Games I wanted that never came to be.

Also known as vaporware, or just straight up cancelled projects. Game development is hard, sometimes things don't work out sadly.

Divinity: Fallen Heroes
Divinity: Fallen Heroes
Deep Down
Deep Down
Starcraft: Ghost
Starcraft: Ghost
Star Wars: 1313
Star Wars: 1313
Prey 2
Prey 2
Beyond Good & Evil 2
Beyond Good & Evil 2
May still exist, been in dev hell for years. Whatever results won't be the game fans want anyway, it's Ubisoft.
Alice: Asylum
Alice: Asylum
Castlevania: Resurrection
Castlevania: Resurrection
Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun
Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun
BioShock Vita
BioShock Vita
LMNO
LMNO
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake
May still be in development? Seems uncertain and with a different team?
Deus Ex: Insurrection
Deus Ex: Insurrection
Little Devil Inside
Little Devil Inside
Adding this until I hear otherwise. I kickstarted it too :(
Eitr
Eitr
Not officially cancelled I'm aware of but I first saw this at the Sony 2016 E3. It's been 8 years.
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake

28 Comments


3 months ago

Isn't Beyond Good and Evil 2 still in development? I don't see any reason why Duke Nukem Forever can eventually come out but Beyond Good and Evil 2 can't.

3 months ago

@HylianBran - I trust Ubisoft about as far as I can throw them. If it ever comes out I'll consider taking it off the list but what they have shown so far isn't Beyond Good & Evil anyway, It's just something else with the name attached.

3 months ago

I tried making a list like this once, but then realized that about 80% of the games I wanted to include don't have backloggd pages, and I didn't feel like adding them.
The big one I can think of for me is Alice: Asylum. Just officially got cancelled a couple months ago, EA sucks ass as always 😔

3 months ago

@NOWITSREYNTIME17 - Ah good call, I was gutted about that one too! I really liked Madness Returns! adding that on here thanks.

3 months ago

@molochthagod - I basically created this list to remind myself I was looking forward to Divinity: Fallen Heroes and anything else I added was a bonus that I could think of if it had a page.

3 months ago

For me, it's still Mega Man Legends 3. They had a whole pre-alpha prologue/vertical slice in the works, perfect for the early 3DS eShop, and Capcom still canned the whole thing just to spite Inafune. What a waste of budget and the developers' talents.

3 months ago

We lament together the loss of Prey 2... gosh, imagine what it could have been...

3 months ago

@PasokonDeacon - I have no doubt when I finally get around to playing the first two games, Legends 3 will enter this list. Heard so many good things about them.

3 months ago

Here's a suggestion: Unreal Tournament 4, also known as Unreal Tournament 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_(cancelled_video_game)

They never did develop past the June 2017 demo version, and now you can't even play that because the servers got shut down early last year. A real shame considering we might not see anything from the franchise for years to come.

3 months ago

@FallenGrace my only experience with Divinity games is a demo of Beyond Divinity I played as a kid, which at the time I couldn't understand lol. But I've been meaning to properly check the series out some day. Been hearing a lot of positive things about it. It sucks that they canceled Fallen Heroes.

3 months ago

Fallen Heroes still hurts...

3 months ago

PT, dude...

3 months ago

Gonna assume Project GG is gonna be this for me soon enough

3 months ago

@PasokonDeacon honestly if I were in their position... well I wouldn't cancel a game over Infaune considering other people were working on it too but I would be very upset at him.

3 months ago

Not enough people submitted free art assets to Joseph Gordon-Levitt i'm afraid...

3 months ago

man what bethesda did to human head and prey 2 makes my blood boil

3 months ago

No loss ever hurt me more than Scalebound...

3 months ago

@Drax - I didn't know this one existed. Not a series I much care for though I did have a good time with III when it first came out. Played it on a friends PC and still occasionally say "humiliation" to myself when I do an FPS melee kill.

3 months ago

@curse - It was absolutely shameful, disgusting behaviour. I love Prey 2017 but Prey 2's setting was really something else.

@RoyalFury - It's a real shame they just couldn't get it to work overall. The concept is excellent.

3 months ago

hitting me with the deep down entry, way early in the boom of the souls copycat craze (despite probably not being much like it at all)

3 months ago

Fallen heroes, SC ghost and prey 2... I still wish released somehow. Probably in an alternate timeline I bet they were bangers, but here I guess we'll never know.

3 months ago

@Detectivefail - So much potential there gone sadly. Some of the ideas will live on in other titles I think, certainly with Prey 2.

3 months ago

I don't know a lot about the whole situation with Prey 2 but it looks like most of the really expensive stuff (as in, stuff that costs lots of fucking money) would have already been done, right? I'm sure the game would have been successful, especially with the influx of first person shooter adventure games around the time (fallout 3 and bioshock to name a few). I just really don't understand why they wouldn't use all this stuff that's already been finished

3 months ago

@HylianBran - You should read up on it. Bethesda's treatment of Human Head was pretty awful. Short version is they denied them milestones of payments to try and bully them into being bought out after the contract for Prey 2 being the only game they were allowed to work on. Bethesda is a trash company and always have been.

I don't know how much of the game was actually finished, how much work it would take or who could have done it. Only Ex-Human head or Bethesda staff could tell us I'm afraid.

3 months ago

@FallenGrace darn. I don't really understand why they didn't let them finish it though. There was something about troubles with the engine they were using being difficult to work with by the replacement developer but Bethesda never had to give it to them anyway. Bethesda is not just sensisely evil, they're evil because they like money. And I can't imagine this game not being profitable considering how many heads it was already turning. I understand that e3 demonstrations are meant to disguise the parts of the game that are not polished yet but just based on the amount of detail I have to imagine that it was fairly far along at that point. I'd just really like to speak to the guys that made the project go under because the cancellation is still baffling to me. Like, why cancel a game that was attracting lots of attention which is also a sequel to a successful game?

3 months ago

@HylianBran - What Happened to Prey 2. essentially it was heavily customised tech that only Human Head really knew how to use at that point. I recommend watching this to get a bigger picture of the situation.

27 days ago

Added Panzer Dragoon Zwei Remake. I have a feeling that's vaporware at this point as the developer made / announced several other games since.


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