The Great Steam Challenge: A Quest to Find the Worst Game

As a curious individual, I recently embarked on an intriguing challenge: to find the worst game on Steam. This endeavor wasn't about seeking out games that are intentionally designed to be bad, but rather about discovering titles that had all the potential to be good yet ultimately fell short of expectations.

When setting out for this challenge, I wanted to approach it with a clear set of criteria in mind. First and foremost, I required the game to cost money – an investment that would allow me to be thoroughly disappointed by its outcome. Furthermore, I sought a title that not only broke the mold but also hit on various aspects of the gameplay itself. It wasn't about simply playing a buggy game; instead, I was looking for something truly subpar in its core mechanics.

The search began, and my first target was a game called Drug Wars. As I delved into this title, I discovered some fascinating facts behind it. Originally known by a different name, Drug Wars garnered significant hype upon its release. However, the game itself failed to live up to expectations – an outcome that left me intrigued.

The Game: A Hyped but Disappointing Title

Drug Wars was once known by another name, but this change came after the game's announcement in 2017. The game promised a thrilling experience, with users engaging in an open world set amidst the struggles of addiction and recovery. However, it seems that the reality did not align with expectations.

As I continued to explore Drug Wars, it became evident that the developers had indeed invested considerable effort into creating this game. Unfortunately, their hard work was ultimately undone by poor execution – a case of potential squandered. The gameplay mechanics themselves were marred by numerous issues, leaving me pondering what could have been if only the developers had taken more care in addressing these problems.

This discovery sparked my determination to continue searching for even more egregious examples of games gone wrong. With each new title I explored, I aimed to uncover those that not only failed to meet expectations but also possessed certain characteristics that made their downfall all the more remarkable.

The Pursuit Continues: A Quest for the Worst Game

And so, my quest for the worst game on Steam continued, with each new discovery offering a fresh perspective on what can go terribly wrong in the world of gaming. With each title I encountered, I sought to understand not only how they failed but also why – was it due to poor design choices or inadequate testing? The answer to these questions was often less important than the sheer audacity and tenacity required to create a game that was so thoroughly unsuccessful.

As this journey progresses, my criteria remain unchanged. I will continue to seek out games that have all the potential to be great yet ultimately fall short, leaving me with a sense of disappointment and frustration. Whether through poor gameplay mechanics or an unfulfilling experience, I am driven by curiosity to uncover these hidden gems – or rather, the pitfalls that make them such notable failures.

