had a launcher but seriously fuck EA.

19 hours ago
RealbasicFriends

In the instance of Larian's launcher at least for BG3 you can actually put in a launch sequence in the game's setting to completely skip the launcher.

14 hours ago
xDuzTin

Yep, an important aspect is that specifically launchers like EA and Ubisoft are just awful, they are absolute trash. Larians launcher and CDPRs launchers don’t hinder anyone playing the game, they can be skipped via launch parameters and don’t even require a log in, oh and most importantly they don’t break the game and prevent you from playing, like EA/Ubisoft launchers

10 hours ago
DocOctoRex

The Crew. Was enjoying playing it, then it was taken from me. Fair to say Ubisoft isn't getting my money again.

23 hours ago
FeetSniffer9008

The only thing Ubisoft is receiving from me is a strongy-worded pipe bomb

13 hours ago
CipherDB

Funny enough Sea of Thieves is actually one of my favorite games but I totally get why it can be frustrating solo. Random crews barely talk and getting ambushed after grinding sucks. With friends though it turns into pure chaotic fun.

For me the game I regret buying the most is Aliens: Colonial Marines. I was hyped because of the franchise but the gameplay was awful, the AI was broken, and the whole thing felt rushed. Massive letdown from start to finish.

21 hours ago
hockey17jp

Starfield. Maybe I just need a new monitor but I bought a brand new top end PC to be sure I could run Starfield at ultra and preordered the game and then…

  1. It looks like shit graphically

  2. It is not fun to play

1 day ago
Slappy-_-Boy

It's not your monitor, it's just Starfield.

1 day ago
Poison1990

Same but I bought a 4070. The cities are just so dull compared to other games.

1 day ago
JonathanRL

I knew I was going to buy either Starfield or Baldurs Gate 3. I tried Starfield via Game Pass and after that, I knew that Baldurs Gate 3 was probably the safer option. I "tried" it first but before I even reached the grove I knew I would like this game; shut it down and bought my own copy.

1 day ago
Leonum

I still can't believe I couldn't invite my own parents to my wedding

15 hours ago
-Deminos-

I too bought/made a whole new computer just for Starfield. I never really hated it but I agree with most people’s sentiments on it. I then went on to play cyberpunk and baldurs gate twice in a row each, with starfield only once (and that one actually had ng+ in it).

20 hours ago
LordQwerty_NZ

Lol I can get hard copies at my local game store for $9 now and it's still a bad deal

1 day ago
ChapsHK

https://preview.redd.it/f4sxs3sixrbf1.jpeg?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13e57514948245a4a09de1017be087701a3d849a

This. And Elden Ring... I bought all of them before realising I actually don't like the gameplay 😅

1 day ago
TacoSpacePirate

Why buy all of them at once?

1 day ago
ChapsHK

They looked nice, I thought I would like them. I like the art style and the ambiance. But I can't get through the gameplay.

Anyway, I said I regret buying them because I'll never play them, but somehow now that they are here, I'm still kind of happy to have them on my (virtual) shelf.

So not that big of an issue after all 👍

1 day ago
Circo_Inhumanitas

And maybe someday you'll decide to give them another try and the gameplay actually clicks. If not, no biggie.

23 hours ago
Fignapz

Happened to me. Bought Elden Ring like a month after launch. Never played a souls game. I didn’t get it. 

Had a few friends encourage me to try again over the summer. Sort of explained the mechanics and how I have bad habits for souls games because of the standard way to play similar games. 

Then it just clicked. Now I get it and love the combat. It’s like a well orchestrated dance when you know how it works and I love that about it. 

Except for crucible knights, fuck them. 

14 hours ago
Jessyloxx

Just my two cents cause I was in the same situation. I downloaded some mod that lessens bosses damage and keeps souls upon dying. It made all games easier to the point of me really enjoying and beating them. It also made even losing fights enjoyable because I wasn't one-two clapped but beaten consistently over 10-15 mins fights 😂 so in short, fuck the "git good" players, play as you want!

23 hours ago
Excaliburn3d

We are not here to judge.

1 day ago
Certain_Nothing7942
:steam-white:2025

he obviously wasn’t thinking

19 hours ago
TONKAHANAH

I kinda feel that way about Lies of P. I keep trying to go back to it and every time I do I realize "im not really having fun with this". I was trying to play it while having a pod cast or some stream going on another display and wasnt really fully enjoying it. I realized it was just kinda something mindless for my hands to do while I half watched/listened to something else and that seemed like a shitty way to take in any media. I'd rather fully engage with a game but the game is too frustrating and tedious on its own to hold me on its own.

