The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Here’s another obvious entry for the list. Daedalic Entertainment’s narrative-adventure game about the gangly Stoor hobbit Gollum was terrible. (I would know, I reviewed it.) It’s easily in the running for 2023’s worst game, alongside some other contenders that appear here. But aside from being a bad game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was also a buggy one. Button presses wouldn’t register, causing Gollum to meet an unceremonious death during chase sequences or platforming sections. Framerates would dip and skip, resulting in stuttering. Lighting and textures would flicker at random like Gollum took place in Mordor’s grimmest night club. Gollum was infested with detrimental glitches. It was so bad thatthe studio closed its development arm, which is a bummer. Real people shouldn’t be impacted by the results ofallegedly incompetent leadership
