Interpol

Some games baffle us by merely existing, and yes, Interpol, you are one of those games. A simplistic Where’s Waldo–style puzzler, it imagines that you’re a detective catching crooks…by clicking on static, cluttered images to ferret out a handful of objects from the massive horde of debris scattered everywhere. But instead of giving you gorgeous, high-res images to pore over, Interpol uses muddy, cruddy graphics that wouldn’t tax the processors of a SNES.

And while there’s some pleasant trickery afoot (finding a radio can mean finding the word “radio”), there are way too many dark, unfairly obscured objects that you’d never find without the help of the clue system, which essentially spots you a few objects per level. Hey, we figured out where Waldo is: running in the opposite direction!