1 day ago
ChapsHK

Yeah, I feel the same about Lies of P. The art and ambiance look very good, but I don't think I'll like the gameplay either.

So I think I'll give it a chance eventually, when it will be sold for less than 5$ 😅.

1 day ago
Pengo_PlayzI

if it’s the difficulty, the devs have added easier difficulties! i’m personally not an amazing gamer but i fell in love with this game and the lore bc pinocchio, and the art and ambience so having it easier was amazing!!

1 day ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

damnnnnn bro, i only bought dark souls 3, but i couldn’t really get into it either

1 day ago
CipherDB

I do that too lol I’ll buy an entire franchise because it looks cool or is on sale then play one of them for like 10 minutes and never touch the rest. I’ve got over 2000 games in my Steam library and probably played less than 100 of them. It’s a problem but also kind of an art collection at this point.

20 hours ago
dankyspank

Holy shit, I did the same thing. I have like 8 hours on the first one and that's about it.

1 day ago
AlkaKr

100% starfield.

Have never played such a boring and badly designed game.

Its a literal loading screen simulator.

1 day ago
AnotherUN91

Im super glad I only played it on gamepass.

Honestly the writing for me was super mid.

How does one become the chosen one with in 10 minutes of starting the game?

Even in Skyrim it happens relatively quickly in the main plot line. But at least you have to climb a mountain. Not just get knocked out by some random ass artifact.

I played for maybe 4 hours before I realized it wasn't for me.

20 hours ago
redspacebadger

So glad I played it on game pass instead of buying on steam.

21 hours ago
PatrickHasAReddit

Heartbound. Fuck that guy.

1 day ago
Jaded-Sell879

What happened?

23 hours ago
Gweeb22

Multiple things. Idk which one they are upset about(or all of them) I'm sticking to facts. Not gonna throw out buzz words like narcissist or egotistical Cause I'm no doctor.(watch the healthy gamer gg video with thor for more insight on that)

To preface. He made heartbound and it's still in early access with very little to no updates after very large periods of time. Yet (as you see in point 2) he constantly talks about how he is good and people can learn from his game development. Op could Literally just be mad at that and has nothing to do with the drama. I've never played heartbound couldn't tell you if it sucks.

  1. He is a nepo baby. His own words. He was one at blizzard. This is important for point 2

  2. He has very VERY little development experience yet he talks like he is one on every situation. Look at his LinkedIn. There is youtube videos going over all his past jobs and very little had to do with coding and game development. (If I'm the doorman for a 5 star restaurant it doesn't make me a 5 star chef)

  3. he also dmca'd a creators game for using his voice and appearance when he was not in the game. But an edited tweet of his voice in the game. He still has not reversed the claim.

  4. He has done some very scummy things in WoW. Like run away from fights where he could have helped his team(I've had people explain this to me but don't fully understand as I don't play wow) and threaten a group of people because an enemy agro'd them and said they were terrible people. Turns out it was him and when the video was shown to him he double down even harder that it wasn't his fault.(it was)

  5. And speaking on double down. The man has decided to octuple down. He made a video on stop killing games. A petition to give players the choice to set up their own server for a game at the end of life instead of companies just nuking them. He completely misunderstood. Like read off a page that Said what they are NOT(literally caps and in red) trying to do. He thought that's what they were trying to do. Wouldn't admit that he was reading off the wrong page. And has gone over the same spiel the entire time to try and prove he is right. Every video he realeased hurt the petition. The creator of stop killing games made multiple videos debunking everything he has said and he still won't listen to his hater and his own fans and have a civil discussion and instead bring up lawyers constantly.

If I got anything wrong please correct me. I know there is more but I'm typing this on my phone and the formatting is eh. Thank you.

22 hours ago
Jaded-Sell879

Thats quite a lot of information. I dont understand why anyone would be against letting players have a server after the game is officially axed

22 hours ago
Gweeb22

He thought it meant it would force game studios to keep servers running indefinitely. People keep trying to tell him it's not

Also the initiative is to make single player an option if the games servers go down aswell. Which idk how that isn't already a common place design practice. If I pay 60(now 80 for most) for a game if your servers go down I should still be able to play by myself.

