The Best of the Worst

There is a form of multimedia entertainment, beyond that which is good. These games are as vast in number as they are terrible. They dwell in the dark recesses of history, between money grabbing developers, low quality textures and non-existent plots. Unearthed from the pits of the bargain bin after years in exile. These are the games of horror – This is garbage game night.

LATEST GARBAGE

Most Recent Episodes

The gang dives into Apple Arcade Games trying out Fox’s Warped Kart Racers and Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Frank Hosts this week’s two-for episode!...

October 10, 2023

From the most wishlisted game on steam to announcing sunsetting 12 months later, what happened? We do a shallow dive into what the game was and what happened in this video podcast, meanwhile the gang ...

September 1, 2023

Launched in 2021 and scheduled to shut down in June of 2023, Knockout City is a frantic play ‘dodgebrawler’. In this episode we check out what the game is all about, it’s struggles t...

March 29, 2023

It was 1993 and rodents with attitude were all the rage. In this episode of GGN we take a look at 3 of the brand mascot characters that never quite took hold. We reviewed ‘Awesome Possum Kicks D...

March 9, 2023

A mere 200 days after launch the world’s best (?) Melee-focused, Wrestling-themed BR is shutting down. Did it deserve it? We do a deep dive, from the rafters, on Iron Galaxy’s Rumbleverse ...

February 24, 2023

In 1994, at the peak of the 90s NBA-mania, EA had a simple idea: take the most popular big man in the league and put him in a street fighting game. The game was met with confusion and criticism, but m...

February 9, 2023

Happy Holidays! It’s GGN’s inaugural Garbage Gift Night! We got each other steam gifts under $5. How did we do? Crypt of the Necrodancer, Framed, and more. Did we find some gems or some co...

December 28, 2022

Its a holiday episode celebrating the Emmy, Grammy Oscar and Tony winning hit 1996 film Jingle All The Way. Frank very quickly explains the plot of the film in a 5-minute film section then we jump int...

December 8, 2022

“IT LOOKS LIKE BIOSHOCK!” everyone said as they set their expectations far too high for a indie studio game. Compulsion Games took that as a challenge and stepped up their development, par...

November 10, 2022

Coming out days before the second Zombieland movie, the dev’s managed to snag 1 of the 4 main cast members and created a twin stick shooter using the characters signature moves such as… ma...

October 20, 2022

Chess 2 is finally here. Your loyal subjects have abandoned you and you’ve taken down your royal shotgun. Rapid arcade developer PUNKCAKE Delicieux created this game within 72 hours and dropped ...

September 29, 2022

We let Frank host again, for episode 69. Frank takes us through the saucy history of adult video games and manages to make the time fly while we unlock these anime girls from their prisons. Why was th...

September 15, 2022

Spellbreak is the latest, and perhaps best Battle Royale-focused game to announce they’re calling it quits, so you know the GGN crew is sweeping in to pick up the scraps. We check out Proletaria...

August 18, 2022

AAA developers set the bar high with expectations and flop, but what if a developer doesn’t have a bar at all? Havishamone Games presents Candice Debebe an incomprehensible character and world o...

July 14, 2022

The groundbreaking franchise Battlefield is back with it’s newest entry and things are… not going well for them. The garbage gang checks out this massive online FPS, that is, if our comput...

June 8, 2022

Resident Evil, beloved father of the survivor horror genre has spawned a monster. In this 20th anniversary game for the franchise, Capcom attempts to turn the game into an e-sports shooter. How did it...

May 26, 2022

After nearly 7 years in development, the SEGA published Aliens game developed by Gearbox emerged from it’s incubation in 2013. The world did not like what it saw. It was savaged in reviews after...

May 5, 2022

In the year 2002 the Army needed to fill it’s ranks with 80,000 soldiers. So what is a recruiter to do? Create a video game! The Pentagon funded project America’s Army began in 2002 and ha...

April 14, 2022

Frank hosts in this look at everyone’s favorite and most lovable IP, Popeye. Who could forget the classic characters such as Bluto, Olive Oyle, Swee’Pea, and Wimpy. Well, we had, so Frank ...

