The Worst Game You've Ever Played
Robert Martin
United States
Atlanta
Georgia
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This list is for the worst game you've ever played. Go ahead, add it to the list and share your story of misery with us.
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Board Game: Wadjet
[Average Rating:3.62 Overall Rank:7696]
Robert Martin
United States
Atlanta
Georgia
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This was one of my first purchases after getting into gaming. It looks nice enough - well researched theme, great artwork and components - what more can a gamer ask for? Hmm, how about a GAME in there somewhere??? Hours into this misery we decided to just call it a night and go home. I'm lucky it didn't just kill our game night outright. It was that bad.
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Gabriele Stecchi
Italy
Unspecified
Unspecified
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There's so much books, movies and, of course, boardgames marked as 'classic', a very strong antidote-definition against aging and poor quality. But some classics are bad, really bad. Monopoly is the King of the Hill of bad classics. In your turn, you roll dice and spend money. Over. Anyway, you must avoid prison, poor properties and other players real-estates, finish a lap in a fair amount of time (to cash in the bonus), and buy quickly yellow and green real-estates. But if you roll bad, you can't. Very funny. Of course, the goal is to screw everyone else on the table. Listen to kids playing Monopoly, it's scaring: "FAB! You landed on my violet hotel! AGAIN! HAHA! HAND ME THE MONEY! NOW!" There is some hidden educational purposes? Last but not least, the game drag on for hours, and eliminated players float around, sadly, like wraiths. The best thing you can do with this game is the pantomime pictured over.
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Board Game: Tenjo
[Average Rating:5.05 Overall Rank:7401]
Joe Steadman
United States
Evart
Michigan
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WHY? Well I payed over $60 and I had my hopes very high. It came in, I invited the guys over, got out the kool-aid and pretzels, got rid of the wives, and all for what? A pointless, poor ruled, no-map-of-Japan, endless, waste-of-good-component, silly dice, game. That game is getting very dusty! I hope no one reads this that might trade with me!!!
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Anthony Simons
United Kingdom
Royal Wootton Bassett
Wiltshire
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This is quite possibly NOT the worst game I have ever played; but because nobody told me the rules, the object, or even who Groo is; the one time I played it was the worst game I had ever played. Maybe another try would change my mind; but I don't think I'm ever going to try it again.
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Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
The Back Alley gets no respect.
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I recall that this was a pretty expensive game for its day. So one in our group purchased it and we played during a weekend of gaming in his condo (CondoCon). Somehow, we actually played through to the end, hoping for a big payoff when we reveal our past lives. Nope. Nothing there. I can imagine worse games (think Global Survival or Wadjet or World in Flames), but I haven't actually lost life-hours to those. I really did spend time playing this stinker.
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Board Game: Risk
[Average Rating:5.62 Overall Rank:6163]
Brett Berger
United States
Near Cleveland
Ohio
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I'm not sure it is my worst as at one time I played it a lot! But it would be REAL hard to get me to start a game now. I can remember going through a phase in high school in which we played this game dozens of times. We rarely finished a game (even after many hours of play) without someone causing a tremendous "world event" earthquake that would shatter the world's armies. Scientists should seek to discover the amazing paranormal link between the attack dice and the number of armies you have--the dice mysteriously roll 1's in direct proportion to overwhelming odds.
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Brett Berger
United States
Near Cleveland
Ohio
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This is the most incomprehensible game I ever played. The rules were full of wierd Bionicle terms. A paragraph might read "move your Fukioki into the Marto Fleemoid. If you Karbozoize the Actomimo then your Muzatoki will be Pebooized! Beware the Cruchies!" We tried to figure it out for about 2 hours and then literally threw it in the trash... that is a bad game!
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Robt. Ferrett
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
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Whatever revulsion one may feel toward political assassins, their dramatic, intrigue-filled profession is sure to make for a great game, right?
Wrong! The Assassin board game establishes conclusively that the biggest problem faced by today's professional killer is reliable transportation. "I could kill my target," the assassin reflected, "if only I could thumb a ride to Amsterdam..."
This got one play, and was set aside with considerable irritation. Good thing I bought it used...
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Board Game: Cairo
[Average Rating:5.88 Overall Rank:3664]
Rick Byrens
United States
Yorba Linda
California
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I know some really raved about this, but this has to be the stupidest game I played in the last year anyway. I admit I am not partial to flicking games, but this is bad even for a flicker....
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Board Game: Set
[Average Rating:6.50 Overall Rank:823]
Jens Hoppe
Denmark
Frederiksberg
What are you, like 80?
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.
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Tried this an evening with a very enthusiastic acquaintance. About 30 seconds into the actual game I was thinking "this is horrible". What felt like years later the game was finally over, with him the winner and me the one with the headache. Ouch!
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Gert Keijer-Spaink
Netherlands
Utrecht
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This game is completly unplayabel. I tried it once. after two hours of setting up the game, we played one round and stopped at once. All the rules, all the booklets with hunderds of tables makes it so boring. Glad there is a computerversion!
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Daniel Karp
United States
Rockville
Maryland
I mean it!
100 geekgold for OverText, and all I got was this stupid sentence.
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The first time I played this was in a six-player game. I got off to a slow start, and began essentially in last place. Five and a half hours later, when the game ended, I was still in last place, having been there for the entire game. As you may know, if you aren't getting many resources in this game, there isn't much to do. While I've played worse games, the duration combined with the boredom makes this my all time worst gaming experience.
