Although 2024 was a quieter year for big releases, it still had some fantastic games. But, at the other end of the spectrum, it had its fair share of stinkers too.
Of course, reviews are and always have been objective critiques and whatever you might think of a game is your own opinion. You might have even played and enjoyed some of the games on this list – we all have guilty pleasures, right?
But honestly, there were some really bad games released in 2024 that we definitely recommend you avoid…Looking at IGN’s official review scale, fives are considered ‘Mediocre’ games – the “kind of bland, unremarkable games we’ve mostly forgotten about a day after we finish playing.” They’re far from the worst games on the list and aren’t even necessarily “bad” (that’s 4s and lower), but you’re going to have to work hard to get any real fun out of them..As the most populous score on this list, you’ll find a variety of different games.
There are games like Slitterhead, an absurd action-horror game from a team of ex-Silent Hill veterans where humans must fend off parasitic monsters.
Sounds fun but unfortunately it’s just dull. Similarly, Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance takes the war against Skynet (great!) and turns it into a mediocre RTS (not so great).There was also a string of bland strategy games like Millennia, which our reviewer called “Civilization at home” after the McDonald’s at home meme; Sins of a Solar Empire 2, which is a lacklustre sequel to the 2008 4x game in space; and Homeworld: Vast Reaches.