20 Worst Game Breaking Bugs & Glitches

Bungie brought us the Halo and Destiny games, in the noughties and tens respectively, but while their successes have been major, their failures have been almost equally as huge. And the developer’s Myth sequel, Myth II: Soulblighter, almost brought everything crashing down - which would have meant a whole different gaming landscape today.

Soulblighter is a real-time tactics game that returns us to a time of peace and prosperity, sixty years after the Great War of the Fallen Lords game, but one not made to last much longer. The titular Soulblighter - one of the Fallen Lords - has survived, and resurrects the flesh-eating Myrkridia to wreak his vengeance on the world. The only thing that stands in his way is Alric, the King of the Province.

The game features solid graphics, gameplay and monumental worldbuilding, but these feathers in its cap were set aflame by Bungie missing a serious bug for the Windows version of Soulblighter: uninstalling the game wiped the user’s entire hard drive. Meaning players couldn't even install the game, never mind play it - not if they wanted to keep everything they had ever done on their computer. Bungie had no choice but to recall 200,000 copies of the game, suffering not just the cost of the recall but costs associated with the shutdown of production, missed deadlines with retailers, and the repackaging of completed units. And it nearly bankrupt the company.