The port that fans fought so hard for. After a petition of nearly 100,000 signatures, the people at Namco Bandai listened and announced that Dark Souls would be coming to the platform. The PC gaming community cheered. As more information about the port were unveiled, the cheers began to quieten. FromSoftware announced that the port would not support 1080p resolution and would stay at the native resolution of the console versions, it would also be locked to 30fps. Lastly, it used the universally despised Games for Windows Live DRM system.

Luckily all was not lost, mere moments after the game was released on PC, mad modder Durante released a mod known simply as DSFix, this fix allowed people to unlock the framerate and set the game’s resolution to 1080p. The game still had issues with PVP connectivity as well as playing awfully on mouse and keyboard, but the main gripes were saved by the modding community. Keep up the good work, oh noble modders.

Before Capcom learnt their lesson by releasing Resident Evil 4 HD for PC back in 2014, all the PC gamers had was regular Resident Evil 4. Despite being one of the most beloved titles in the series, the PC port for this title was pretty darn bad. The controls were awful, if you didn’t play the game with a gamepad it was near-impossible. Cutscene quality was very poor and game would constantly crash.

Though this is a terrible port, there’s an explanation behind it. The PC version of Resident Evil 4 was a port of the Playstation 2 version, which in itself was a port of the original Gamecube version of the game. This makes the PC port the port of another port. You can sit there all day making your absolutely hilarious port-ception jokes, but this doesn’t stop the fact that the PC port for this title was absolutely awful.

PC Gamers usually have to wait a bit longer for the new Grand Theft Auto title to appear on the platform, the wait was much longer for GTA V, as GTA IV’s PC port was released within the same year of the 360/PS3 version. The other difference between GTA V and GTA IV, was that the port for Grand Theft Auto V was actually good, Grand Theft Auto IV, was not. Hence why it appears on this list.

Grand Theft Auto IV was a horribly optimised game, it required an incredibly high-end system to play, on top of that it was also riddled with bugs and plagued with frame rate issues that made the game entirely unplayable to many PC gamers.

This is what many gamers consider the pinnacle of terrible PC ports. Similar to GTA IV, the title was plagued with frame rate issues, some that couldn’t even be fixed by turning down the graphical settings. Gameplay would speed up on random occasions, controls didn’t work well and constant crashing.

Modders tried to fix this game, and they did make some improvements and fix a few bugs here and there, but even a strong modding community couldn’t save the dire port of this title, which is a shame as Saints Row 2 is actually a very fun game.

Seriously, if you thought Arkham Knight was bad, try playing Saints Row 2 on PC.

Ah, Watch Dogs. When it was first unveiled at E3, it had so much promise. It looked beautiful, the gameplay looked like a new, unique take on the open world, sand box game. Instead it was a poor port of a GTA-style game about having a really cool smartphone.

I’m not here to talk about what it’s like as a game though, I’m here to judge the PC port alone. The PC port was also pretty damn terrible.

The optimisation of this title was very poor, even when people upgraded their rigs to play this title, they still found issues playing this title at a suitable frame rate. On top of this was the issue with Ubisoft removing features from the PC version, which were found by PC gamers. These features were shown in the E3 footage but removed from release for reasons unknown.

Well those are the 5 worst PC ports I have experienced, I know there a whole lot more out there. If you recall a PC port that was especially horrible, be sure to put it in the comment section.