7 Most Painfully Confusing Video Game Titles

It cannot be overstated just how important the title of a game is. If a game's name makes people roll their eyes then it probably won’t sell well. There are a few big no-no’s when it comes to game titles.

The name of the game shouldn’t be easily mistakable for another game, it's honestly a miracle that The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds both did well. The game’s title shouldn't be too long, nobody is going to spread the word of a game that they can't even remember the full name of.

It needs to grab people’s attention, it needs to be eye-catching, be easy to search for - if a game doesn’t appear on the front page of Google when searched for then it has no chance.

If the title of a game manages to avoid all of these name-related issues then it might succeed.

If you're making a game that's a part of a huge franchise then you can ignore all of this and call your game whatever you want, you can put anything at the end of a Call of Duty games title and people would still buy it.

The Super Mario Advance games are ports of classic Mario games for the Game Boy Advance. Up until the release of “Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3” they managed to avoid putting two separate numbers in any of the Super Mario Advance games titles.

The only other game that would have been a problem was Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island when that was ported but the Advance version of that is simply called “Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3” instead of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3.

The thing is, there's nothing you can shorten Super Mario Bros. 3 to, so they ended up giving up and just calling it Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.

They could have easily gone with something like Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 3 or even better as to avoid the repeated use of the words "Super Mario", Super Mario Bros. 3 Advance. Nope, instead, they went with a name that featured two numbers and the words "Super Mario" repeated twice.