15 Games That Turned It Around After a Rough Launch

These 15 games may have launched to lukewarm reception, but post-launch updates and improvements have turned them into hidden gems worth revisiting.

Posted By | On 17th, Apr. 2025

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Assassin’s Creed Unity

A game crushed by its own ambition, 2014’s Unity caused Assassin’s Creed’s reputation to plummet, with follow-up Syndicate coming a year later bearing the brunt of players burned out Unity’s technical fallacies, from game-crashing bugs to bizarre, face-erasing textures. Now, in the time since release Assassin’s Creed Unity has been patched to within an inch of its life, and together with modern hardware presents the freewheeling jaunt through Paris as one of the best entries in the long-running stealth series.


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