Ultimately, this challenge serves as a reminder that even in the world of gaming, not every project is bound to succeed. By exploring and critiquing some of the worst games on Steam, we can gain valuable insights into what goes wrong and why. This journey may be an exploration of failure, but it's also one of discovery – and I'm excited to see where this challenge will take me next.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enSo I recently set myself the challenge of finding the worst game on Steam.I do this on occasion just because I'm curious of what is actually at the bottom of the barrel andwhen I set out for this challengeI didn't want to just go looking for a game that was meant to be bad, because there are games like that all over theplace. They're made specifically to be bad and that can sometimes be funny,but often time is just crap for the sake of being crap.What I wanted to find, was a gameThat had all the hope of being good and then despite the developers' best efforts turned out to be the worst.Thing. Ever. And there's different criteria for that. Number one, I wanted it to actually cost moneyI wanted to actually spend money on this so I could be disappointed by the end result and number twoI wanted something that kind of hit on a few different topics. It wasn't just game breakingly badNo, I didn't want something that was super buggy, incredibly just crap.I wanted something that was actually in the gameplay itselfterrible(Mark gulps dramatically hard)And I found itI really found it.So the first victim of my search was a game called Drug Wars, and I actually came across some interesting -uh-trivia behind this one. This was a hyped up gameBut if you haven't heard of drug wars, you wouldn't be surprised. It wasn't originally called that. It was called\"Merchants of Brooklyn\". It came out in 2009 and was this hyped up game that some people even pre-ordered apparentlyBut when it came out it was sounbelievlably (sic) bad that they changed the name to try to appeal to something more and I couldn't even play it so I can't judge itbecause the game wouldn't even load up for mebut some of the accompanying material and gameplay footage, which you'll find here in front of youcan showcase that it's not exactly the best gamethe world, but by its Steam rating of 33% it's also not the worst.So I gave it a pass.The other game that I tried to play was called \"Tunnel Rats\". And this one was avery low rated game on Steam like the other one at 34 percent,but this one was about the gripping reality of the Vietnam Warshowcasing a side of it that didn't work, but unfortunately after a brief opening segment, it didn't work as wellSo I was left withuh, another game on my list and I had a few more but I don't think I needed to go any farther.This game is Skyscraper Simulator. And you think that this game would be cool!It looks like \"Euro Truck Simulator\" those types of games. And, and oddly enoughthis game is made by someone who makes those types of games with other games likeAgricultural Simulator (2011) Industry Simulator (Empire)Agricultural Simulator 2013Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming which has a 12%.Farming Giant which has a 19% and then this game which has the lowest scoreI've ever seen on Steam at a whoppingSIX PERCENT (intense music play in the background)and I'm sure there is lowerrated games but not many.There can't be many. Other people said things such as this:\"Never played it because it always crashes the desktop after the dev logo, 8/10 because I like my wallpaper\"\"I love this gameMy doctor gave me a prescription for Ambien to help me fall asleep,but I just fire up Skyscraper Simulator instead and save so much money on prescriptions to help me sleepThanks Skyscraper Simulator!\"\"While playing I decided to wash the dishes. It was more entertaining than playing the game.\"\"No one even drives the stupid things. 1 Smelly Sandy out of 10. My immersion was broken.\"\"This might be my shortest review ever...This might be a game you enjoy if: you enjoy watching nothing happening at various different speeds of playAppreciate the novelty of trucks bouncing back and forth but nothing else happens. You find 10 workers needed to drive a cement truck is feasibleWatching paint dry is your ultimate hobbyhoweverYou shouldn't buy it if you were hoping for a fun Tycoon game you expect a more modern take of Sim TowerYou likeF U N.\"\"Graphics from 1980, hired19,000 engineers and lost all my 25 million euros even though I couldn't see a single engineer19/10\"\"Lost all my money because I hired 10,000 workers when I only needed 259/10 would play again\"\"I've been reserving this designation for a very special once-in-a-lifetime game. And I think this is it.Literally the worst game I've ever playedRecommending it for a once-in-a-lifetime experience\"\"Truly shows what it's like to be a skyscraper.\"\"Slightly less boring than staring at a wall3.4 HOURS!!??!!\"\"This was bought as a joke, but no jokeI loved itexcept it didn't start up for the first nine months and the save button doesn't work getting that fine balance betweendelivering construction stuffed and building and wow!