Without wishing to sound entitled – it’s worth reiterating that unlike those clunkers mentioned above, this is free – that decision was a mistake. It’s an annual tradition that Konami gets its football game out before EA’s, and sure enough eFootball 2022 preempted FIFA 22 – by a single day. Put simply, this glorified demo patently wasn’t fit to be released. Konami’s sequel to Pro Evo doesn’t plumb such depths – but it’s still dreadful. During PES’s lifetime we had to endure Pure Football, and O’Leary Manager 2000, and Chris Kamara’s Street Soccer, and the genuinely unplayable Xbox 360 version of FIFA 06: Road To World Cup.

I can confirm that it doesn’t fare much better on console, although there’s a sizable dollop of recency bias to social media claims of it being the worst football game ever made. Overall eFootball 2002 is classed as ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’, and by some metrics, it’s the worst Steam release of all time.

Of the 16,000+ user reviews so far, just 10% are positive. You’ve likely heard about the Steam feedback by now.

Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC

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