The Worst PS4 Games Ever Made

If you can crown any current-generation home console the "winner" based on its exclusives, it would have to be the PlayStation 4. Simply running through a few of the titles will help you understand why. There's the dark, difficult Bloodborne, for instance. There's also the grand, gorgeous Uncharted 4. The team at Guerrilla Games jumped from the first person shooter genre into the realm of open-world action adventure, working on Killzone: Shadow Fall before delivering another hit in Horizon Zero Dawn. And we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we left instant classics like God of War and Marvel's Spider-Man off the list.

Unfortunately, though, not everything that's come to the PlayStation 4 has been gold. For all of the amazing gaming moments you can experience on Sony's console, there are a whole bunch of games that fail to hit even the lowest bars of quality. Among the entries in this hall of shame are shallow cash grabs, major studio missteps, and indie flops. They could have showed some promise on the outset, and might have initially gotten fans excited, but their final review scores told a far different tale.

These are the games on the PlayStation 4 that you should avoid at all costs. They're the worst of the worst, and we're going to tell you why.

There was already a whole lot of controversy surrounding the Ghostbusters franchise in 2016. To start, that was when the newest movie in the Ghostbusters universe came out, and for some reason, people found a female-led Ghostbusters film to be a huge affront to everything they knew and loved. But as much as we'd love to roll our eyes about that, we're here to talk about an actual atrocity — the 2016 video game.

It brought back memories of the days when licensed video games were reliably awful. And you might not be surprised to learn that this one was also published by Activision, a studio that seems to have a fetish for bad licensed games. Twinfinite pulled no punches with its review, which called Ghostbusters "a game without a purpose, plot, or any sense of next generation presentation," adding, "If you ever needed an example of what bad licensed titles can look like, this is the game for you."

Ghostbusters definitely earned its spot on this list, and pretty much guaranteed that we won't see another game using the beloved brand anytime in the near future.

How do you know when a Resident Evil game is really bad? The answer is, if you barely hear about it. When Umbrella Corps released in the middle of 2016, it didn't get much coverage. The hype machine was full steam ahead for Resident Evil 7, which was slated to arrive early in 2017. And Umbrella Corps wasn't even a proper RE game. It was almost as though the game was afraid to use Resident Evil in the title at all. After playing it, most understood why.

Umbrella Corps was a poor attempt at bringing Resident Evil into the world of online multiplayer shooters. Frankly, it didn't deserve to be called a Resident Evil game in the slightest. Game Informer, which isn't known for putting on the kid gloves, hammered home exactly why Umbrella Corps was such a disappointing game. "I once waited almost 20 minutes for a match that lasted less than 10 minutes," said reviewer Ben Reeves. "In that amount of time, you could drive to the store and buy a better game."

Based on the review scores, and the number of people who actually bought the game, it seems most people took Reeves' advice.

It's safe to say that Activision and BANDAI NAMCO aren't exactly the grand prize winners on this list. Activision managed to trash both the Tony Hawk license and the Ghostbusters license in a very short period of time. And BANDAI NAMCO? It buried the Godzilla in a pile of rubble, and then went forward and did the same thing to the Gundam series a few years later. The best thing we can say about New Gundam Breaker is that the idea behind the game is unique. Unfortunately, that doesn't save it from being uniquely bad.

If you're someone who appreciates a brutally honest review, you'll probably feel for Todd Rigney, who had to cover New Gundam Breaker at We Got This Covered. That pour soul slammed the game with the site's lowest score, "UTTER FAILURE," stating that "New Gundam Breaker feels unfinished. The combat system doesn't work, the visual novel is stale and uninspired, and the dating sim doesn't fit. In short: It's a pretty terrible game."

This is one you'll definitely want to put on your list of games to avoid — even if you love the Gundam franchise.

Homefront: The Revolution is one of those games that we really rooted for because of its premise. There's nothing like a cool take on alternate history, whether its found in a video game like the new Wolfenstein series or in a TV show like The Man in the High Castle. In Homefront's case, the setting is a near-future America that's been invaded and taken over by North Korea, which has become the leader in tech.

There's a sort of silly irony in that premise, though — the story banks on North Korea being a highly advanced technological powerhouse, but everything in Homefront itself is so terribly buggy. The team at PSNation reviewed Homefront: The Revolution and came to the following conclusion: it's a mess. "I was unable to finish the campaign due to the bugs and glitches even after giving it a second chance," said the site's review. "No one should have to restart a game three times just to finish the single player campaign."

Your best bet for alternate history is the aforementioned Wolfenstein games, if they're your sort of thing. Homefront, it seems, doesn't deserve to exist in any kind of reality.

You don't have to guess this time around, but we'll tell you that this licensed game won't buck the trend with regard to who published it. This is another BANDAI NAMCO joint, putting the scoreboard at three apiece for both Activision and Bandy. Like the Turtles game covered earlier, fans will have either nostalgia for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or love for the current iteration of the series, depending on age.

And like Mutants in Manhattan, there's not much to say about Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Mega Battle except it does the franchise no justice whatsoever. Destructoid compared Mega Battle to what the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers would've been like if Zordon recruited five teenagers with no attitude," calling it "an underwhelming Web flash game that fails to capture the show's spirit."

The game is not actually a Web flash game, by the way. It's very much a PlayStation 4 game. That particular line is a knock on how low-budget and low-quality the game feels, so yeah... it's not great. Games like Spider-Man have shown us that licensed games can absolutely be done right. We hope that companies like Activision and BANDAI NAMCO take note.

The not-so-subtle joke hidden in the title of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is that it's the follow-up to one of the worst games ever made. The original Shaq Fu was an unmitigated disaster, but somehow, someone found a way to revive the property and bring it into the 21st century. This game is like Jack from Lost, insisting that everyone has to go back to the island. Why? Why would you want to go back? That doesn't make any sense. Neither does this sequel, yet here we are.

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is, according to Destructoid, "a nostalgic joke taken too far." It wants to cheese it up and play on the ideas that Shaq Fu was horrible, Shaq being a fighter makes no sense, and memes are fun. But if none of the jokes are particularly funny and Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn isn't a remotely good fighting game, what's left? Not a whole lot of note.

So many other games could've been made with all those Indiegogo dollars. Instead, we got another Shaq Fu. This truly is the worst timeline.