some games just don’t belong on a store
shelf be it physical or digital welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
controversial games removed from Steam
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at a
handful of games that had so many
problems they were forced to be pulled
from the steam store pages keep in mind
were only considering games that have
had official releases so active shooter
escapes the list by the skin of its
teeth some even creating a petition on
change.org demanding the video game be
pulled the petition garnered hundreds of
thousands of signatures number 10
abstract as him
[Music]
after hearing about this little incident
we’ve grown a little more cautious of
buying cheap games abstract ism was a
simple platformer that aimed to market
toward players looking for an easy game
on the contrary there was more inside of
the games files
turns out the game was part of a scheme
to turn players computers into
cryptocurrency mines designed to scam
players with fake DLC for other games
developer Ocala Union tried passing
these files off as necessities to start
the game but this wasn’t fooling anybody
and the game was swiftly delisted
minutes after the news broke
[Music]
number nine pickled Rick
[Music]
just because it’s a joke played out by
thousands doesn’t mean you can make a
game out of it especially if the joke
involves a copyrighted character in
November 2017 a developer by the name of
a debary EV uploaded a beat’em up game
called pickled rick piggybacking off the
pickle Rick joke from a certain sci-fi
cartoon
can you move can you fly wouldn’t be
much of a pickle if I could despite
getting attention from some big-name
youtubers better Jeff was quickly given
a notice from Steam that his game was to
be removed due to copyright infringement
there do you have argued that the game
fell under fair use claiming the game
was a parody regardless the game was
taken down on pickle rack number eight
darkspore rarely has there been a time
where a game is so bad that the
publisher has to pull the game
themselves such was the case with EA’s
action RPG darkspore
when the game launched it was plagued
with bugs that would cause players to
lose their saved characters that is if
you could even log in oh and did we
mention the game required a constant
online connection just like SimCity two
years after release EA finally announced
it would be delisting the game from
steam while assuring fans it would
return sometime in the future spoiler
alert
it hasn’t unknown number seven
this was perhaps bonds worst outing
since the Timothy Dalton days in an
effort to ride the coattails of
goldeneyes successful remaster
Activision released double-oh-seven
legends and it was nothing more than a
highlight reel of iconic bond moments
I’ll beat in the form of a terrible
video game gone to mi6 I think there’s
more to Goldfinger’s operation than we
thought I’m going to investigate combat
was unbelievably boring and tedious and
the entire experience was about a shoddy
as die another day could you believe
they wanted to charge $60 for this
Activision released no statement on the
game’s removal which led many to believe
the games failure caused the publisher
to delist
all double-oh-seven games from Steam
it’s a plausible theory that may not be
confirmed for a long time
can I help you I want to know what
you’re up to with Goldfinger that’s none
of your business
number 6 racoon hero steam greenlight
wasn’t exactly a great platformer for
indie developers and it was easy to
exploit some of the flaws in the system
for example users could upload as many
games as they wanted to without any fees
or consequences one such convict of this
deed was a puzzle game called raccoon
within two weeks of the first game
raccoon hero spawned four sequels adding
to the already massive flood of
horrendous games clogging steam it was
also found out for being an asset flip
basically this was a game that was
copied and pasted number five right to
even though it’s been five years we’re
still shaking our heads right to hell
retribution was one of the worst games
of 2013 and for good reason
bugs bugs bugs bugs awkward sex scene
bugs bugs bugs another awkward sex scene
and the cycle continues publisher Deep
Silver never released an official
statement for its removal but we can
only assume one thing no one was buying
it because everyone knew how awful it
was and it wasn’t even laughably bad
swear to God
I’d rather be polishing boots and sit
through this crap number four Wild
Buster Heroes of Titan it’s not often
that you’ll come across an MMORPG that
looks surprisingly solid which is what
makes this all the more disappointing I
guess some of these kids might be
something some day did they keep their
eyes on the king and stay out of my way
the game wasn’t pulled because of being
abysmal in quality or suffering
technical issues nothing as damning as
some of the other entries on his list
instead it was pulled because developer
in Cell Games was caught manipulating
review scores employees of insel games
were asked by their CEO in an email to
buy the game and post positive review
