Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The video game industry has a long and legendary history of awful names. Several developers have spent literally millions of dollars on otherwise excellent games just to slap the most staggeringly awful title on the final product.
Boring names are common enough, with tepid words like War, Quest or Royale thrown in there more as a tone setter than anything remotely interesting. Then there's the wild stuff! Metal Gear Rising: Revengence is a truly mythical example, and the recently announced Metal Gear Solid (Delta Symbol) is raising smirks in its pseudo-intellectual absurdity. But if you look hard enough you can find some wonderful gibberish out there. UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Latest is a real game that exists, and despite how good it may be, even the most confident and knowledgeable of us would struggle to explain what that's supposed to mean. Imagine your da finding that.
So there's a lot of room to work with on this topic, and multiple interesting angles to attack it from. If you want to know our picks for the best game with a terrible name, you should listen to The Best Games Ever Show. Luckily for you, you wouldn't be reading this if that wasn't literally what you were doing right now.
The video game industry has a long and legendary history of awful names. Several developers have spent literally millions of dollars on otherwise excellent games just to slap the most staggeringly awful title on the final product.
Boring names are common enough, with tepid words like War, Quest or Royale thrown in there more as a tone setter than anything remotely interesting. Then there's the wild stuff! Metal Gear Rising: Revengence is a truly mythical example, and the recently announced Metal Gear Solid (Delta Symbol) is raising smirks in its pseudo-intellectual absurdity. But if you look hard enough you can find some wonderful gibberish out there. UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Latest is a real game that exists, and despite how good it may be, even the most confident and knowledgeable of us would struggle to explain what that's supposed to mean. Imagine your da finding that.
So there's a lot of room to work with on this topic, and multiple interesting angles to attack it from. If you want to know our picks for the best game with a terrible name, you should listen to The Best Games Ever Show. Luckily for you, you wouldn't be reading this if that wasn't literally what you were doing right now.
