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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Bryan Arroyo
United States
Old Hickory
Tennessee
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Not a game, just an exercise in futility. Bought the game to play because the cover art on our copy led us to believe it might be funny. The only good thing about playing this game was having my brother figure out to lose so that he could stop playing and I quickly followed suit.
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Mark Beyak
United States
Santa Rosa
California
Combat Commander gets your blood flowing.
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I can't see why anyone would want to play this piece of crap again after playing it once. This was simply the most ridiculous waste of time and resources I ever experienced.
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Nyarlathotep
United States
Unspecified
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This is easily, by far the WORST game I have ever played, quite possibly the worst game in all of existence. Even aside from the fact that the rules are almost incomprehensible, a major factor in the game (Bludgers get completely LOCKED DOWN with just TWO players sitting next to it) is broken and you flip one of ONE HUNDRED tiles on EVERY TURN LOOKING FOR THE BALL/SNITCH, even putting that aside, get this, and I kid you not, you score a goal by SHOOTING THE QUAFFLE (ball) WITH A CATAPULT THROUGH ONE OF THREE SCORING HOOPS. Oh, and as an added bonus, the catapult is either 1) a close facsimily to the one in Weapons & Warriors, or 2) is the EXACT SAME catapult from Weapons & Warriors. Congratulations University Games, you've managed to suck my will to live.
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Scott and Suzy Krutsch
United States
Cary
North Carolina
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This game takes forever to set up. Then you roll dice, find the piece that matches, and remove it. (At least that's how I remember it.)
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Angela Kincaid
United States
Colorado Springs
Colorado
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This game makes Zombies! look gooooood. It's advantage over Zombies! is that it only lasted 20 minutes...but it was still painfully long.
It gets good marks for top-notch components, however.
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Steve S
United States
Rockford
Illinois
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"Would you rather play this game again, or get a very sharp stick in the eye?"
Would be a hard decision. Suffice it to say I've never actually completed a full game. The cards can be fun, the game itself is horrid.
Interestingly, they later came out with 'Zobmondo: The Card Game," probably after the company getting feedback that the cards are the only salvagable part of the game.
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Paolo Ciardulli
Italy
Trento
TN
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I have played a lot of games that just are not deep, which do not leave many strategic choices to the player. But this is really the worst of them. This game is not even easy to play. There are many rules and even more exceptions, put together in a confused mix. I didn’t have any fun at all the few times I played it. "Worst game" award on my games list.
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Darren Copple
United States
Burbank
California
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This game is known as the 's**t sucking game' at my mothers house. She likes it for some reason so we always end up playing it. I win every time and hate it more every time. It is tedium defined. Role the category die, answer the theme of the three clues "a banana, an orange, a pretty woman", "they all have a peel". Stop, my sides, oh, you really got me on that one. Blech. Role the movement die, next player, ad nauseum. I'd rather scratch my cornea for excitement than play this 'game'.
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Ben Maleki
United States
Lakewood
California
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I purchased this game to play with my kids and niece, thinking it would be fun to get them interested in a CCG. I must have earned about a thousand jackass points for spending money on this stinker. After reading the manual twice, I was befuddled by the poorly written rules of play. I figured that I was an out of touch adult and gave the rules to my ten-year-old niece. After a week she was as confused as I was. It plays like war (for a lot more money) but with a million exceptions.
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Jon M
United Kingdom
Hitchin
Herts
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I challenge anyone to have a good time playing this pile of turd. Never again. Long, boring, convoluted, terrible rules that aren't clear. The crux of the game is not explained in the rules and you have to end up making it up your self. Utterly dreadful.
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Valdir Jorge
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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Dark Future is by far the worst game I have ever played (and please note that I have even played a few games of Monopoly here and there!). Here is my story: eight guys (me among them) start a session of this piece of *&^%; on the first curve one guy causes an accident and is out of the game (lucky him!). The four players who are ahead of him continue ahead, the other three (me included) spend the rest of the afternoon going backwards to try and start again. I wish I had been eliminated, at least I would have been able to sit elsewhere and read the rulebooks of other games...
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Board Game: Orbit
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Frank Branham
United States
Norcross
Georgia
Battle Beyond Space Status: In Production. Late July is current estimate.
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There aren't really enough games on this list from the companies I call the Quartet of Doom.
Roseart, Pressman, University Games, Cardinal.
While there have been anomalies (Atmosfear, the Richard Borg Pressman games), a good chunk of the games from these folks are hideously awful even if you like trivia and party games.
This particular RoseArt travesty is basically a Goose (Candy Land) game, but with shared pawns (players get points by moving a piece onto a good space and lose them by moving onto a bad space.)
The single page of rules leaves more questions about actually how to play than any game I've ever seen. Taking some best guesses, the game can actually lock up, and can go dozens of turns without anything happening.
A lot of the other games in the list at least have mostly complete rules, some player choices, don't last 90-120 minutes, and don't suck with every fiber of their tiny cardboard beings.
Moo,
Frank
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Board Game: Arne
[Average Rating:3.50 Overall Rank:7911]
Chris Shaffer
United States
Portland
Oregon
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BGG has a rating that says "Defies description of a game. You won't catch me playing this. Clearly broken." I've only given a one rating to one game, and this is it. It's virtually all luck and no skill.
