7 of the Absolute Worst Video Game Worlds to Live in IRL

We love being immersed in our video games. Their ability to throw us into a world to explore for hours is easily one of the greatest strengths of the medium. However, even with those unlimited options, there are some video game worlds that would not be a pleasant place to live in real life.

Here are 7 of the absolute worst video game worlds to live in IRL.

Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto has always based its games on the real world.

Whether it was Liberty City and its likeness to New York, or even GTA V with Los Santos being a replica of Los Angeles, Rockstar has always found a way to bring reality to its games.

However, although Los Angeles and New York City are amazing places in real life, living in any world that is filled with as much crime and terror as the GTA games are would make for a terrifying experience.

Imagine driving down the street on your way to work when all of a sudden a man opens your car door, punches you in the face, throws you down on the street, and takes off in your vehicle as you watch him run into a crowd of pedestrians and crash a few moments later.

Not to mention the random guns just laying around all over the city for anyone to pick up, explosions happening left and right, and gangs roaming the streets waiting to shoot at a moment’s notice, living in the world of Grand Theft Auto would be hell on earth.

Horizon Zero Dawn

With companies like Boston Dynamics making more impressive robots every year and AI developing at a rapid pace, we inch closer and closer to the eventual robot takeover.

However, if any of these robotics engineers took the time to play Horizon Zero Dawn, they may have thought twice before developing something so dangerous.

Horizon Zero Dawn has shown us what it might be like if these robots take a dark turn and grow a mind of their own.

With giant dinosaur-like mechanical beasts roaming the wilds, survival would be near impossible for anyone not named Aloy.

Having to equip yourself with traps, hide in bushes, and carry weapons with you at all times just to go to the grocery store or to get your mail would make for an interesting experience, sure, but it would not be feasible for your everyday person.

Living in any post-apocalyptic land would be a headache, but fill that land with giant evil robots too? No thank you!

Fallout

Speaking of post-apocalyptic, the Fallout universe reminds us all just how devastating and deadly nuclear war can be.

However, unlike the real world, the radiation effects in Fallout have now turned our loving animals into bloodthirsty beasts, looking to kill anyone in their vicinity.

Having a rat infestation in your house or apartment is bad enough, but could you imagine having a Mole Rat infestation?

There isn’t a single exterminator on the planet that is equipped to deal with that. In the world of Fallout, you would need to hire a small army to take out a simple rodent infestation.

Have a nasty hornet’s nest perched near your front door? Nothing a can of RAID can’t take care of in the real world, but in the world of Fallout, it becomes a Cazador nest, where you literally will not be able to enter your home without some serious artillery to combat it.

That isn’t even mentioning the fact that all of the money you currently possess becomes useless, as now the main currency of the land is bottlecaps.

I hope you’ve been drinking plenty of bottled soda, because you are going to need those caps to survive in this radiated world!

Animal Crossing

You might be thinking to yourself that Animal Crossing seems like a lovely place to live IRL. However, take a deeper look and you will quickly realize that living there would be an absolute nightmare.

First of all, you are forced under the ruling thumb of the all-seeing Tom Nook, the unsuspecting cute Racoon that acts as a pseudo mob boss that is hellbent on keeping you under a loan system like a video game version of Sally Mae.

Secondly, the constant obligation of keeping up with your neighbors would drive you absolutely mad over time, making it easily one of the worst video game worlds to live in.

Sure, Agnes, I don’t mind getting you some fruit, but you don’t have to move out of the city just because I log off for a couple of days, jeez.

If you think your real-life neighbors are bad now, just wait until Filber comes crying to you because he doesn’t have a particular type of sofa in his living room.

Have you never heard of an IKEA, Filber? Why am I responsible for providing your home with furniture?

Borderlands

The world of Pandora is a desolate place filled with some of the craziest characters you will ever come across. Everyone in Borderlands is obsessed with loot, vaults, and of course, killing anything that stands in their way.

However, what would make Borderlands the worst video game worlds to live in would not be the constant murder, it would be the absolutely annoying dialogue that you would be subjected to day in and day out.

Sure, it would be nice to kill a Ratch and have one of a bazillion guns pop out of its corpse or a stack of cash to help you pay for college, but more than likely, you’ll just get stuck with an uncommon sniper rifle and a bunch of blood on your shoes.

Want to hear an endless amount of meme-like humor and boner jokes every single day?

How about having a robot named Claptrap follow you around delivering one-liners that make you want to claw your eyeballs out?

If that sounds like a habitable environment to you, then the world of Borderlands is the place for you!

Sure, the giant, bullet-spongey enemies will be there, threatening your life every time you decide to take out the trash, but nothing would be worse than having to hear the horrible “jokes” that come out of the citizens mouth on a daily basis, making it easily one of the worst video game worlds you could ever live in.

DOTA 2

Don’t get me wrong, being a hero in Dota 2 with magical powers or a giant sword would be pretty kick-ass.

However, once you realize your entire existence is limited to forcing your way down a lane to an enemy base for the rest of your life, the appeal of having magical powers wears off quite quickly.

Not to mention. if you thought that shipping via UPS or Fed-Ex was bad now in the real world, just wait until you inhabit the world of DOTA 2.

Need to buy something at the store?

Better hope your courier makes it to you without getting ganked by an enemy, or even worse, getting re-routed by your own teammates!

DOTA 2 can be a pretty unpleasant experience when you’re just playing the game on your PC, but trying to live there would be one of the worst video game worlds to inhabit.

Any Game with Zombies

Sure, we all love to believe that we are ready for the zombie apocalypse. We all pretend as if we know the exact course of action to take when the dead rises from their graves and is hungry for flesh, with some companies even selling survival kits for this very reason.

However, in reality, there would not be a single game that contains zombies that would be a pleasant place to live.

Whether its Dead Rising, Resident Evil, The Walking Dead, Dying Light, or Days Gone, each one makes it apparent that living amongst the dead would be a dreadful experience.

With how scarce resources typically are in zombie games, everyone would need to become a master at crafting.

Being able to combine nails and baseball bats on a moment’s notice would make you the new Elon Musk in a zombie-filled world.

So yes, keep pretending like you are ready for the eventual Zombie takeover, but after playing games like Zombies Ate My Neighbors or Call of Duty, we all know that living with the dead would be the end of us all.

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