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Paul Sauberer
United States
Hendersonville
Tennessee
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Is that brass andiron in the fuzzy picture a $500 heirloom or a rare example of early American craftsmanship worth $125,000? Who knows? Who cares? You've got a 50/50 chance of getting it right to be able to rid yourself of a card and get closer to mercifully ending the game. And you actually have to listen to the sleep inducing stories behind these items because some of the cards you have to void yourself of have terms like "auction" on them and the only way you can get rid of them is if the term is on one of the cards. I stuck with this one long enough to actually get a card out of my hand and then it headed to the basement.
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Mark Blanco
United States
Charlotte
North Carolina
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
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When I played, I looked forward to dying, just so I could use the wild animal characters to attack. I'm not against dice games...just this one. I vowed never to play again...but if I was forced to, that I would customize every single one of my gladiators to be the 'net thrower guys'.
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Cliff Fuller
United States
Ridgewood
NY
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KB Toys was selling copies of this for 2.99 (the Titanic movie wave having already crested), so I grabbed one. Lots of lovely bits (passports, currency), and what may very well be the worst roll and move debacle ever. Imagine playing Candyland as an adult. For less than three dollars and I still got robbed.
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Board Game: Fluxx
[Average Rating:5.72 Overall Rank:4313]
Eric Johnson
United States
Littleton
Colorado
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The group I play with seems to like this one. I can't stand it. There is no game in there no matter what anyone says. I just love playing a game where your strategy changes after every card that falls. Oops did I say strategy? I should be drawn and quartered and then forced to play Lord of the Rings in hell forever (oh, I hate that one too).
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Will Burnham
United States
Ellicott City
Maryland
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Can go on for too long. Very little strategy or tactics and far too much luck involved. Too many rules loop holes. Too many rules clarifications are needed. As is this is a broken game (should I even call it a game?) There needs to be a few more weapons. Nice components and artwork though. Yet another game where the players and the outcome are controlled by the cards/die. The players have very little to do with the outcome other than to be carried along by the flow dictated by the cards/dice. With 5 players this game is agonizingly long! My suggestion for a 5 player game is to remove two of the four way intersections and set the winning zombie kill total to 15. By the end of a 5 player game I am zombie! The cards in the Zombie Corpse expansion (I got it as a gift) are bigger than the cards in the original set. Talk about poor QA and design!
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Cyn Norton
United States
Palo Alto
California
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Egad!! I bought this game because of the cool graphics and the seemingly interesting theme. Well, the game itself was a HUGE disappointment--very luck-driven and dull in the mechanics, with what little strategy there is being quickly mastered. Really a family game, for kids. A big fancy box with fancy parts, mounted around a non-game. Blah!
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Doug Baumeister
United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
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Unimaginative board, boring questions and total lack of gameplay place this game near the bottom for me.
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Mark Herriott
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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If you have never played this awful CCG, be thankful. Starting with about a wastebasket's worth of cards, (exactly 1 wastebasket's worth: we measured) my roomie and I set to build a lean, mean deck and do battle in the depths of space. One problem: the game is unplayable. Hm... that last sentence suggests that there is only one single problem with the game, which is not true. THere are MANY problems with this horrid, horrid game. There are umpteen expansions, which server to add more confusing and illogical rules to the already disasterous basic rulebook. The card stock changed after each release of the game. The game length is measured in seasons. There are three overpowered cards in the game, and the rest are all useless. I can't believe I wasted money on this twaddle.
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Terry Bailey Sr.
United States
Jonesborough
Tennessee
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This is by far my most hated game. Even the game ID on geek for it is boring 1234. I would rather watch grass grow than attempt to play this. This is not a game it is more of tell a story and act like there is a game . YUCK!
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Todd Keinick
Canada
Medicine Hat
Alberta
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I received this game for Christmas when I was 8 yrs old. I might as well of got 'snakes and ladders' Of course now it is a collectable. Go figure.
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Ben Pope
United States
Santa Rosa
California
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A game with a theme I very much wanted to enjoy, that somehow manages to pair the worst mechanics I have ever seen, with two major problems, both involving card applicability. As an added bonus, while one problem (# of attacks vs. strength of defense) is lessened by increasing # of players, the other problem (single-use defense cards) is actually increased by the same player influx. Saw another game in my local shop a few months back that proudly proclaimed on the cover "From the designers of GROS!". This marks the first time a blurb has made me actually recoil from a game.
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Rich Ochs
United States
Jackson
Wyoming
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I like Trivial Pursuit, I even can enjoy Pictionary from time to time, but this was horrible. I hate singing or humming (i.e. making a fool of yourself), especially when I have no idea what the songs are. Unless you listen to mainstream music, it makes that aspect of the game very difficult. The trivia/sculpting aspects are ok, the song crap just really makes this one intolerable for me. I don't know what all the buzz is about.
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Chris Brua
United States
Allen Park
Michigan
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/28
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Actually, Assassin is the worst game I have ever played, but since that one is already listed I decided to contribute this one. I have never played Global Survival. I bought it brand new when Amazon was liquidating AH stuff, opened it up, read the rules, thought to myself how truly horrible the game experience would have to be, and quickly dumped it on eBay.
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This was one of my earliest buys last year and it is atrocious. The only part that is enjoyable is the BOX COVER!
It's funny that this game is in here because it popped into my head the moment I saw this list. Funnily enough, I do believe I, too, received it for my 8th birthday! I used to subject my father to this snooze-fest until finally he just refused to play any more. He gently told me that it just wasn't a good game. He was so right.
