I guess it's okay to bump this? I have a few "Shitlist Games". Oh boy, here we go!
Escape Dead Island - Holy shit, where do I begin? This was supposed to be kind of a spin off of the Dead Island franchise, and the only game in the franchise after Dead Island: Riptide (RIP Dead Island 2 still in development hell). While the original Dead Island its expansion had its problems, it was at least fun and sort of a more RPG-like version of Left-4-Dead (skill trees, specialties with weapons and unique benefits, etc). Escape Dead Island tried to take the series, which was NEVER about stealth, and make a stealth game out of it.
This concept would be fine, except it rarely (if not never) works. It works (kind of) in the tutorial, but outside of that good luck actually getting the stealth mechanic to work. Your weapon of choice to kill the zombies (stealthily) is a screwdriver. A fucking screwdriver. Now, I dunno who made level design, but the fact the actual Army Knife is so hidden within the first level that one can miss it and easily have the inferior melee weapon in the game is beyond stupid. It's been a while, but I also don't remember really any guns (if they were useful or not) either. It was mainly melee and horrible camera angles that often fought with you.
The ugly cell-shaded look also was a departure from its "realistic" looking predecessor. They tried to make it a comic book style - possibly wanting to capitalize on The Walking Dead's game? I dunno. The plot makes no sense either and I can barely remember it. The voice acting is terrible, your character's motivations make no sense. And the final boss is not clever or using any sort of mechanic you learned along the way. It is literally trial and error. And the developers had to know this, considering there is a checkpoint for each phase. Each. Fucking. Phase.
ARK: Survival Evolved - I hate this game. I hate, hate, hate it. I hate how tedious it is. I hate how poorly optimized it is. I hate that it tries to take Survival and make it not fun. I hate the fact that I bought it. I hate the fact it came out with a $30 DLC before it even left Early Access. I hate the fact that, from what I hear, it essentially got kind of abandoned for a pirate game that's basically ARK but with pirates. I DO NOT recommend this damn game to anyone, especially with those who have limited time or value their time outside of playing a tedious video game.
Payday 2 - I initially liked this game. I liked the concept, a co-op heisting simulator with friends or strangers. Then, after a long while, it stopped being fun. Glitches were everywhere, random failing of heists because suddenly a guard can see you through a wall. Not to mention heavy desync with the other players. The AI is also about as useless as Left4Dead's if you played by yourself, too. Then there's the money grabbing DLC that's still being produced even now. They even released a GOTY Edition, which did NOT come with everything as they had to release an Ultimate Edition to "guarantee" even future DLC. No one who already owned the game or some DLC were even offered a discount. You had to pay full price, again, to get the Ultimate Edition. It's being kept artificially alive this way, especially since their road to 1 million heisters way back when reached several goals they still haven't implemented. Then there's the Overkill vs. 505 Games microtransactions debacle. God, this is one of the only (if not few) games where the developers nerfed weapons so far that default skinned shotguns were lower damage than an unskinned pistol. To fix this, you could obtain little vaults, similar to the crates in TF2 or CS:GO. But it cost money to open them AND the skins gave benefits - like more damage! It wasn't just cosmetic! It gave an advantage!
Insectiside: Part 1 - Well, this can be summed up as a port of a Nintendo DS game that was never fully finished. While the concept is interesting, the game itself is boggled with problems. It's only 5 missions long, with one missing being a long cutscene (Hideo Kojima, eat your heart out). It has horrible FMV compression for its cutscenes with jarring audio so different from actual in game audio. The camera fights against you (which seems to be a theme here). The jumping is delayed, and it's not at all obvious on where to go half the time. The difficult ramps up and ramps down, surprisingly, even though it's a short as hell game. The reason why I say it's unfinished? Because Part 2 was cancelled. Possibly before the PC port was even a thing. Ugh.
Survivor Squad - Ugh. This is the most boring, uninteresting zombie game I've played. It's so generic. It's 2D from a top down perspective, which I generally find lazy and half-assed. You control a squad trying to survive a zombie outbreak and you do the usual things you expect in this genre by now - survive, move forward, survive. It's just so boring and unbearably repetitive. The multiplayer sucks, too. Instead of allowing co-op, all it allows is one player to be the survivors, the other to be the zombies. That'd be fine if it was an optional mode in multiplayer, but it's the ONLY mode. Which sucks.