March 31, 2022

Set in 1977 this game tells the rise to fame story of Georgio Manos, arguably the world’s most famous revolving chauffeur. While driving people around the town of roundabout, players will learn abou...

March 17, 2022

Using the power of video games Raya Systems (later, Health Hero Network) was on a mission to teach kids about Diabetes, Cigarettes, Asthma and Diabetes again. We cover the entire library of games from...

March 3, 2022

Hatoful Boyfriend, otherwise known as the pigeon dating simulator has got us egg-cited. Let us take you under our wing as we explore this world of drama, mystery and egrets. Fortunately, there’s...

February 17, 2022

Ubisoft’s Battle Royale Hyper Scape was surprise dropped in July of 2020 on PC. Focusing on twitch integration it had success in it’s first month among the crowded field, but just a few da...

February 3, 2022

Spore, the 2008 Maxis game from famed developer Will Wright has a simple scope – ALL OF LIFE. With the largest scope of any game how could they possibly fail? The hype for this release was huge ...

January 20, 2022

Are you ready to KICK SOME BRAIN? Dexter the Dinodroid has crash landed on earth and needs our help to stop floating brains from zombifying dinos and bringing them into the 1940s. Does Frank know enou...

January 6, 2022

Happy Holidays! It’s GGN’s inaugural Garbage Gift Night! Each of us gave someone an interesting game from steam for under $5. How did we do? Did we find some gems or some coal? We talk thr...

December 23, 2021

One of the most influential and groundbreaking series has remastered 3 of it’s beloved games upon it’s 20th anniversary and… uh… why do their necks look like that? This week Ch...

December 9, 2021

On this 53rd episode spectacular the gang unwinds while we play some Powerwash Simulator, discuss the traumas inflicted upon us over the past 52 games, and try to wash it all away with a pressurized j...

November 25, 2021

It’s poker. You can’t screw that up, right? Brought to you from the folks who did the episodic The Walking Dead series, Tell Tale Games… GGN takes a look at their first foray into th...

November 11, 2021

It is STILL the spooky season. This week we take a look at a game so horrifying, so macabre, that it was a premiere feature of the 1993 hearings on violence in video games. How did an experience that ...

October 28, 2021

It is now the spooky season. Deadly Premonition has been called a game that ‘is so bad it’s good’. It’s fascinated reviewers for over a decade and even created a ‘directo...

October 14, 2021

The classic retro franchise Bionic Commando has been given the gritty reboot treatment! The gang GRAPPLES with the new super power of a bionic arm, tries to get a HANDLE on the web-slinging, and tries...

September 30, 2021

A game series about political espionage and stealth takes a turn to the… fence construction genre? This week we do a deep dive into this Kojima-less entry into the Metal Gear series, we talk ser...

September 16, 2021

This week, we embark upon a mysterious reboot of a game with 2016’s ‘The Ship: Remasted’. We discuss social deduction games, cruise ships and micromanagement. Did the developers gamb...

September 2, 2021

In 2006, we take a look to the distant future of… 2016… where we find out in… 2046 that the sun will turn red giant on us and cook earth? Can we defeat the sun? What is the AX corpor...

August 19, 2021

The Demon Rush: Legends Corrupt is, at the moment, a fairly unknown and un-reviewed game. It’s flown under the radar despite being an absolutely unique game with a very deep, hard to follow worl...

August 5, 2021

A government-sponsored game about going to the moon and repairing astroid damage to your base all while going far slower than you ever thought possible? Sign us up! We talk about government and moon g...

July 15, 2021

No Man’s Sky launched in 2016 after much hype about being a game that was going to provide an unparalleled gaming experience in space exploration. This week we explore the development, troubled ...

July 1, 2021

Usually movie tie-in game come out and they are underproduced bargain bin material. Rarely does a movie tie-in game come out when the movie has not yet been made and never was. The case of SpyHunter:N...

June 17, 2021

In a double-header, the gang tackles two games from 1994 that fuse ROCK N’ ROLL with video games. First, we take a look at a 3DO game called ‘Virtuoso’ in which ‘Our Hero&#8217...

June 3, 2021

Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is a game starring Marlow Briggs and a mask of death. It is difficult to summarize the self-awareness and joy that this game finds in it’s niche of over-the-t...