22 hours ago
Lakitel

The initiative is not to make single player games, thats something that piratesoftware has been parroting and is completely wrong about. What the initiative says is to make reasonable end of life plan for multi-player games, but making a single player version is not one of the suggestions.

The big suggestion here is to allow people to host their own servers.

17 hours ago
kawawaplantito

It’s the whole “stop killing games” movement

ELI5; people buy games that require a server to run the game and 5-10 years after launch (or sometimes sooner) the company shuts down the server and you’re stuck with a game you can’t play. The guy who made heartbound (Thor from pirate software) said it shouldn’t be the companies responsibility to make the games playable offline and some people feel very strongly that the companies need to make the games playable even without an online server vs shutting them down and pulling them off digital marketplaces

23 hours ago
hottier1

Sea of Thieves is such a perfect example of a game that's amazing in theory but falls apart without the right group. I learned the hard way that some games just aren't worth buying unless you already have a dedicated crew lined up.

17 hours ago
ElderScarletBlossom

Subnautica: Below Zero. I paid full price, despite having a fairly strict "never pay full price" policy. I loved the first game, didn't want to wait for a sale, and blindly trusted that the second game would also be great. It was not.

1 day ago
andtheyhaveaplan

It was so disappointing. Both characters were annoying, the writing was poor and worst of all the exploration was so unintuitive. The first Subnautica managed to guide me to the next storyline area naturally. Below Zero had everything hidden in a just another cave at the bottom of the ocean and I had to look up how to get there. It felt like fanfiction compared to the original.

21 hours ago
Wind_Yer_Neck_In

If you didn't have beacons to guide you to the lady's underwater base or have it memorised it's nearly impossible to stumble upon. And what's the point of a bus sized submarine if all the spaces deep underwater are tiny?

18 hours ago
batarei4ka
:bm:

Really, really sorry, but Hollow Knight.

22 hours ago
DiamondSpiral

Same here, I had heard amazing things and got it on sale. Beautiful artstyle but just couldn't get into the gameplay, running aimlessly through a maze with no direction wasn't a good experience at all

17 hours ago
dallamamemer
Steam powered V1 ULTRAKILL? :O

Elden ring. I heard raving reviews and the goty, and brought it. Couldn't get into it, and convinced myself I'd like it more if I returned later. Spoiler: I didn't like it more.

Edit: It's sitting in my steam library gathering dust because I waited too long to refund.

1 day ago
majinkoala

This is the kind of games that either clicked or not. I bought it, played 2h, didn't like and never played again. 2 years later I visited a friend playing elden ring. When I got back home I wanted to give it a second try. I loved it so much it's one of my favorite game now lol.

20 hours ago
senn42000

Similar for me, it too me a couple tries, but then it clicked and I played it obsessively for a while.

15 hours ago
PsyduckPsyker

Dragons Dogma 2. I hadn't bought a new PC system yet. I was running a 2080 Super with a (slightly) older i7. Couldn't run the game at all.

So, I got my refund and never went back, even after buying a 4K PC. They don't deserve my money for that garbage,

1 day ago
Jasonicman7435

Me too, but for a different reason. I enjoy Soulslikes, Monster Hunter games, and the more challenging RPGs like Kingdom Come Deliverance, so I thought I would like Dragon's Dogma 2. But the style of gameplay was too tedious and repetitive even for me. The time-gated missions where you can permanently miss quests without even knowing they existed was the final nail in the coffin for me. Not saying the game is bad per se but it definitely is for a different audience

1 day ago
Nick_Gaugh_69

I bought the first chapter of the Walking Dead when it was on sale for $4

One month later, the entire remastered collection was on sale for $5

1 day ago
Electrical_Win6962

No Man's Sky at launch. Looked amazing, promised the universe, but felt super empty and repetitive. To be fair they have improved a lot, but by the time it got good I had already moved on.

1 day ago
Slavinaitor

If you ever decide to get back into it, it’s a totally different game and experience. Like they updated the game to get it fixed then decided to keep the ball rolling like a couple weeks ago they added a whole new update that revamped the way settlements work

I understand being turned off by the game in the beginning but honestly it’s like Minecraft but they actually give a damn about what the player base wants

17 hours ago
hank-kenobi

I managed to get a refund during the launch.

But then ended up buying it back years later. And on different platforms.

Love that game.

16 hours ago
user-1037572_912730

It’s a hot take, but for me was baldurs gate 3. I’m not saying it’s bad game whatsoever I just went in expecting more from it and I could just never get it to click but I like the devs for not making it overpriced and actually supporting their communities, great game just not for me sadly.

18 hours ago
Historical-Rule

Starfield. To this day I'm regretting giving Todd any money for his lies.

1 day ago
Artidek

For me its dragons dogma dark arisen. Saw some videos saying its the best game youve never played and how theres a cult following for the game but when i went to go play it it was so incredibly slow and clunky and didnt feel like i was going anywhere. I also didnt enjoy the pawn system which made me know for sure that i wasnt gonna get dragons dogma 2. A whole lot of people say the game doesnt get good till endgame which is crazy to me bc i was playing for 10 hours and am still in the beginning (sort of) and youre telling me i have to basically beat the game to start enjoying it? I might still play it down the line on and off but for now its probably my most regretted purchase bc of just how its like playing only anime filler for the entire game and then i get to enjoy it like what?

1 day ago
DisdudeWoW

Nah theyre twats sure bitterblac ks is amazing but if you arent enjoying the basegame you just wont enjoy bitterblack.

18 hours ago
Dry_Wing_9440

Oxygen Not Included.

I haven't seen my family in days...

1 day ago
King_McCool

Starfield, what a joke of a game

1 day ago
G2Gankos

I was told the game gets good 10 hours in, and at 11 hours, i was still waiting

20 hours ago
Pocket1176

it gets good 50 hours in, actually. Trust me, play 50 hours of boring nothing of a game, after THAT this is peak fiction.

19 hours ago
KingKingsons

I was so excited about this game, but how can a game released this decade still have loading screens to enter different buildings/rooms? The NPC’s also ONLY talk about their function to the main character.

Cyberpunk released its DLC soon after and it reminded me how alive an open world can feel and I haven’t played the game since.

19 hours ago
cyfer04

Don't really regret buying Sea of Thieves but I don't wanna play it anymore. Got 200+ hrs on it with friends. Then tried solo. Getting spawn camped on a sloop by 3 pirates while full of loot is just not fun.

I regret buying Starfield but not because it sucks. I mean I did like it. But it's too big. Too many things to do and I don't enough real world time to focus on 1 game. Imagine I only have 3 hrs a day to play and let's say Starfield has 120 hrs to play. That's 40 days straight. I'll be bored of it eventually which I am now.

1 day ago
justusesomealoe

Postal 4. I got it in early access and thought "it'll get interesting and good as they develop it". It got neither interesting nor good. It's just boring.

23 hours ago
Robot_boy_07

Imma be honest, spiderman 2018. I bought it on launch and was kinda underwhelmed for a 80 dollar game, I should have waited for a sale

1 day ago
entropies

This game took me 2 years before I mustered the willpower to finish it. The swinging is fun but the side content can get repetitive

1 day ago
FighterJock412

The side stuff was repetitive, but the swinging, traversal, and combat is just so damn fun that I was able to overlook its faults.

1 day ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

is it that game that was originally a playstation exclusive when it first launched?

1 day ago
Robot_boy_07

Yea

1 day ago
ls952

Nothing will ever compare to the OG Spider-man 2 movie game for me.

18 hours ago
Rickjamesb_

Ever I don't know. But recently Dune Awakening and it's not even close. Was sold as a great Survival PvE until a lackluster Rust endgame. Whomever think that survival is good is delusional.

1 day ago
SmartAd5067

Had a lot of fun until deep desert. Who tf wants to sit in an empty area mining ore nodes over and over

23 hours ago
squidly413

Played 8 hours or so and couldn’t get over how janky the gameplay felt, hoping some cook time makes it better..

1 day ago
StarLord1228

Valheim. I wish I could gift it to someone who likes it. I hate this game.

1 day ago
CosmicHorrorCowboy

I just got it last week and haven’t been able to put it down

1 day ago
Juraeloffs

As someone who just beat the game in its current state, I hope you enjoy it! While some people might hate it, others like me love it

1 day ago
Ahuru_Duncan

Its one of those games where playing it with few mates is amazing. Personally i find the solo gameplay slightly boring. With 1-3 mates in the other hand, my god how fun it is.

20 hours ago
StarLord1228

I think that’s my issue. I love to play solo, that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much as others do.

