GeoGuessr Is Already Steam’s Second Worst-Rated Game Ever

Summary

GeoGuessr’s Steam release faces backlash for requiring a $2.50 subscription to access higher-level competitive play.
Its resulting review bombing has been so bad that Geoguessr is now ranked as Steam’s second-worst game ever.
That puts it below high-profile disasters such as the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection and Dauntless.

GeoGuessr’s long-awaited Steam port has been a complete disaster. Shortly after the game’s launch, it was bombarded by negative reviews over the game’s monetization, as players fought back against the $2.50 subscription service you have to pay to access anything beyond the lowest rank of competitive gameplay.

Despite the devs explaining that this is just the early access version of the game, and that it will keep “expanding and improving both the free and paid experiences”, the negative reviews have been flowing in steadily. In fact, they’ve been so frequent that GeoGuessr has now earned a very unwelcome accolade.

GeoGuessr Is Already Steam’s Second Worst-Rated Game Ever

A screenshot from GeoGuessr, showing a random location from Google Maps. It is a street view of a street with cars parked

If you check out Steam250’s Bottom 100 list, which lists the worst games ever to grace the storefront, you’ll see that GeoGuessr is now considered the second-worst game ever to release on Steam. Rocking a score of just 1.67, GeoGuessr now finds itself rated lower than complete disasters such as Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection (which was unplayable at launch), and Dauntless, which self-imploded last year.

Geoguessr Charactar looking sad in front of the map

GeoGuessr’s Steam Edition Ports The Worst Elements Of The Game

GeoGuessr is coming to Steam. Unfortunately, it’s bringing a lot of baggage along with it.

Thankfully, there is one game sparing the blushes of Geoguessr and stopping it from taking the top spot, and that’s War of the Three Kingdoms, an MMO with horrendous monetization that was considered too severe even for China. Since the hate for War of the Three Kingdoms will likely never be topped, Geoguessr is ranked about as bad as you can get these days.

We’ll have to wait and see whether Geoguessr is able to claw its way out of the Hall of Shame, though given that the $2.50 subscription fee probably isn’t going anywhere, that seems pretty unlikely at this stage.