20 Recent Video Games EVERYONE Knew Would Suck

While there's every possibility for a video game to surprise us all with its unexpected quality, it's also fair to say that players have become extremely adept at sniffing out a dud ahead of time.

And considering how pricey AAA games now are on launch day, who can blame them?

Sometimes everything about a game pre-release just screams "this is going to suck!," from a reveal trailer to extensive gameplay footage, interviews with the developer, and everything else in-between.

And again, while games might occasionally shock us all by turning out far better than expected, that absolutely wasn't the case with these 20 horrid recent video games.

Each of them left alarm bells ringing from the jump for one of many reasons, and so when they finally released to poor scores from critics and general players alike, it was damn-near impossible to be surprised.

It would've been great if these games had us all eating crow, but it just wasn't on the cards. 

Everything told us their gameplay would be rough, their visuals would be dated, and they just wouldn't deliver on what potential they had...

Though the Nintendo Switch 2 has been a phenomenal success, like pretty much any new console the launch line-up was a mixed bag, with many expressing not one iota of surprise that Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour was, well, a bit cack.

A mini-game collection intended to serve as an introduction to the Switch 2's various hardware features, Welcome Tour ruffled many feathers by not being a free console pack-in, with Nintendo instead charging £7.99/$10 to play it.

While one could take this as a sign that Nintendo felt the game was of high enough quality to charge for it, nothing in the marketing for Welcome Tour seemed to support that.

And indeed, Welcome Tour received mediocre reviews for its barebones gameplay, especially compared to feature-rich pack-in games like the PS5's Astro's Playroom. 

Many critics couldn't help but mention the absurdity of the game being a paid product, but even taking financials out of the equation entirely, in terms of pure quality it's an incredible sterile, even soulless attempt at onboarding new Switch 2 owners.