May 20, 2021

It’s Guess Who, but it’s got a sexually implicit name and is maybe a commentary on capital punishment? Frank hosts this 2015 game by the team who brought you Super Meatboy and The Binding ...

May 6, 2021

This week we dive back into the 90s childhood of Apple II games, among the Oregon Trail’s and Number/Word Munchers, you might have played a business sim called DinoPark Tycoon. This very early t...

April 22, 2021

This week we look back to one of the most unique games of 2009, Zeno Clash. From Chilean developer ACE Team comes an extremely unique punk fantasy first person fighter. It’s tough to be creative...

April 8, 2021

This week we take a run at running a slower life, the life of a modern day farmer. Will this simulator give us the pure unadulterated farming experience? Or is it another one of those farming sims tha...

March 25, 2021

In 2003 our favorite Slovokian Republic game developer, Cauldron, created a massive epic story that might have slightly been based on Total Recall. You are Chaser, or are you? and you are trying to fi...

March 4, 2021

In 1992 (or maybe 1993) Mario-mania was sweeping the nation. The educators wanted to get kids interested in learning again, and what better way to trick them then using the Mario Brothers. But enough ...

February 18, 2021

In a special Valentines Day episode, Carley hosts our second dating sim, targeting the most dangerous animal, dad. We play through the first couple hours of the game reading characters and learning ab...

February 4, 2021

Marco Polo? The guy barely traveled. Give us a real historical figure like Ibn Battuta to base a game on. The Saudi developer Semaphoor takes on their first full-fledged game using an episodic approac...

January 22, 2021

Things get furry as we explore the abandoned early access game Fur-Fun. Was there something tapped into with this game that was misunderstood? In the vein of Banjo-Kazooie it attempts to be the spirit...

January 7, 2021

For our 30th episode extravaganza we go big utilizing our skills from super seducer to try and seduce the biggest dreamboat of them all. Colonel Sanders himself. In this bizarre marketing campaign of ...

December 24, 2020

Frank hosts a double header of kart racing games. Starting with the mysterious Calvin Tucker, we race the tracks with a series of ‘redneck’ animals. Collecting horseshoes, spitting milk an...

December 10, 2020

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is the officially licensed video game of the Netflix hit, Narcos. Taking more than just notes from X-Com 2, this game makes some strange tweaks to the genre of tactical tur...

November 27, 2020

Tomato western saumari, mad scientist cucumbers, horrifying textures and incomprehensible story. The gang checks out the the low-budget game Tomato Way on Steam and try to make sense of what we’...

November 12, 2020

Hatred, the game some might know as the mass murder simulator gets reviewed. With a smaller crew of Tom and Hunter B., we discuss what makes a game get the rare AO rating, whether it deserves it, and ...

October 29, 2020

Alpha Zylon: there’s not a lot of information about this game, it just exists. Created and published by teams linked to such esteemed franchises as Road Rage and Bad Rats, this game might be the...

October 15, 2020

The series that founded ‘survival horror’ is back with a 2015 entry: Alone in the Dark Illumination. In this lovecraftian inspired game 4 plays do co-op to face off the angry hordes using ...

October 1, 2020

A Russian developer making an anime game inspired by Tomb Raider and Devil May Cry and a love of butts? You get the 2007, or maybe 2009 game XBlades. Starring Ayumi and her fantastic jeans, we take on...

September 17, 2020

Take inspiration from classic 3d platforms but also combine it with Dark Souls? That’s okay, but it could use an X-Factor… Guinea Pigs? Thus, G-Force was born. An alternate take on the end...

September 3, 2020

What happens when you take the splinter cell, cut out most of the features along with half the AI’s brain and drop it into WW2? Velvet Assassin! This week we discuss stealth mechanics along with...

August 20, 2020

Who doesn’t love Road Rash? What could you possibly do to screw up that formula? Well, we break down everything that did happen for 2017’s title, Road Rage. We discuss franchises that have...

August 6, 2020

A surprising hit franchise in the vehicular combat genre takes a nosedive into the worst reviewed games of all time. Hunter, Tom, Frank and Chris compete and destroy to see who can become the ‘f...

