Games that have world building, plot, or stories completely kneecapped by their game play.

Fucking Blue Prince

So much went into this game yet fucking nothing can be capitalized on and it pisses me off. This was the first puzzle game where I grew more and more annoyed with the secrets I uncovered because you can't fucking do anything with what you find out.

Major spoilers so fuck you if you spoil yourself.

Okay so Simon is the one true heir of the original kingdom, your mother broke her back to get the crown for you and through other plot you are in control of the original castle and other royal artifacts. You have everything, the crown, the bloodline, noble title, the scepter, original black prints, multiple deeds / wills that give you the land in different ways under different legal systems. You have all the soft power in the world. You have all the symbology that could possibly be handed to you and you can't do a fucking thing with it all. Soft power is worthless without hard power and Simon has fuck all. He is a 14 year old kid with a handful of servants. His family is dead or bunkering in foreign lands. Hell he can't even try to get a foreign nation to help because the grounds for his ascension and claim ALSO gives him claim over those other nations, and they wont risk endorsing him for him to come right back around and use their own endorsement against them.