A couple I can remember really enjoying at the time that were not well reviewed and yeah probably are bad.

• Resident Evil: Outbreak
• Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain

I don't remember a whole lot about either of these but do remember playing them a lot.

Final Fantasy XIII I don't think it's actually a bad game, and thought so at the time too. There's a lot of revisionist history with this one. I see so many discussions now of people being like yeah it's a great game I love it. Where were all these people at when it came out? XIII-2 is...weird. I think I prefer XIII, but like both. I've never finished Lightning Returns but enjoyed what I played.

Drakkhen

Okay, as a Sonic fan, I can say with confidence that Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) was a very rushed game and a lot of fans don't like it, but I love it. Partially nostalgia and partly loving buggy messes you can sometimes break in your favor.

Same could be said for Sonic Lost Worlds, which has my least favorite special stages on the 3DS version specifically.

Low bar to clear, but it answer the question easily.

For me it would be Dungeon Siege III, specifically in co-op. From what I understand people dislike it for its differences from the previous games in the franchise, and even that aside it is fairly janky and unintuitive. But if you can laugh at the unintuitive jank then there's plenty worse games out there.

Empire total war on release, the battle AI was absolute garbage to the point where you can just start as the Netherlands, walk over to Paris and take their country.

Before everyone researches fire by rank you could just spread out the infantry and have 2x firepower. Cavalry charges straight into you, pathfinding was so bad that you'd have a single column of men moving through a wide area. Fucking loved it though, it was a grand strategy spectacle and naval battles felt intense.

I had fun unlocking the pirates via config file edit and spamming out general units from a single buccaneer sword infantry and took over all of the Americas.

The Close Combat series up through maybe Close Combat III really wasn't incredibly-well balanced. Like, if you're playing on defense, a lot of the game basically consists of having a badly-outnumbered force, setting up an ambush with as much of your force as possible, opening up all at once when the other side is badly exposed and doing as much damage as possible. Then watch the game, and maybe once things have mostly died down, one moves a few units to reinforce.

In III, retreating as far as possible without losing an operation to get a ton of reinforcements, then pushing back through, is advantageous.

A lot of the game is about sticking heavy tanks on hills with good lines of sight.

I mean, there are just ways to play the game that the AI does not deal with well.

But I still had an absolute blast playing it.

The AI for Wargame: Red Dragon is pretty disappointing, and I generally don't like playing games multiplayer, but I like the game enough that I was willing to just play against the AI. There were major improvements by Eugen in Steel Division 2

it's a far better game to play single-player. So...as a single-player game, I'd say that W:RD is a pretty bad game, but...I still really enjoyed playing it single-player.

It's been years since I played it, but Ephemeral Fantasia was this kind of fever dream of a RPG on the PS2 that I remember enjoying that had a time loop thing like Majora's Mask. I think I was actually sick when I played it so that added to the fever dream vibe.