The 20 Worst Games Of 2025

In the six years since the show ended, Game of Thrones hype hasn’t died. This is in part thanks to spin-off show House of the Dragon, and more so thanks to the Warner Bros. marketing behemoth - but it means we continue to get extra helpings of a series most of us can’t leave behind (and which George R R Martin may never let us finish).

However, as we learned from the original show - whose early seasons were the epitome of fantasy entertainment, and whose latter seasons are best left on the shelf - with each success comes an equal disappointment. And Netmarble’s action-adventure RPG Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is just that: a bit of a disappointment.

In Kingsroad you explore the seven kingdoms of Westeros, coming face-to-face with the types of rotters, oiks and vicious marauders that made the show so watchable. It looks fantastic and feels authentic, but what should have been an easy win is instead a gruelling nightmare of progress-hampering roadblocks and microtransactions.

Your in-game Momentum Score regularly stalls your progress, forcing you to grind and graft on side missions for hours if you want to get to the next step of the story. And the only easy way through this? Your bank card. You can literally buy your way out of the monotony at every turn - but this isn’t what we signed up for.