16 hours ago
guska

I loved Valheim, but something about the pixelated textures stresses my eyes

22 hours ago
KoburaCape

There's a mod for that!

20 hours ago
Running_Oakley

Battlebit, total flavor of the week moment. The only thing going for it was 254 players and proximity voice chat. It had nothing to do with battlefield and yet they all said it was basically battlefield. Then influencers stopped making videos about it and everyone left.

1 day ago
Taolan13

people didnt leave because infleuncers dropped the game, influencers dropped the game because people left after the dev did multiple back to back dumb moves.

but, there was recently an update from the devs (a fucking YEAR later) that they've been silently grinding behind the scenes on a massive overhaul to the game that promises to address all of the player complaints and more.

so, maybe battlebit will come back. or maybe it's a hail mary from a failed dev to breathe life back into the game and it wont be nearly as good as promised

16 hours ago
CSknoob

Interestingly I did (and do) actually enjoy the game. I do feel like it has many of the gameplay elements that define Battlefield games, no?

20 hours ago
uglyafdood

Mass Effect LE simply because I can’t get it to fucking launch. I have tried every video I can to get it to work but I’m just stuck in a “validating game” loop. Fuck EA and their god damn app.

1 day ago
Brvcx

I had a similar experience but got mine to work rather simple again.

It sucks people have thia experience, cause when it all works (like it did when I played it on console) it's a game worth the money. I've done 6 complete runs since it's launch, I think.

Edit: this sub has run it's course. It's the prime example of a gaming sub. Such negativity, it's insane.

1 day ago
dafotia

lol, i also regret sea of thieves purchase. such an unbelievably boring game, and thats even with friends.

1 day ago
Sarkastikor

A whole lot of them, not because I don't like them. But because I literally can't get myself to play any of them cause i'm too exhausted everyday.

1 day ago
New_Collection5295

Civ…7? Whatever the latest one is. Bought it to play with friends then they decided they hated it. I wasn’t loving either.

15 hours ago
MrDankyStanky

Probably the newest Stalker game, spent like $70 on it and it was around 5 or 6 hours before I realized how shitty it was. Stuck with it now.

1 day ago
Sarkastikor

Question. Like, is it BAD. Or do you not like it?

Should I just head to the old STALKER games instead of a shitty excuse of a revival?

1 day ago
JD4Destruction
More Harem games plz

Fallout 76 is the only game I’ve ever given a negative review. I spent more time hunting for ammo than actually having fun, so I quit after 10 hours.

1 day ago
Decent_Active1699

If you still have the game I just thought I'd let you know it's really improved in recent years. Still might not be your cup of tea tho

16 hours ago
CarolTheCleaningLady

Literally every enemy you kill drops ammo that you need

20 hours ago
Sotales

Now, but that was not the case at launch.

15 hours ago
Zenjutsu

MK1 - It just runs like shit on my 4090. I kept fussing with the settings trying to fix it but it's too late to refund now.

Stellaris - Every 6 months I boot up Stellaris like "This time I’ll understand it." Ten minutes in, I'm managing 47 popups, my scientists are dead, my economy is screaming, and a void dragon just annexed my homeworld. Feels like I need a PhD in Galactic Empire Management in order to play this game.

DayZ – Booted it up, saw 8,000 servers with wildly different rules, mods, maps, and vibes.
Spent 2 hours Googling “best beginner server” and reading forum arguments from 2019.
Eventually closed the game out of sheer decision paralysis. Didn’t even starve to death...just quit out of confusion.

Street Fighter 6 - Bought it a couple months ago for $40, was actually having fun.
Then they dropped the Fighters Edition, which is the base game plus all DLC, for $60.
No upgrade path, no discount, just “lol buy it again.” Loved the game, but I’m not paying full price twice. So, I uninstalled out of spite. GG Capcom.

Chivalry 2 - First few matches were pure chaos and I was loving it.
Total noob, no clue what I’m doing just swinging wildly and trying not to get my head chopped off. Then I get kicked mid-match for “bad teamwork” and banned from queuing for 30 minutes. Like bro, I just bought the game. Let me be stupid in peace.
Instant uninstall. Never touched it again.

18 hours ago
Akagi_An

Rocket League & Fall Guys. Even though I bought them on Steam and could play them just fine Epic goes and takes them as exclusives. Now you need an Epic account to play them which I'm never going to do again. It should be illegal to pull this stuff.

