14 Worst Video Games Of 2016

3. Almost Every Monthly PS Plus Game

At this stage, the amount of times you check the monthly offerings for PS Plus, sneer and close the Store again drastically outnumber those where you're given something genuinely amazing.

The issue is, no top tier publisher wants to give their games away for free, especially on PlayStation where the console is still raking in the dough. It's why we keep getting mostly forgettable platformers or kid-centric indie titles - hell, it's why we got Letter Quest in November; a game that plays exactly the same on your PS4 Pro as it does on a two year-old smartphone.

The issue isn't that these games aren't very good (Letter Quest itself is fantastically addictive), it's that none of them are remotely satisfying showcases of what a PlayStation Plus membership should bring. It's very clear that Sony are still way too far out in front to care as far as the console race goes, happy to pepper the masses with arbitrary freebies for the sake of upholding that part of the PS Plus membership deal.

Look to Microsoft's output and you'll find triple-A games like Sunset Overdrive and WWE 2K16 right next to a continually-impressive catalogue of backwards compatible 360 titles released alongside, every single month. By comparison, Sony expect fans to fork out additional subscription fees to play their favourite games on the forever-stuttering PlayStation Now service.

Hopefully 2017 can give PlayStation owners a reason to stay with Sony, otherwise the solid momentum Microsoft continue to accrue may just win the war after all.