Top 10 Worst Video Game Titles

You only get one chance to make a first impression, so obviously developers carefully consider all potential titles. Alternative approach: “Oh look”, the “V” on my keyboard is sticking and it just wrote out the letter six times. Well, why mess with a good thing, let’s just call it “VVVVVV” and never look back”. It’s a retro-style 2D platformer, and the title actually comes from the repeating v-shaped spikes that you have to avoid. We get the idea - it’s a playful nod to the simple, streamlined aesthetic of the game. But that’s like calling Donkey Kong Country “Barrels”. This game is actually fantastic, albeit very tough. The only thing tougher than beating the game is pronouncing it’s title.

It this a video game title, or a 4th graders math problem? The game’s advertisement shows the proper way to say it as you heard earlier … except that that word “Days” is clearly written AFTER the number 2, so if you were a casual consumer who happened to see this boxart, you’d probably think the title was “Three Hundred and Fifty Eight over Two Days,” or “Three Hundred and Fifty Eight divided by Two Days.” Within the game, and Spoiler Alert, Its revealed that Roxas quit Organization XIII in the middle of his 359th day with them? But then why not just say 359 days? Or better yet, just come up with a better title.

We cannot stress this enough - Just because you can run two words together to create a new hybrid word doesn’t mean that you should. “Sexperience”. “Eggspectation”. “Swordwarf”. Actually, that last one could work as a great metal band name, but that’s not the point. Revenge and vengeance are already pretty much the same word. “I will have my revenge!” “Vengeance will be mine!” - See? Synonyms. Maybe we expect too much from Metal Gear, a franchise whose overall excellence is only surpassed by generally poor naming of both their games and characters. I mean the words “Metal” “Gear” and “Solid” don’t exactly mesh well together, but we also have the subtitle “Ground Zeroes” we gotta draw the line.

Hey. Did you know that this game is about King Kong? Or that it’s an official game, but like, based on a movie? Oh, and that movie was directed by Peter Jackson. Apart from “King Kong”, none of this information is needed in the title of this video game. Most individuals would have managed to make those connections themselves, given that it was released around the same time as the film. And even if they didn’t make the connection, and for some reason cared to find out, the introductory paragraph on the game’s wikipedia page would’ve had it covered. Movie tie-in video games are rarely well-received, so maybe don’t draw attention to that fact with the world’s clunkiest title.

Square Enix strikes again! More often than not, poorly titled games fit into one of a few common cliche naming strategies. In the case of this Xbox 360 release, it falls into the “overly convoluted” cliche. At first glance, it looks like a potentially sophisticated title, but the veneer of big words wears off almost instantly. What does Infinite Undiscovery really mean? “Infinite” essentially means endless - going on forever. “Undiscovery” (which is not a real word) gives the sense that passed discoveries are being forgotten, or simply failing to be discovered at all. So, basically, the title of the game suggests that it consists of endless nothingness. In reality, it is an RPG. A forgettable RPG with an unforgettably bad title.

You had to expect at least one sexually suggestive title on this list. Picture this: You’ve created a mascot platformer that’s designed to be sold to kids. Now in an era where most parents would have made the purchases for their kids, how many would have purchased a game for their kid that sounds like a porn movie?. While not as raunchy as Tracy’s “Gorgasm: The Legend of Dong Slayer”, Wild Woody, released for Sega CD in 1995, must have raised a few eyebrows. I mean, you expect the opening cutscene to feature a muscular plumber or pizza delivery guy stumbling into a bachelorette party. The titlecharacter, Woody, is not in fact an actor in the adult entertainment industry. But he is still vaguely fallace-shaped - he’s a pencil. A really creepy pencil. Yeah there’s a good reason no one remembers this game.

Divine - a word so nice, they used it twice. Honestly, this title is so bad, it breaks all conventions, cliches or trappings of badly titled video games. Who in their right mind gave the okay for thistitle? Divinity is literally defined in the dictionary as “the state or quality of being divine”. So putting the adjective “divine” in front of divinity could not possibly be more redundant. It’s not like naming a flavor of ice cream “double chocolate”, in which you add chocolate chunks to chocolate ice cream, thus doubling the chocolate. Divinity is already as divine as it’s going to get.

Admittedly, this is more of a utility than an actual game, but when you develop something for the Nintendo DS and give it such a side-splitting, laugh-out-loud, “ no seriously, who got fired over this” title, you’ve earned a spot. “Touch Dic” is short for Touch Dictionary and is also the most misguided abbreviation in the history of consumer goods. Pair this poorly-titled product with say … a Fox News report about the potential for child molesters to use Nintendo DS to target victims, and you get a match made in Public Relations hell.

Here’s a tip: If your video game is about a dystopian world that has been ravaged by nuclear fallout, and one of the only remaining vestiges of human civilization are the island nations that the game’s hero must save, don’t BLOW IT by giving the game and islands a name that no one can pronounce – “Xike-zeees”. Released in 1990 for the NES, it’s honestly a pretty fun mixed platformer/shooter, with a good story. But with a name like Sex-Why-Zed? We’d rather let the alien robots destroy it, because humanity’s lost already.

Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

“Beyond the Beyond” (1996)

“ZombiU” (2012)

“htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary” (2015)

“Wargasm” (1998)

“Unpossible” (2014)


“Battlefield 1” (2016)

Ok So Our pick for the worst title is … get ready to sit down: