PC Games on Steam: 13 of the worst

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Should Greenlight actually have been called red light? 13 stinkers that will make you wish you'd lost your wallet instead

2. Time Ramesside (A New Reckoning) £3.99/$4.99
Owners: 43,349

It takes some skill and hard work by a gifted developer to have a game categorised as 'very negative' under the Steam reviews system, but Panzer Gaming Studios has done it with Time Ramesside. Apparently, Steam users have only themselves to blame for voting for it in the Greenlight community.

The less said about the storyline, the better. This is yet another Unity Engine game that suffers from excessive motion blur, terrible depth of field, poor controls, bad graphics, bad sound, bad everything.

Panzer Gaming is also responsible for the more recent X-17 and would appear to be learning from experience. The reviews for X-17 are classified only as 'mostly negative', which represents real progress. Well done, chaps.

Steam reviews:
"This is the reason why Steam needs to rework it's Greenlight feature so things like this don't slip through the cracks. Controls are terrible and clunky, the option menus constantly bug with random letters being misplaced. Overall, it's just a bad experience. I got the game for free and still want a refund."
User name: Phearmei

"This game has to be one of the worst developed projects I have ever seen. Listing all the bugs would be pages of repetition. Every update, the game changes for the worse. Stay as far away from this as you can, even if it makes a bundle somewhere - save your hard drive space."
User name: Criggie

"I got this game for free in some bundle, but somehow I still feel ripped off."
User name: SugarPope

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