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Essays 29 December 2021, 20:00

author: Darius Matusiak

The Worst Games of 2021 - Very Non-definitive Edition

The awards ceremony for the best games of the year is over. But what about the worst? Since there's still no equivalent of the Golden Raspberries for games, let's use our list of the most disappointing releases of the past year as a guide.

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Of Bird and Cage

  1. Release date: May 20
  2. Developer: Capricia Productions
  3. Platform: PC Windows
  4. Average rating on Metacritic: 44/100

Of Bird and Cage is an extremely ambitious project that was to initiate a completely new genre – an interactive musical, a kind of action adventure combined with a rhythmic game. The plot was inspired by the story of Beauty and the Beast, and the soundtrack used heavy metal songs prepared by quite a supergroup, including Ruud Jolie from Within Temptation, Rocky Gray from Evanescence, or Ron Thal from Guns N' Roses.

The great soundtrack turned out to be, unfortunately, the only bright point of this production – although the selection of songs does not always fit the story or – even worse – can make you frown. The rest of Of Bird and Cage is a textbook example of how not to make games. The graphics are ugly and sloppy, the plot touches on serious topics, not taken very seriously, the gameplay is full of lame QTE sequences and breakneck attempts to add gunfighting and driving mechanics to the whole, the roughness of which is hard to describe. The game seems to be a failed amateur experiment in which everything went wrong.

  1. Of Bird and Cage in our encyclopedia

Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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