Or, as my friend Jerry says "The pain! The pain! There is more decision making in Fluxx."
Another reviewer said "Uno-like, but you can't play most of the cards you get, and those you can play get stolen, so why bother."
The rating graph is informative: 4 ones, 9 twos. Amazingly, four people gave it a six, but one of them admits having met the author.
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Chris Page
United States
San Diego
California
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"The Farming Game"
Take Monopoly. Make the graphics uglier. Add some of the bad house rules. Remove all player interaction, like collecting rent from each other. (Slight brief exception with harvesters in early midgame.) Add lots of decimal/percentage math. Add a couple hours in length. Cry.
(Worst game I've read the rules to but never played belongs to a CCG thankfully lost in the mists of time. Each card had a picture of a hero and a number. Deck building was to build a deck of ten heroes whose hero points summed up to 50. Game was each turning over a hero, each rolling a d10 and adding that number to the hero's value, and recording that score. Player with the highest total score at the end of all ten rounds wins. Makes SuperDeck seem brilliant.)
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Board Game: Bingo
[Average Rating:2.54 Overall Rank:7972]
Randy Dreger
Australia
Sebastopol
Victoria
I love Melissa, but don't tell her. It's a secret if she can find this. Shhhhh....
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It's not a game. It's an addiction for many members of our society (My mother-in-law, for one) and should be outlawed before she Bingos away my inheritance...
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Jorgen
United States
Ferndale
California
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Yes I know people like it but its not that fun with people who cant take jokes.
Heck I rated 'Clue' higher
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Christoph Ruepprich
United States
Keller
Texas
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Ugh. Played one round. Won. Never again.
Just my personal taste.
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Jeff Boes
United States
Saint Joseph
Michigan
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This one gets bonus points for being the biggest disappointment in my gaming for the last year. I acquired it in a trade last fall, and uncrated it for play on New Year's Day. We stomped around Bagdad looking for gems, and couldn't figure out why anyone would bother trading much of anything. The "bumping" rule, where you can send opponent's pieces out into the desert, just struck us as cruel. The end of the game was more of a relief than a triumph.
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Simon Franks
United Kingdom
Torquay
Devon, England
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Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, Dull, ..... get the picture?
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Jonathan Degann
United States
Westlake Village
California
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Game consists of watching an edited Three Stooges tape, with things like "bonk", "slap", "nyuk-nyuk" showing up on the screen whenever a Stooge assaults one of his brethren. As soon as that happens, you need to play the appropriate card from your hand on another person. First one played sticks (if I recall correctly). The goal is to unload your hand. Of course, the bonks fly by much faster than you can unwind all of the issues (no, Ted played his slap before Jerry - no Mark, you played two nyuk-nyuk's and the screen had a nyuk-nyuk and a bonk), and the game degenerates into... into absolutely nothing.
I'd imagine that none of my criticism sticks if everyone playing is stoned.
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Matt Cobb
United States
Cortland
New York
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Back in high school, someone had the bright idea of playing this game with 3 decks and 12 people. After 2 and a half hours of sheer boredom (this is even to the boredom-resistent mind, trained by hours of dull classes), we mercifully decided to call it quits. At that point, the leader was only on phase 5, but I don't think anyone really cared anymore.
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Justin
United States
Creve Coeur
MO
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i hate this game
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Board Game: Go
[Average Rating:7.78 Overall Rank:44]
Lester Klew
United States
Norwich
Connecticut
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Absolutely the worst game I have ever played. I sit down to play a game with a name like Go and I expect maybe a racing game or something equally action packed. What I got though was putting flat rocks on a board and I can't even freakin move them! Where is the go in Go I ask you? False advertising at its worst. I would sue the publisher if I knew who it was. No theme at all and to top it off someone screwed up and gave this a negative 2000 as the year of being published. Buncha morons...
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Jonathan
United States
Maitland
Florida
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Here's my vote. This game is painfully boring. I mean honestly, who in the world thought pasting a terrorist them onto Go Fish was a good idea?
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William Hostman
United States
Eagle River
Alaska
Gaming in Greater Anchorage area, Alaska since 1978. Looking for Indy-willing RPG players in Eagle River (or willing to drive to Eagle River). Geekmail me if interested.
Yes, this really is what I looked like when I uploaded that avatar. Not that it's quite current anymore.
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This is not a game. This is a test of how well one can lie.
The lack of mechanics, and lack of randomness, coupled with the fact that it turns normal people in to jerks and jerks into (multiple expletives self-deleted), makes this the least pleasurable game I've ever been forced to endure.
ach... bad memories of every one of the 4 times I was coerced in to playing it, and even worse for the one where I was forced in to playing it... For a GRADE, no less.
I find it terribly appropriate the image I picked is 11666
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It looked so good. 
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gives the player a choice of covering up the 3 and the 5 or one of either 35, 53, or their sum, 8. A roll of 
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means players could cover up just a 4, or an 8 or any of several spaces marked "D" (for "Double", as if you couldn't guess).
