10 Great Video Games (With Terrible Storylines)

Helmed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, The Evil Within was a 2014 survival horror title that felt a bit too much like a retread of Resident Evil 4 in the minds of some players. Yet, while RE4 was campy and hilarious in places, The Evil Within was stone-cold serious, and it suffered as a result.

The plot made little to no sense, and, even when all the cards were laid on the table near the end of the game, the overarching narrative still came across as little more than a reason to chain a bunch of spooky environments together.

Cerebral and involved, The Evil Within and its sequel may have benefited from a more straight-forward plot. Instead, players were treated to the story of an Umbrella-like organization intent on developing a biomechanical hyperreality which they could use to rule the world before the man they placed in charge of it betrays them and corrupts everything.

The concept is already hard to grasp, and its made even more difficult by the fact that almost nothing is ever directly told to the player. Most who saw this game through to the end were probably still left scratching their heads as the credits rolled.