23 hours ago
Fit-Bill-7004

Disco elysium played for 3 hours and Uninstaller guess not my cup of tea

23 hours ago
GreenLynx1111

This one's mine. It's ok, not a bad game, per se. Quirky, decent writing for an RPG. But to me, boring. No character development. No action. Not much of anything at all except that quirky, decent writing.

What gets me is how people in the industry have put it on such an incredible pedestal. It's literally on a lot of critics' Top 10 list of greatest games of ALL TIME. Some say it is the greatest RPG of all time.

I disagree.

It's ok.

It's nowhere NEAR a game like BG3, Skyrim, Witcher 3.

But a lot of critics place Disco above those games which is absurd.

15 hours ago
scanguy25

Victoria 3

The game is/was just not done and was a huge step down from Victoria 2 plus all DLC.

It's gotten better with patches but right you can buy it for 70% off. So fuck me for being a core customer and preordering I guess.

1 day ago
0nlyDDG

Never buy a paradox game day one

23 hours ago
scanguy25

As someone who has played PDX games since Hoi2 this is my creed. But I had been looking forward to Vic3 for a decade so I broke my rule and preordered.

23 hours ago
Rifleman-5061

Rainbow Six Siege. Got to so I have a multiplayer game I can play casually, but the only game mode I could play was casual quick match, which wasn't the full experience (Had to get more ingame XP to play normal casual and nobody plays the matchmaking that the game wants you to play when you first start), and that was full of people who played WAY to competitively for my beginner level, so I didn't really play it. Then I pick up the Master Chief Collection, so that's multiplayer solved (I have never actually touched its multiplayer though. I'm not much of a PvP person. The only real online I've been is Darktide). Then I find out a couple of weeks ago that it's now free, so yeah, I very much regret buy Siege.

1 day ago
Turbulent-Ad4308

One of the reasons I don't touch Rainbow Six Siege

23 hours ago
ShopKeeper1999

Fallout 4

I loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but the Level cap always bothered me. I was so excited when they announced that Fallout 4 will not have a Level Cap. Oh boy was i disappointed when i saw what they did to Fallout. The dialogue system was a joke and the game itself was not fun at all, It didn't feel like Fallout, it was a Shooter with RPG MEchanics in a Wasteland setting. I quit after ~20 Hours and never played it again....

1 day ago
GerDii

My most played bethesda game for one major reason, modded settlement building is really fun

21 hours ago
ShopKeeper1999

Oh yeah the settlement building... I didn't Like that either...

21 hours ago
G2Gankos

I think that was the last straw for me too, because that’s the last thing i remember doing before i closed that game for the last time a decade ago

20 hours ago
LookyPeter

Dragon dogma 2 badly optimized and gameplay kinda sucked ass. Played too much to refund. Was pretty hyped for it

22 hours ago
Pll_dangerzone

Black Skylands. My only EA bust. The gameplay is OK but it feels like such a waste of what could have been a very unique and fun game. The story is drastically different from EA to 1.0 and they did away with a bulk of skyship customization that was there in EA. And the ending was absolutely awful.

1 day ago
Vixrotre

PUBG. It looked really fun when it was really popular and every youtuber I knew played it with their friends.

I had no one to play with and learned I don't enjoy battle royales. But I spent 4h in the game so it was too late for a refund.

1 day ago
StooNaggingUrDum

Pacific Drive.

What made me leave was needing to gather items to complete the quest(it's a fetch-quest game where you drive a car). But I mistakenly destroyed the items I needed and there's a limited supply and the level design is garbage and the gameplay is boring and if you play it on console then you can't get your refund. Never play this game, there's a reason nobody talks about it. It's just a half baked game and Im so mad I fell for this scam.

The adverts are nothing like the game. It's literally false advertising.

23 hours ago
Dramatic-Vegetable69

Ahh sea of thieves, my dream pirate game ruined (for me) because of the unavoidable pvp

17 hours ago
monochromeorc

Starfield.

And not just because of why everyone complains about it, I had a good run through and finished it and mostly enjoyed it even.

But it was one of the first times I paid full retail price on release, and I bought the deluxe edition, which I havnt felt like going back to play the expansion mission(s), if they are out, and at this point im unlikely to.