\"20.9 hours on recordSo you have to take into accountThis game has a six percent rating with all of these joke thumbs upThat is how bad this game is.That being said IPlayed it (intense music plays in the background)I played through it, I went at it withPositivity in my mind, I went at it without any negativity in my soulI thought that I was gonna give it an honest try and I can honestly say...(cue sad music) *violins*I was warned.I was warned...I really was warned. :cSo uhm...if any of you areDoing anything that requires you to stay awakeI recommend that you don't watch the next few minutes of this video because it only gets more boring from hereSo here is skyscraper simulatorEnjoy...auhgh... There we go!That's good stuff. Alright,Owh!Welcome to Skyscraper Simulator. This is the city view, in this view you can buy sell and rent propertiesOkay...oOoOohAhhhhhHHHHwOOOOOhHooH!!!!!!!!!!!I can really see deep into the earth. I'm not sure whyI-.. Why is the music like that? Oh, whatever I'll go with I'll go with Baxter. I like the name Ba-. Okay...*confusion*What the hell...Wha-Oh!Well, why isn't it shown then?? Alright whatever I'll...I'll.. constru- OhhhOh okay. Height, low on funds, okay. Well, let's not do thatAhhhhAHUhhUhhahEyueuh?Sure?Al-AlrightYou need to switch to the construction site view?Oh!Silly Samantha, Pookie Aubrey, Mammoth Samuel, Mammoth Anna, Strong Lillian,Crude Jaden, Silly Sophia, Silly Nicholas,Small Robert, Narrow Olivia.Whuhht?Page up. Left, Right.Plus... (+) Minus.. (-)What.. The fucking...OhhhohKAAAAy.. ????UhhhhhhhhhhhhhBuy Silly Samantha?Narrow Joseph?McDylan?Im'ma go with Big LillianTiny Haley.Wet Jack?UHgHEghsth (fanfic flashbacks)Giga Natalie??Alright...Silly Luke! Lets go with Quiet Hannah, I guess?Alright, what do we got?What do the arrows mean?Excavation Stage, Foundation stage, construction stage. Start, first buy one excavator and one dumperWell, I did. Assign some workers to the administration team to reduce monthly-*panics in confusion* hWha-Human Resources! There we go.Engineers!Foremen. Workers.Foundation?Ministrative?Ad- Administrauhtive (??) HmIs this Adding to..???Are we going??? Ohhh.. Hi? Hello?Ahh Oh oh- Ohhuhh...Wooowauh...OhhhhhhOuuooh... Nooo..W-What are you doing? (their job?)What are you-What are you doing!? Are you alri- What is in there?!WhOaIt's empty... Oh...Okay...Administrative team.Maintenance crew..AhhhWaiting for excavation two percent doneOkay, I guess I need more excavators???Pookie Aubrey? Mammoth Samuel?Yeah okay. Right 'n them dump trucks, I guess. Soft Aidan, okay?STRONG Christopher!Das good.. I'll get the others later. I-I guess. Okay... There's some more.They're not- Oh there- Oh, there they go!Oh look at him, go!?*More confusion...*There.. we need more workers.As far as I'm understanding-No- Wha-Okay, that's... good I guess? Okay more on Pookie AubreyOkay, ahhhh ahhH~OkayWe're doing great work.I think. We're flying now! There we go!There we go! That's how you do it! Okay!When does the fun start? (N E V E R) Oh my God...This is somehow worse than watching this happen in real time.This is somehow like if you were standing outside of a construction site and you were watching them build it,that would be more interesting than what's happening right now. Okay, I'm not gonna get critical about this game just yet because I don't know-What they're doing? Okay, hang on..OhhhhWait, okay! The dumpy truck-ohs..They don't have...workers either..We don't have enough workers. We need more workers.Let's just get a bunch of workers!That sounds pretty good. I like the sound of that. I like workers~Workers are good! :DWorkers are- Because I- let me see if I can snatch one of these things.There we go, grab you. Oooh, yeah, let's crank that up. Now we should be-OOOOOhHhHhHLook at that go! I think it's better. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think that's better. Is that better??That what you call better?? And again, why can I see so deep??!!!How- it- uestyfho- Am I gonna be digging down there? Am I gonna find some bodies buried under here? (likely) Okay, whatever.I guess I can start planning for the future, but I don't want to. Soft Samuel get in here.Uhh Swift Samantha, Smart Alexa, 'here you go. I don't know why we did that. I've got plenty of moneyI mean money doesn't seem to be a big issue in this endeavor. If I knew it was this EASY to build a skyscraperI would have done it myself a long time ago. Okay, I thinkWe- We're getting close to done with excavation, which is great. Right?Boom!Done!Wahoo. Why'd we pause? Okay, where did that come from? Did that descend from the heavens and just smash right into there?Get more workers in here. Foundation is underway.I don't know what they're doing.Oooh You're filling it back in- we just DUG THAT OUT!WE JUST- We just dug that out!Didn't we? All right. I don't know. I guess there's- I guess that's supposed to be cement but it-I just feel like all the hard work that I just did is now been laid away..I feel like you're just kind of like mocking me now... isn't is there some way to see like..My actual oh, I see. Okay. Here we go. Okay, I got you so I can see yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.Yeah, one two three. There