10 Awesome Recent Video Games That Didn’t Deserve To Bomb

10. Guardians Of The Galaxy

Considering how the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been one of the most valuable entertainment properties of the last decade, you’d think we would’ve had more high-budget video game tie-ins or adaptations.

Still, even though they wouldn’t be using the actors' likenesses, there was excitement when Square Enix started working on several Marvel products.

Square claimed that, even though the game came in at #2 on release (only behind Fifa 2022), Guardians of the Galaxy had “undershot” sales expectations which is a shame and sadly a common situation with the company’s Western releases.

There’s a couple of reasons why this might be that include a marketing campaign and presence that was perhaps a little too overbearing and the fact that it was coming not all that long off the back of Marvel’s Avengers. That game also undersold Square-Enix’s projections, and the critical reaction to Avengers was a lot more divisive.

It’s a shame because Guardians doesn’t have nearly the amount of issues that Avengers had with its grinding, games-as-a-service approach, and was a more streamlined affair geared towards a a good, linear campaign.

Despite the lack of the big screen actors, Guardian’s characters were all well written and identifiable; a goofy but human story amid high-octane combat.