Games problem children 2024: winners and losers of the second half of the year

Micha and Fritz regularly dissect five problem games for the next half-year in our problem children format - and then evaluate their worries. New episodes appear exclusively for GameStar Plus for a week, then for all users.

The problem children have a plus tradition: Since 2017, Fritz and Micha have been gathering five games every six months on GameStar TV that they are worried about. After six months, an evaluation is made: Which candidates did surprisingly well, and which, as expected, were disappointing?

New Problem Children episodes are available both as videos and as podcasts.You get both for a weekexclusively at GameStar Plus, then you can listen to new episodes for freeGameStar Podcastand see themGameStar Talk on YouTube.

As always the note:Our problem children don't necessarily have to become bad. They can certainly be good games, but they are developed without the market or their potential target group in mind.

The golden rule of problem children
No game can be pilloried twice. If we have already discussed a game in a previous episode, it cannot appear a second time. Even if our worries still apply because it hasn't appeared yet.

Problem children as videos and podcasts

Here you can find the Worry Children episodes, which were also published as podcasts. You can also download the podcasts by clicking on the blue button. On most browsers you have to right-click and select the “Save target as” option.

Alternatively, of course, there is ours, with which you can download all new podcast episodes directly to your smartphone.

Winners and losers of the second half of 2024

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