we go. Okay. Yeah, we're-We're- we're gonna be going now. Does it take away? Good!It takes away the other workers so I can just crank these up to maximum. Right? Whys your performance awful Crude Christian?! (lol)What ya- Screw you Crude Christian! Give me a better one. Tiny Jacob. Yeah. Tiny Jacob get in hereI don't know. Is there any punishment for actually hiring this many things? I-I have no idea.Okay..There we go.I don't know what we did.What are we doing...What are we doing?Oh...But what does that even mean you're just raising up this big weird obelisk that appeared out of the sky. What is that?Okay, whatever. I guess we're almost done and then we're halfway through the- finishing the buildingIs that what I'm supposed to- is that what I'm understanding about this we're halfway don-. OhhGreat....Wait, is that it?! Wait is that?Wait, is this the whole thing?But then why did we why did we dig that hole?also, what did you f-What...Oh There- There you go...All right, let's fill them up, I guess. Trying to fill up some more-Workers I guess? we're not building. Why are we not building?What do- do- what do we need? Waiting on what? Waiting on- waiting on what?What do we need? You're not telling me what we need you it's just glowing red?! (I think he's done)Job, steel skeleton? Oh, is that what we're 'posta...?OhhHhHhOh my god, this is the whole game....oh my god... This is the whole game..*tick tick tick*OhhakayI don't know what I'm supposed to do besides wait here...*tick tick*I uh...I try- I'm honestly, I'm trying to find what it is. I'm supposed to bedoing... there must be some nascentsatisfaction factor toThis concept, right?? There-there- There has to be right? There would have to be.would anyone play this game in normal speed?? *X-Files theme plays*If you're playing this game in normal speedIt's already been one year, forty four weeks, and three days on the dot. Every hour is one second. So if I...Bust out my calculator here.*typey typey type type*All the time that we just spent here if you were playing this in normal speed,You'd be sitting here for four and a half hours.*SHOCK*Just gonna.. play on fast... I still don't understand why we dug that gigantic hole for this buildingI feel like I'm also not playing the game, right?Because I probably hired way too many workers. And I probably haven't been tossing them around efficiently betweenmachines, I haven't been buying the right machines, but I've still got 14 million euros. And if I am playing it wrongthen you would have to play this a lot more slowlybecause you wouldn't have as many workers working on your skyscraper,And therefore it would take longer.*nods of uncertainty*There's nothing else for me to do at this point, I'm literally just sitting aroundI mean, I want to see it done. I want to see it doneI'm hoping that there's gonna be some kind of a satisfaction out of it.I mean, maybe you could multitask and do other projects at once but I don't think I have the money for it, I guess...And we're really moving fast now and that's good. This is the most direct equivalent to watching paint dryI've ever seen in a game and I'm not trying to say that, like I'm not coming at this game trying to be insulting about it.I mean look at what paint drying isyou look at a wall and you wait and watch as minute changes happen over a long period of time.And compare that to what I'm doing in this game.DoneIt took two years, 17 weeks and 16 hours.*deep breath*Alright.What now?So there's no management system of.. rent or?Ah there.It's just plus or minus again...Soo...Wha-..Da...?This...Am I making money?? and- I'm- I did- I'm- I am. I made money... okay?So I guess the next thing to do would be to....Build another one.Oh..But that's too expensive.. I can't, I don't have enough money..I have to wait until I get money.huh..Okay, Alright I think I'm good. I think-I think- I think I'm good.Leader board?!No one's on the leader board. Okay?I'm good.I'm real good.So that was, arguably the worst game on Steam and I say that not frombroken controls, because oddly enough the controls worked. Not from glitchy gameplay, because at the end of it-I did build a skyscraper and I guess it was a simulation of what it's like to be a skyscraperBut at the same time it wasn't fun. It wasn't a happy time. I had no idea why I was even there...And...frankly...I'm sad that I wasted my life trying to figure out why they dug that big of a hole for that small of a skyscraperbut either way that isthe worst game that I found on Steam.I'm sure that I'll find another, because I'm sure that you guys know about worse games on Steam.So if you know of a game that's worse than this one, Let me know down in the comments below.I will go through the process of reviewing it myself and I will show you.How probably right you are. *Outro music starts to play silently*So thank you everybody so much for watching. And as always I will see you in the next video.BUH BYE!!!(Closed captioning by these lovely people:)Jax Master,Nightfangy ^-^RainingFoxes (do I deserve to be added...? I just added a few things here and there)...@RainingFoxes Yes you do :)Maddy Reagan <3(Alex made final edits, and fell asleep during the game)\n"