Gaming had a strong year in 2018, but it wasn’t all good. There were a few missteps along the way, and these were the worst of them.

Overall, 2018 was a good year for gaming. It gave us a long list of absolutely fantastic titles, including our favorite RPG. It saw developers continue to push the boundaries of the current generation. However, it wasn’t all sunshine and bunnies. A few games flopped, a few studios closed and some companies just really don’t get their fans.

Here are three of what we thought where the biggest gaming disappointments of 2018. Unfortunately, there were other less than joyous moments throughout the year, but these three take the cake. Only it’s the worst kind of cake there is.

Fallout 76

Multiplayer games tend to have rough launches, but few match the absolute disaster that Fallout 76 was – and continues to be. Even buggier than Bethesda’s usual release, the game produced some of the most spectacular errors and issues that spilled beyond the bounds of the game itself.

In game bugs like players become immortal, nukes crashing servers and worse were one thing. However, at one point it was impossible to uninstall the game, and later the problems spread to the support site. Users could briefly see the tickets and personal information of others, including full names and addresses.

Bethesda felt so bad about Fallout 76 that they gave players three much better Fallout games to apologize.

Diablo: Eternal

Good news, a new Diablo game is being made! Bad news, it’s for mobile.

Wait, Diablo 3’s final expansion was canceled for this? With Activision squeezing Blizzard the company already has plenty of problems to deal with, and they announced Diablo: Eternal at the worst possible time. Diablo 3 has been a rollercoaster in terms of popularity. Upon launch, it was widely criticized for the real-money auction house and poor balance.

Reaper of Souls completely reworked the game and made it an experience to rival Diablo 2. For a long time it soared, but then content support just dried up, and these days it’s stale and stagnant. A new expansion would have helped and would have made sense from a story standpoint.

Blizzard botched their chance at regaining goodwill with Eternal however, and even coined the highly memed “Don’t you have phones?” phrase.

Telltale Games

Telltale Games shutting down was a big disappointment in and of itself. The company produced some of the best-written games of the past few years and took its licensed properties in interesting, unique directions. The worst part of it all was how the employees were treated, however.

Let go suddenly, without warning or severance, and the former Telltale devs were practically abandoned, leaving many with 9 days of healthcare coverage left. Many other devs pulled together and got most of them rehired, and then the project to finish The Walking Dead gave more of the jobs as well. However, this case perfectly showed why game devs need to unionize.

Feel free to share your own disappointments of 2018 in the comments. Here’s to a better 2019!