scores on Steam or else they may not
have a job when the news broke steam
terminated in Cell Games Steam account
and removed wild buster from the store
what a shame
[Music]
number three day one
Gary’s incident and here we have one of
the most infamous games to ever disgrace
the platform after the late John Bain
aka totalbiscuit criticized day one
Gary’s incident for its Bunge state and
terrible quality developer wild game
studio filed a DMCA takedown on the
video in an effort to silence him this
did the exact opposite
prompting bata upload another video
showing the takedown while delivering
more criticism today I’d like to talk to
you about someone that’s not interested
and could see my protection created a
game that any sane person would consider
a terrible purchase the public outcry
that followed would force wild games to
retract the takedown
soon after this incident wild games was
caught manipulating the game score on
Metacritic be a big accounts no
statement was made on the game’s removal
but these scandals were probably its
undoing number two pairen article
para nautical activity may be available
to purchase but for a time the game was
removed and it was because of a few
venomous tweets after its October 2014
launch the game’s lead developer Mike
Malbec became frustrated with valve for
mislabeling the game under early access
amidst his frustration he posted a
series of angry tweets towards valve
including a death threat against valve
CEO Gabe Newell you can guess what
happened next para nautical activity was
sold to a different developer digerati
who would add more to the game before
releasing it to the public again in
February of 2015
since the incident Malbec has expressed
regret in his actions no shit
[Music]
number one anything made by digital
homicide
digital homicide hasn’t become just a
joke among Steam users they’re the
laughingstock of the games industry
throughout the company’s two year
lifespan founders James and Robert
bromine shelled out dozens and dozens of
games ranging from absolutely broken and
sloppily cobbled together to outright
offensive and juvenile content the
company would soon crumble from their
inability to take criticism during their
infamous lawsuit against Jim sterling
the Romans attempted to sue over 100
Steam users on the grounds of personal
injury over negative comments steam
promptly responded by taking down their
entire catalog and terminating their
account and since October 2016 the
company is no more thank God for Jim
sterling do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
shelf be it physical or digital welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
controversial games removed from Steam
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at a
handful of games that had so many
problems they were forced to be pulled
from the steam store pages keep in mind
were only considering games that have
had official releases so active shooter
escapes the list by the skin of its
teeth some even creating a petition on
change.org demanding the video game be
pulled the petition garnered hundreds of
thousands of signatures number 10
abstract as him
[Music]
after hearing about this little incident
we’ve grown a little more cautious of
buying cheap games abstract ism was a
simple platformer that aimed to market
toward players looking for an easy game
on the contrary there was more inside of
the games files
turns out the game was part of a scheme
to turn players computers into
cryptocurrency mines designed to scam
players with fake DLC for other games
developer Ocala Union tried passing
these files off as necessities to start
the game but this wasn’t fooling anybody
and the game was swiftly delisted
minutes after the news broke
[Music]
number nine pickled Rick
[Music]
just because it’s a joke played out by
thousands doesn’t mean you can make a
game out of it especially if the joke
involves a copyrighted character in
November 2017 a developer by the name of
a debary EV uploaded a beat’em up game
called pickled rick piggybacking off the
pickle Rick joke from a certain sci-fi
cartoon
can you move can you fly wouldn’t be
much of a pickle if I could despite
getting attention from some big-name
youtubers better Jeff was quickly given
a notice from Steam that his game was to
be removed due to copyright infringement
there do you have argued that the game
fell under fair use claiming the game
was a parody regardless the game was
taken down on pickle rack number eight
darkspore rarely has there been a time
where a game is so bad that the
publisher has to pull the game
themselves such was the case with EA’s
action RPG darkspore
when the game launched it was plagued
with bugs that would cause players to
lose their saved characters that is if
you could even log in oh and did we
mention the game required a constant
online connection just like SimCity two
years after release EA finally announced
it would be delisting the game from
steam while assuring fans it would
return sometime in the future spoiler
alert
it hasn’t unknown number seven
this was perhaps bonds worst outing
since the Timothy Dalton days in an
