BlackSoul

BlackSoul is an indie survival horror third-person shooter developed and published by XeniosVision as a PC exclusive title on February 27, 2014.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The game is literally a poor man's ripoff of Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
 * 2) The game was released shortly after the discontinuation of Games for Windows Live and uses it as its on-disk DRM. As a result, it may not run properly on newer PCs.
 * 3) The game can only run on Windows XP, Vista and 7, which is unacceptable as the newer version of Windows 8.1 was already released at that time and support for XP and Vista was about to be discontinued by then.
 * 4) The game does not support Intel chipsets, which is  the most common chipset in the world !
 * 5) Dull monochromatic colors as all you'll be mostly seeing are black and white.
 * 6) The graphics are very ugly and look like they came from a late 90's game.
 * 7) Terrible sound design for the entire game in general.
 * 8) Bad cameras that frequently point down to the ground for no reasons.
 * 9) A lot of the final paragraphs in the documents that you read in-game are unreadable as they go past the bottom of the screen.
 * 10) The maps are nothing but crude drawings on a piece of paper.
 * 11) Very bad level design in general.
 * 12) The music is annoying and very loud.
 * 13) Very stiff tank controls for the main character.
 * 14) The game always goes into a loading screen every time you enter a room, turning it into "Survival Horror Loading Screen Simulator".
 * 15) The first weapon that you'll obtain always mysteriously disappears after you pick it up, leaving you temporarily defenseless until you obtain a new weapon.
 * 16) Unforgiving and dumb enemy AI, as the zombies can randomly spawn in crucial escape points.
 * 17) Blatant Lies: XeniosVision promised to release patches to fix the aforementioned issues, but as of the creation of this article, there has been nothing from them at all, showing that the developer has all but completely abandoned the game.
 * 18) Disappointing and lackluster ending.
 * 19) Speaking of zombies being unforgiving, since due to a bad programming its nearly impossible to get them off the character, once they grab them and start biting. Every grab is a 98% guaranteed game over. What makes this problem even worse is that there are female zombies who can run.
 * 20) Some puzzles can be so confusing, that there is a "help" option that allows you to skip them.
 * 21) You can change between fixed camera and first person camera, but both options are awful in their own ways. Fixed camera's positions are often really awful and also can cause cheap deaths, especially if considering the problem with zombie grabs and running female zombies stated above. First person camera on the other hand fixes that problem, but also makes the game much easier, since you can see the zombies and make headshots, and it also ruins the scenery at some parts, such as zombies that are supposed to make surprise appearances.
 * 22) The mysterious disease's backstory is explained in the game files that you can collect in the game, but its really cliche and poorly thought. Besides, none of the mentioned characters play any important roles in the game, nor they are covered or mentioned outside of that story.