10 Worst Open-World Games Of All Time

2. Risen 3: Titan Lords

Another series which has continued to chug on despite never releasing a game that's actually been any good, Risen 3: Titan Lords was the cherry on the cake of this notoriously terrible pirate-themed franchise.

While a lot of open worlds on this list feel empty, Risen 3 is completely bereft of ideas and imagination in every department. Boasting combat clunkier than the ships you travel on, the very act of playing the sandbox title feels like a punishment forced on the player, while the fragmented story and repetitive enemies don't entice you to dig deeper into its admittedly grand world.

Not only a technical disaster though, Risen 3's RPG elements are some of the most needlessly complex the genre has ever seen. Just about every character has an ability they can teach you or something to sell, but the sequel never communicates which items and upgrades you can actually use, or what you need to do to gain access to them - and that's if you can even remember which character had which thing in the first place.

Cumbersome, rote, and unimaginative, this third (and seemingly final) release in the swashbuckling franchise fails not only as an open world game, but as an RPG as well.