There are terrible bad games that you should avoid at all costs, mediocre bad games that disappear from your memory when they leave your field of view, and then there is the difficult-to-define good bad game.
We traveled to Chengdu, China, to check out Eclipse Glow Games’ debut game, Tides of Annihilation, and talk with the team about mixing Chinese action with the Legend of King Arthur.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds strikes a respectable balance between a fantasy RPG and survival crafting game, but could use a better balance between fun and tedium.
Some of the best stories in video games are completely optional to the player, like uncovering Doug Rattmann’s chaotic murals in Portal or the story of Ish in The Last of Us.