July 23, 2020

A movie which tackles the concerns about veteran mental health care and crooked cops turned into an on-rails FPS, what could go wrong!? The Garbage Game Night crew takes on the plot of Rambo 1-3 in th...

July 9, 2020

Revelations 2012 – the Mayan Murder Simulator… Can the garbage pail gang collect the crystal skulls and prevent the end of times? We explore this shockingly low rated game in a online co-o...

June 25, 2020

It’s known as a famously bad game on steam, a popular white elephant gift… but just how bad is bad rats? This week we discuss puzzle games while playing, what is perhaps the worst puzzle g...

June 11, 2020

This evening… We get explicit…. Who doesn’t want to hear Mickey Rourke curse at commies for just under 2 hours? Probably Commies. This week we review Bethesda’s stumble into th...

May 28, 2020

This evening.., I am going to make everyone so uncomfortable…. A game so dangerous it was banned from the Playstation marketplace. GGN takes on the cringey world of Super Seducer, a pick up arti...

May 14, 2020

Daikatana, a game that built far too much hype and was released a generation too late. Frank, Hunter, Tom and Chris check out this classic ‘bad game’ and give it a second shot, does it des...

April 30, 2020

Playing remotely, we brave the metro transit system on a bus, but have to figure out how to turn it on first. We talk all about sim games and when something even qualifies to be a ‘game’. ...

April 16, 2020

Dragon’s Lair, a 1983 Coin-op Game that has had 73 releases has also bravely faced a series of bad reviews from modern times. We take a dive into the history of this bizarre and innovative game ...

April 2, 2020

In a dystopian future of mechanical spiders and blatant ad placement, you are the Pre-Crime officer, John Anderton. You can stop any murder except…the one you’re going to commit? Only one ...

March 21, 2020

A game about a show about celebrities at the turn of the millennium. How badly could it possibly age? Tom, Hunter, Frank and Chris check out the 2003 classic Celebrity Deathmatch and create the first ...

March 14, 2020

What happens when you take the plot of Land of the Lost but send back Gears of War marines instead? Meet Jurassic: the Hunted, a game that gives you Nazi Zombies but with Dinosaurs and comes might tak...

March 7, 2020

Fight Club the movie was ostensibly about how bad ass it is to punch people and break bones, right? Enter Fight Club the Game. A PS2 masterpiece that arguably has some good ideas and neither embraces ...

February 29, 2020

Set to release election day 2008, you take on the role of a secret service agent who must protect the outgoing and incoming president from an attack. You’ve got enough attitude, but have you got...

February 22, 2020

Bruce Lee, a force on the silver screen comes to the most powerful gaming system available at the time – the Xbox original. Chris, Hunter, Frank and Victor go on an adventure of killing thousand...

February 15, 2020

Dwayne the Rock Johnson’s greatest role of all time, the Scorpion King has been brought to home console. Join Chris, Tom, Hunter and Frank as they ponder the existential questions of life and re...

February 8, 2020

Have you ever wondered how the color code named gangsters got from one place to another in-between the scenes shown in Reservoir Dogs the movie? Wonder no longer, Reservoir Dogs the game lets you play...

February 5, 2020

It’s a big job to tie up all the lose ends of the Fast & Furious plot, but if anyone can do it, it’s this mobile game developer you’ve never heard of. Released in 2013 on the Xbo...

February 5, 2020

In a era where it was a race to be more serious about WW2, this game asks the question – what if it were just a ton of fun? The Outfit was nearly a launch title for the Xbox 360 and used a uniqu...

February 5, 2020

The Garbage Valley™ Rating System

It’s not uncommon for us to find a game that is so bad it’s good. Through years of painstaking research and the brave sacrifice of many lab animals we present the Garbage Valley rating system. When reviewing games, you may think the worst rated are the best fodder, but you’d be incorrect. A game that is a true 0 (zero) is something so crudely assembled that no enjoyment whatsoever survives. A zero finds itself in the ‘garbage valley’ (similar to the uncanny valley affecting Tom Hanks in Polar Express, or Final Fantasy Spirits Within). However, if a game is bold in the way it is bad, if it is cannot stand the test of time, but pivots into a joke, it pulls itself out of the Garbage Valley.