Konami's eFootball Is Steam's Most-Hated Game Right Now

 

 

Konami’s long-running football simulation series underwent a name change this year, going from PES to eFootball. But this rebranding didn’t cover up the development deficiencies, as evidenced by frustrated Steam fans who are sharing their frustrations for what many say is “the worst football game” ever released.

 

 

eFootball 2022 is a free-to-play soccer game (which contains loot boxes) developed and published by Konami Digital Entertainment. Despite launching on September 29, it already has an “overwhelmingly negative” rating. The self-proclaimed “Hall of Shame” site Steam250, which tracks which games have the worst reviews by calculating the percentage difference, reports that eFootball 2022 sits in the top spot. Out of over 7000 reviews, the game has only some 1600 (or roughly 8%) positive votes as of this writing.

 

 

Criticism of eFootball 2022 touches on just about every aspect of the game. Some say it “lacks content left and right” (including Fanbyte’s Nicholas Grayson), while others call it a “mobile game.” Then there are those who levied more articulate complaints on things like the game’s engine and lag.

 

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— nicholas grayson (@godsewa) September 30, 2021

 

But maybe the most scathing—or funniest, depending on how you look at it—review comes from a user named Hypnora. They joke that eFootball 2022 is a “psychological horror game” perfect for people who “consider breaking the keyboard or throwing the controller out the window” while gaming. They also say the game somehow “carefully blurs” the line between gaming and politics, but don’t clarify the specific connection.

 

 

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