It may have been a buffet year of endless hit games, but 2018 was also a year where disappointment was regularly served up on a plate. We’re not talking bad games here, but rather those games that failed to live up their own hype or even the most tempered of fan expectations. Whether they were unpolished, woefully lacking in features or simply just a chore to play, here’s a look at 2018’s biggest disappointments.

Dontnod's mixed blood-sucking adventure, Vampyr, is making the jump to Nintendo Switch in the very near future.

Dontnod Entertainment’s Life is Strange found a considerable fan base despite its shortcomings. The drop in quality of Telltale’s work in the field of episodic adventure games left a nice niche for the prior’s hella (ulgh) mysterious millennial journey and cemented the title as a franchise. The studio’s latest work, however, is of a different nature.

Vampyr is trying its best to make its killing feel like a moral decision. But one side definitely looks like a whole lot more fun.

In Vampyr, you'll need to feed if you want to get ahead in your new undead life as only the freshest of blood will keep you alive for the challenges ahead. Human or monster? The choice is yours.

Developer DontNod's previous games weren't system killers when they released on PC. You can expect the same then with their upcoming Vampyr game, which won’t suck too much juice out of your rig.

Troika’s Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is one of my favourite RPG experiences – so any games that feature vampires, particularly those have an RPG bent to them get my attention. Naturally, I’ve been keeping a beady eye on Dontnod’s Vampyr for ages. The game tells the story of Jonathan Reid, a doctor in in a post-Edwardian London. The city’s stricken …

Vampyr looked like top-notch stuff from the studio that brought us the criminally underrated Remember Me. Only problem? Vampyr needed to spend some more time in the development coffin. DONTNOD’s nocturnal adventure finally has a release date though: June 5.