The Worst Shovelware Video Games You've Ever Played -

Jeff Boomhauer

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For whatever reason, Nintendo has been porting shitty SNES games to the Switch's online library. There's an awful Street Fighter 2 ripoff called Doomsday Warrior. Save for a dragon, all of the characters are boring as hell.

There are two attack buttons, a block button, and one of my biggest pet peeves for a fighting game, a jump button. You can't just press up.
 

Jeff Boomhauer

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I remember playing California Games II on the SNES. I think we bought it at a video rental store for $5.


None of the games were fun.

The jet ski game's music is forever burned into my head, as is the bikini girl's awkwardly bouncing ass.
 

Scarlett Johansson

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall
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Fantastic Four on gcn. Shit sucked and the voice acting was atrocious. Only good thing was the bonus Latvia mission with Grey Deslile as Sue Storm.

Catwoman on gcn is my trash. Jennifer Hale voices her funny enough.

Teen Titans on gcn is one of the worst beat em ups i think I've ever played by far.
 

JamesFargo

saying "Oh cool" as I put the gun in my mouth
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Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust is shovelware and it is also the single worst game I ever played on any Xbox console.
This game happened because Ralph slipped Felix some good shit:

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XYZpdq

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For whatever reason, Nintendo has been porting shitty SNES games to the Switch's online library. There's an awful Street Fighter 2 ripoff called Doomsday Warrior. Save for a dragon, all of the characters are boring as hell.

There are two attack buttons, a block button, and one of my biggest pet peeves for a fighting game, a jump button. You can't just press up.
wasn't that the one that was a reskinned Ranma game?
 

Fuck Y'all

Goddamn chemicals turning freakin' frogs gay
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games by Team6 (bunch of weedsmokers, which didn't know how cars work)

and the worst thing is they made FlatOut 3 only because previous IP holder gone under and new holder gone cheap *sigh*
 

Dom Cruise

I'll fucking Mega your ass, bitch!
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Animaniacs on the og gameboy, fuck that shit game I still regret buying it

Also pokemon snap, a fucking paperweight
I played an Animaniacs game on the Genesis as a kid that wasn't half bad, although it wasn't great.

Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust is shovelware and it is also the single worst game I ever played on any Xbox console.
I have a soft spot for Magna Cum Laude, the other 3D LSL game, as it delivers in the humor and cartoon babe department and the gameplay isn't too bad, but Box Office Bust I've never bothered with as it looks hilariously awful.

I'm sad the direct sequel to Magna Cum Laude was canceled.
 

Massively Strong Greed

Thanks for the money, dummy!
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For whatever reason, Nintendo has been porting shitty SNES games to the Switch's online library. There's an awful Street Fighter 2 ripoff called Doomsday Warrior. Save for a dragon, all of the characters are boring as hell.

There are two attack buttons, a block button, and one of my biggest pet peeves for a fighting game, a jump button. You can't just press up.
Speaking of Nintendo Switch Online, Mighty Bomb Jack and The Immortal (at least the NES version) are hot garbage. The Japanese version of Nintendo Switch Online has Atlantis no Nazo, which is also a terrible game.
 

Coelacanth

Your local not-living-anymore fossil.
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Behold, one of the worst things to ever happen to the DS.

Not even Nintendo is safe from Satan Incarnate's trotters.

 

Massively Strong Greed

Thanks for the money, dummy!
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I know I've probably mentioned this before, but it still legit surprises me that we never saw a shovelware game for Night of the Living Dead during the "Zombie Boom" of the late 2000's and early 2010's.

The film is in the public domain and any dev could slap together a cheapo PS2 or Wii title back in 2008-2010 and make bank on the whole "based on the first true zombie movie" angle.

IIRC, someone mentioned that the film is in public domain but the name is technically under trademark by Image Ten and the Romero estate, but if it's public domain, I'm fairly sure a disclaimer saying that it's not connected to Image Ten and not intended to infringe on any trademarks could suffice.
Oh God, I’m getting flashbacks to that terrible Rudolph game on the Wii based on the Rankin-Bass special. I swear you can see everything that game has to offer in 10 minutes.
 

StraightShooter2

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There are probably a lot of games based off of popular movies or TV shows that fit this category, since often they're made just to cash in on the popularity of the franchise rather than make a good game.
 
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