The Most Broken Games Of 2021

From Battlefield 2042 to eFootball 2022 , this year saw some games get released in a very broken state

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By Levi Winslow Published December 14, 2021 |

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Let’s be honest: 2021 saw a number of games get released in a pretty shameful state. None were nearly as busted as the catastrophe that was—still is?—CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, but this year’s crop of broken games was atrocious all the same. And though some eventually got patches that fixed various issues, there’s no undoing the fact that the games on this list weren’t ready for mass consumption at launch. So let’s look back, shall we, at some of the most busted games of 2021.