10 Video Games Probably Made Out Of Spite

2. Hatred

In 2014, Destructive Creations announced their new isometric shooter Hatred, which cast players as a misanthropic mass shooter tasked with slaughtering as many helpless civilians as possible.

Hatred was immediately controversial, prompting director Jarosław Zieliński to retort that the game was intended to be a reaction to the perceived surge of political correctness in games, challenging conventional notions of both morality and art.

Hatred was given the ultra-rare "Adults Only (AO)" rating by the ESRB and even temporarily removed from Steam Greenlight before the company returned it with an apology from Valve co-founder and president himself, Gabe Newell.

Ultimately Hatred was largely panned by critics but went on to become a best-seller on Steam, with a "Mostly Positive" consensus from over 9,000 purchases.

As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Hatred may not be a very good game, but as a rebuke against good taste, it clearly struck a chord with a lot of people.