Which game(s) do you regret buying?

Well, there are a lot of small indie games that just litter my library after 5-10 minutes of playing, but at least these were cheap. Then there are cases when I was stupid enough to ignore bad reviews - like Might & Magic X. But the purchase I probably regret the most is Bioshock bundle. I couldn't enjoy the first game to an extent that I thought maybe there was something wrong with me, and I'll definitely never touch the next two parts of the trilogy.

The Escapists 2

So bit of a backstory: I used to love the first game (the escapists) and made so many custom prisons. A lot of people also downloaded it wich made me happy and willing to make more prisons. However, my latest prisons got corrupted so it had a lot of bugs in it I couldn't remove. I tought "hey, I'll just make some more prisons at the new game."
But then I remembered, that I didn't even like the game that much. I was happier making prisons instead actually playing them. So I never really gave the second game a try because of that.

Day Z. I got killed a few times, switched from server to server to get some good stuff. Once I was ready I chose a spot to camp, got bored after 15 minutes of wait and gave up.

Tom Clancy’s The Division™ Gold Edition for € 99.99. The game was great, but I just lost interest after finishing the main story; so the whole "gold edition" was not worth it at all for me and it also took a long time for new content to get added. Another reason was due later on sales -- I could have gotten it probably way cheaper would I still have had interest. Didn't make the same mistake for Division 2 when that came out and I've just got myself the base game for €39.99 for that.

Battlefield V, reach lv8 on MP then, zip, zap, uninstall.

Football Manager 17.

I love management games but I kind of forgot I hate football.

preordered space marine. waste of 50 dollars.
mtg dotp. these mtg adaptations are horrible.
orcs must die. tried to get into it but i don't like it.

The first Styx since its the only digital only ps game that I hate and paid over 10€ for. Garbage stealth mechanics with boring environments and a "plot"? held together by shoestrings

I'm not gonna win many friends with these two, and they're not really big regrets but more "I should have used my seasonal sales money on a different wishlist entry" but :

While not the worst by a long shot, I found Hellblade : Senua's Sacrifice to get old very quick, and the atmosphere wasn't enough to carry it alone. I usually like the psychological aspects and a certain amount of uncertainty and mystique, but without enough grounding it just becomes a speedbump. The rendering of the protagonist and their issues was great and all, but combining a world of actual(?) supernatural aspects alongside frequent hallucinatory aspects, and the lack of gameplay or puzzles that really felt fulfilling? Eh. It caused a bit of 'sales regret', where that cash could have been used to nuke another wishlist entry.

I'm currently at a similar point with Nier Automata, which I haven't yet finished (still playing as 2B atm). For all the amazing audiowork, polished visuals and variety in setpieces, the pacing of the games objectives, abundance of grindish sidequests, lack of personal grounding or sense of connection (that lack of empathy, dang androids), it just hasn't left me feeling engaged. I can't even put my finger on what I feel is so lacking either. The combat is just sorta there. My inputs change the outcome, sure, but the floatiness, design choice for levitating weapons, and just... ehhhh. Maybe I just focused too much on sidequests. Maybe the tone of humour and the disconnect of the robots perceptions / cuteness just doesn't work for me. There's definitely something there, but it feels like a lack of structure or real reward or even a point, y'know?

I'm going to finish it eventually, go back with fresh eyes. At worst, I'll get to bask in the soundtrack some more.

• Simcity (2013) and all the DLC at full price.
  Played 11 hours and never came back. It was so bad. Dunno if refunds existed back then but I never did anything about it.

• The Political Machine (2012)
  why did I spend money on this

• Hitman Absolution's DLC
  I don't think I ever even saw/used it.

• Starbound
  played like an hour and quit back to Terraria

• All the money I spent on Smite

• Undertale
  couldn't get into it

pre-order dirt rally
i cant play it, its so hard..
only play around 10mnt and i give up xD

Offworld Trading Company. I can't blame it for being something other than what it was advertised to be, but it definitely didn't click with me. It was just so boring to me. I want to say shallow, too, but I know people will tell me I'm wrong, but that's just my opinion and experience with it. It was not at all interesting.

Rogue Legacy. Just not right for me. Maybe I suck at this genre, but I did not get past the first boss after many generations, and progress was very slow. This was several years ago, but even back then, I didn't have tons of gaming time, and I just don't want to throw hours at it with very little progress, while not enjoying hitting my head against the wall over and over.

Borderlands 2
It was just really repetitive and boring with zero decision making, even with a friend..

bioshock collection, and I regret because I bought the 0 dlc included collection :P (bought it on steam)

Now, when I had a ps4 I bought AC syndicate for 70€, big mistake.
(Someone didn't like my answer lul)

Battlefront 2

Uhm garrys mod, wt* is that game even?
Oh and sims 4 + some expansions ive bought in a frenzy hoping it would be as good or better as the sims 3, boy was i wrong.

Fallout 76 was on sale for 5 euro at a store in my town. In less than 2 hours of playing I crashed twice, found many many unkillable monsters (roaches that stayed on a sliver of health etc) and fell through the ground numerous times too.

Just Cause 4. The game is just a massive downgrade from JC3. Boring, ugly and buggy game.

The Last of Us on my PS4. The reviews and what I've heard were so incredibly good! To me its just a boring sequence of cutscene after cutscene with boring gameplay.

every game

I've preorderd only 3 games in my entire life. And I regret getting each and every single one of them.

Fallout 4.
Batman Arkham Knight.
Borderlands the presequel.

Every single one of them was absolute trash that I wouldn't recommend even when on a 90% sale.

But I've learned my lesson. NEVER pre order a game.

I'll add one that just popped to mind: Factorio.

I looked and I've just played 38 minutes of the tutorial. The game has so many fans that absolutely love it, but I knew it was a mistake pretty quickly. I got the sneaking suspicion that "There's no way I'm going to play this." Maybe I'll go back to it, but it just wasn't what I was imagining. I'd had alot of fun with a game like Infinifactory so I thought Factorio would be a match, but unfortunately not. (I bought on Humble too, so no refund, bummer). I do have Satisfactory so hoping it' s more of what I'm looking for.

Overkill'd the walking dead...for those money like 40 euros preorder,would've gotten sekiro or others also way better than TWD :|
I expected it to be more like State of Decay 2 /1, not like Left4dead1/2 etc..pfff

Assassin’s Creed:Origins

I struggled to think of any games on PC which I guess is a positive sign. :D But eventually thought of a couple:

Sakura Spirit when it was first released and super hyped up, definitely expected more interaction and a bit of a story but well, we know how wrong my expectations going into it was.

Also Let's Sing, it's not the most responsive/accurate game and often the lyrics were a second delayed. So either you have to sing before the words pop up on the screen or just extend the words to make sure you get the bar filled in time (ie: "have a good timeeeeeee..come on". This made it much more difficult for songs you didn't know the words to already, because you're guessing ahead to a song you have no clue how it goes, automatically getting punished (or have to cheese it). The pitch was off with some songs, where the singer clearly goes higher yet the game says it doesn't. The low-pitched songs always said I was off as well, even if it was a talking bit and I spoke with it. Spent $12 on it, not worth.