Never again will i buy on release at full price for anything

16 hours ago
chuchucha
https://steam.pm/3t4iea

Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, unoptimized pos

1 day ago
daneflys

Detroit: Become Human

I'm not sure who this game appeals to, but I'd rather watch paint dry than try to keep playing it.

1 day ago
garamond89

As one of the people this game appeals to, sorry you didn’t enjoy it!

1 day ago
Knightset1

Nightreign. Extremely repetitive, got bored 7 hours in

1 day ago
Ledinax
:dota2:

FF14's integration with Steam is not worth it, trust me on this one.

1 day ago
Nocturne3570

Starfield

1 day ago
GurlWhy

Hello kitty island adventure really regret it because it’s boring and I can’t do anything I would like to normally do in a life sim game. I know this is very controversial 😂

Graveyard keeper because i hate the time system, hate the plot line, I had it early access and it was a battle to get through it.

Spider-Man 2 I returned it within 20 mins of buying it because as soon as I started the first sequence all I saw was floating heads and right through Peters hair 😵‍💫 I have a few others especially the early access games

1 day ago
LyzenGG

The Stomping Land, Reign of Kings. A bunch of EA games that were a scam.

1 day ago
_Goin_In_Dry_

It was Payday 3 (though it's much better now) until FBC: Firebreak came out. Me, wife, and buddies love PvE co-op games. We also love the Remedy-verse. Firebreak seemed like an instant win but it turned out to be a major disappointment none of us have touched since the day after launch.

1 day ago
Quetzalcoatl__

Techtonica. I was a nice game in EA. Not perfect but aiming in a nice direction. Then devs released a crappy 1.0 and abandonned the project...

1 day ago
WM_

I was obsessed with Life is Feudal when it was announced but at the time could not afford it. When I was able, it sucked so much and later turned out to be such a money-grab.

23 hours ago
AlgaeWafers

Back for blood. It was a damn scam

22 hours ago
GoodAtDodging

Palworld. I'm usually very good about resisting the game of the month but EVERYONE of my rl friends had it and I played just over 2 hours with them. Game was horrible I feel like a sucker.

21 hours ago
LulzTigre

R e p o

I have no one to play with

20 hours ago
Automatic-Calendar10

New World. Me and 5 other friends bought the game and were really excited to play.

On launch, the servers were overloaded and I remember being told by the devs to join any free server and play there for a while as server transfer would be a thing. So, it was 2 of us playing together on a server and the rest playing on different servers, some even in different regions.

When server transfer became a thing, we found out that it was only possible to transfer to a server in the same region (region transfers came, but was a bit too late).

Then came the skins.

20 hours ago
pjammin5

New world Aeternum. It was $50. My friends wanted me to play it with them. I knew I wouldn’t like it. I played it for 4 hours. Long enough to not get a steam refund.

17 hours ago
gojoZZ

The elder scrolls online. U need a whole 6 hours to download it in the launcher. Now you cant refund it if you play it and you dont like it cuz u basically “played the game for 6 hours” cuz the hours count on steam cuz u launched the launcher like u r playing

17 hours ago
HamfistTheStruggle

Diablo 4.

My friend was super into diablo and was talking up diablo 4 so much before release that he talked me into buying the game on pre order for early release.

The main story was super short and we only ever played together like 2 times. I couldn't find interest in the daily grind for making an op character, felt too much like an MMO which I've never liked. Huge waste of 80$ I think I have maybe 25hrs in it total.

15 hours ago
Suliman34

Breathedge. Good survival crafting space game. But changes into a walking simulator in the last third.

1 day ago
lefr3nch
:hl:

No regrets here as it was free on epic a while back. Haven't touched it yet but am sure now I will understand this comment better when I get to the last third of the game lol.

1 day ago
OPandNERFpls

GTAV. It was a month before the Epic free GTAV. I really don't like how its multiplayer works

1 day ago
Feeling-Nerve-1184 OP

i really like this game, but like you, i’m not a fan of multiplayer online modes. i’ve logged hundreds of hours mainly because i enjoy driving around the city when i’m bored

1 day ago
kawawaplantito

Look up fivem there’s better multiplayer modded servers then the base game tbh

23 hours ago
CaptainWheeze

Starfield. I even 100%ed it just to have another game 100%ed but if i could take back the cost or even just the time spent on it i would in a heart beat. Fun game for about 2 or 3 hours. Not worth my 209 hrs plus i lost the 100% anyway when the dlc came out.

1 day ago