effort to ride the coattails of
goldeneyes successful remaster
Activision released double-oh-seven
legends and it was nothing more than a
highlight reel of iconic bond moments
I’ll beat in the form of a terrible
video game gone to mi6 I think there’s
more to Goldfinger’s operation than we
thought I’m going to investigate combat
was unbelievably boring and tedious and
the entire experience was about a shoddy
as die another day could you believe
they wanted to charge $60 for this
Activision released no statement on the
game’s removal which led many to believe
the games failure caused the publisher
to delist
all double-oh-seven games from Steam
it’s a plausible theory that may not be
confirmed for a long time
can I help you I want to know what
you’re up to with Goldfinger that’s none
of your business
number 6 racoon hero steam greenlight
wasn’t exactly a great platformer for
indie developers and it was easy to
exploit some of the flaws in the system
for example users could upload as many
games as they wanted to without any fees
or consequences one such convict of this
deed was a puzzle game called raccoon
within two weeks of the first game
raccoon hero spawned four sequels adding
to the already massive flood of
horrendous games clogging steam it was
also found out for being an asset flip
basically this was a game that was
copied and pasted number five right to
even though it’s been five years we’re
still shaking our heads right to hell
retribution was one of the worst games
of 2013 and for good reason
bugs bugs bugs bugs awkward sex scene
bugs bugs bugs another awkward sex scene
and the cycle continues publisher Deep
Silver never released an official
statement for its removal but we can
only assume one thing no one was buying
it because everyone knew how awful it
was and it wasn’t even laughably bad
swear to God
I’d rather be polishing boots and sit
through this crap number four Wild
Buster Heroes of Titan it’s not often
that you’ll come across an MMORPG that
looks surprisingly solid which is what
makes this all the more disappointing I
guess some of these kids might be
something some day did they keep their
eyes on the king and stay out of my way
the game wasn’t pulled because of being
abysmal in quality or suffering
technical issues nothing as damning as
some of the other entries on his list
instead it was pulled because developer
in Cell Games was caught manipulating
review scores employees of insel games
were asked by their CEO in an email to
buy the game and post positive review
scores on Steam or else they may not
have a job when the news broke steam
terminated in Cell Games Steam account
and removed wild buster from the store
what a shame
[Music]
number three day one
Gary’s incident and here we have one of
the most infamous games to ever disgrace
the platform after the late John Bain
aka totalbiscuit criticized day one
Gary’s incident for its Bunge state and
terrible quality developer wild game
studio filed a DMCA takedown on the
video in an effort to silence him this
did the exact opposite
prompting bata upload another video
showing the takedown while delivering
more criticism today I’d like to talk to
you about someone that’s not interested
and could see my protection created a
game that any sane person would consider
a terrible purchase the public outcry
that followed would force wild games to
retract the takedown
soon after this incident wild games was
caught manipulating the game score on
Metacritic be a big accounts no
statement was made on the game’s removal
but these scandals were probably its
undoing number two pairen article
para nautical activity may be available
to purchase but for a time the game was
removed and it was because of a few
venomous tweets after its October 2014
launch the game’s lead developer Mike
Malbec became frustrated with valve for
mislabeling the game under early access
amidst his frustration he posted a
series of angry tweets towards valve
including a death threat against valve
CEO Gabe Newell you can guess what
happened next para nautical activity was
sold to a different developer digerati
who would add more to the game before
releasing it to the public again in
February of 2015
since the incident Malbec has expressed
regret in his actions no shit
[Music]
number one anything made by digital
homicide
digital homicide hasn’t become just a
joke among Steam users they’re the
laughingstock of the games industry
throughout the company’s two year
lifespan founders James and Robert
bromine shelled out dozens and dozens of
games ranging from absolutely broken and
sloppily cobbled together to outright
offensive and juvenile content the
company would soon crumble from their
inability to take criticism during their
infamous lawsuit against Jim sterling
the Romans attempted to sue over 100
Steam users on the grounds of personal
injury over negative comments steam
promptly responded by taking down their
entire catalog and terminating their
account and since October 2016 the
company is no more thank God for Jim
sterling do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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