Not all video games can be a big hit. Certainly, there are thousands of unmitigated digital disasters that received so much publicity only to fail to launch. But, with technology so advanced these days, what have been the biggest gaming failures of 2022?
To determine this, Crypto Casinos has conducted research on what releases of 2022 video games received the most negative comments. The ranking was based on four criteria, including the number of social media posts about the game, positive and negative sentiment on social media, and the number of Google searches.
Biggest Gaming Failures Overall
Overall, the biggest game flop of 2022 was ‘Martha is Dead’, with an overall index score of just 0.2871. Despite only being released in February, the horror-adventure game has only been mentioned in 33,552 social media posts so far this year, 31.30% of which are considered negative.
Also among the top 5 game flops of 2022 are the PC game, ‘Recipe for Disaster’, with an index score of just 0.3215, the RPG ‘Monark’, the sports simulation game ‘eFootball 2022’ and the PC and PlayStation game ‘DNF Duel’.
Biggest flops overall
| Rank | video games | Index Score |
| 1 | Martha is Dead | 0.2871 |
| two | Recipe for Disaster | 0.3215 |
| 3 | monarch | 0.3462 |
| 4 | eFootball 2022 | 0.5848 |
| 5 | DNF Duel | 0.6569 |
The biggest flops on Playstation
| Rank | video games | Index Score |
| 1 | Martha is Dead | 0.2806 |
| two | monarch | 0.3566 |
| 3 | eFootball 2022 | 0.6303 |
| 4 | DNF Duel | 0.6756 |
| 5 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel | 0.7135 |
The biggest flops on Xbox
| Rank | video games | Index Score |
| 1 | Martha is Dead | 0.2921 |
| two | Evil Dead: The Game | 0.7900 |
| 3 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel | 0.8146 |
| 4 | Microsoft Flight Simulator: Top Gun Maverick DLC | 0.9437 |
| 5 | eFootball 2022 | 0.9467 |
The biggest flops on Nintendo Switch
| Rank | video games | Index Score |
| 1 | monarch | 0.537 |
| two | hindsight | 0.685 |
| 3 | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes | 0.781 |
| 4 | Don’t Starve Together | 0.891 |
| 5 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel | 0.892 |
The biggest flops on PC
| Rank | video games | Index Score |
| 1 | Martha is Dead | 0.2889 |
| two | Recipe for Disaster | 0.3249 |
| 3 | monarch | 0.3458 |
| 4 | eFootball 2022 | 0.5844 |
| 5 | DNF Duel | 0.6624 |
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