2025 Game of the Year Awards — Achievement Awards

This year wasn’t a small year for disappointing games. From poor launches to terrible content and buggy and glitches releases from the start 2025 was one of the worst. Games just keep getting bigger and buggier and harder to develop and it just seems like a never ending cycle. Instead of picking outright terrible games I wanted to go back to the actual disappointing part. Games that were decent, but didn’t live up to their hype, potential, or pedigree.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Bloodlines 2 is probably one of the most disappointing games ever released. Not only was it in a decade long development hell cycle, but it just didn’t capture anything that made the first game charming and well regarded today. The boring combat, buggy and glitchy mess, uninteresting story and characters, and the awful paywall issue leading up to launch didn’t help. Here’s to hoping another game in the series can fix things up.