In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

I really hate the Xbox system names.

2017's Prey

The names aren't terrible by themselves but it really sucks that the critically acclaimed narrative space puzzler "outerwilds" released the same month as the open world space rpg "outerworlds".

Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it's true)

A lot of JRPG's with weird punctuation and seemingly neverending titles or made-up words.

• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Re:Chain of Memories and Dream Drop Distance and χ Back Cover and 0.2 Birth by Sleep and Re Mind and -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX- and HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
• Legend of Fantasy: Monstrum Refantazio
• Death end re;Quest
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation
• UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late and II Sys:Celes
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army
• .hack//G.U. Last Recode
• void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2
• Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator and lots of other Atelier games
• Divine Divinity
• Infinite Undiscovery
• Various Daylife
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
• Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroes Defeat The Devil King.

Braid. Sounds like a dress up game but it's a puzzle platformers about time travel. I always have to explain it every time I talk about it

All games and movies that reuse the same name as the very first title in the franchise to make a "fresh start" while spitting on the original.

Hahaha a few come to mind from the NES and SNES era.

"Hey punk! Are you TUFF-E-NUFF?" comes to mind.

Edit: was missing the first part of the title. Thanks for pointing it out! 👍

FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch

Such a stupid and contrived name.

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.

Anything with a subtitle that isn’t a sequel or licensed game.

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
• Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain
• Condemned: Criminal Origins
• Immortals: Fenyx Rising

That sort of thing.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. After it was banned in India, and bought back, it was called Moba Legend. Both the names are terrible.

Triangle Strategy

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactics_Ogre

Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy

Bravely Default is pretty bad too

Bang-On Balls: Chronicles

It sounds like either a throwaway mobile gacha game or an epic CBT adventure porno, but it's actually a pretty good 3D platformer.

I also found Death Stranding to be weird.

It's like... Death coming ashore?

I mean I get that it's about this whole concept of people having their own beach when they die or being able to travel to other people's beaches or something weird like that. But they're really pushing it with that title.

And also the fact that Death end with 'th' followed by a word starting with 's' makes it really difficult to pronounce.

Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would've been better received if it were named basically anything else.

I hate SuperGiant's naming scheme. Bastion? Transistor? Pyre(i couldn't even remember this one)?? Hades??? Cmon man, your company isn't called Giant but SuperGiant, make it stand out as your company's name!

X4 Foundations. I have probably 500 hours in it and still don't know what it really means. But it's a unique and interesting game.

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Just Cause. I actually like the series as a kind of brain-off game, but I always read the name as "just cuz".

AaAaAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity

Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.

• Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PSX, 1997)

anno.

If you know a little of spanish is just sounds awful

“Echoes of the Plum Grove”. Sounds like they asked ChatGPT and went with the first suggestion.

All of them that are so generic I gotta add "the videogame" to when I'm googling.

Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.

Ordered the Peri Peri Chicken Club at a cafe today as it reminded me of a strangely named game.

Ubuntu have had some weird-ass names for their titles (Warty Warthog, Edgy Eft, urgh) and the games themselves have been pretty lacklustre.

There was this one level where you had to rearrange icons to the left and it just looked stupid. Unity or something.

Red Dead Redemption 2. It's not a sequel. Love the game though.

Civ