10 Recent Games That Suddenly Vanished

Battlefield 2042 player base suddenly vanished

I'm surprised there wasn't a bigger mention of Dead Island 2 other than an honorable mention! That game was announced way back in 2014 and it has been nothing but crickets since then other than a few confirmations that it still exists from devs.

Vampire, the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 vanished, too. The First release Date was around the time Cyberpunk 2077 should have been released at first, they were even very active with online events etc. until they announced they had to push their release date back, too. It went from first quarter of 2020 to last quarter and then to tbd. Afterwards it vanished from the face of the earth

On top of the big ones other people have mentioned in the comments, I'm surprised the list didn't include Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, where we got an update in February of 2021 that Hardsuit got released from development and, much like some of the other games in the list, the only evidence to suggest it hasn't been dropped is quarterly earnings statements that Paradox Interactive has released and a vague Twitter post essentially saying "Don't worry. It's still in development. We just don't want the new devs to worry about anything except making the game."

TES6 didn’t really “vanish.” Bethesda was pretty upfront that it wasn’t coming for a very long time. That it was really in a pre-production phase until Starfield was almost done. They only put the teaser out to shut people up.

I feel that all the Fable fans out there have been waiting for a while for a new release. Definitely excited to see what Playground studio will be giving to the community.

How about "WiLD", that game looked real interesting.

I love how Perfect dark and the initiative was supposed to be the first AAAA game but majority of the developers have quit and they are now relying on another developer to help.

0:00 final fantasy XVI 1:28 Beyond Good and evil 2 2:37 Hollow knight silk song 3:26 Prince of persia sands of time 4:44 Skull and bones 6:00 Obsidian's new game 7:46 everwild 9:10 Hytale 10:12 Perfect dark 11:28 metroid prime 4

It was a game for PS3 called "City of the Metronome." I loved the art style and couldn't wait to play it. Then it vanished. The devs behind it later went on to create Little Nightmares 1 & 2, which were great. It's easy to see how the work on City transformed into those games, but there's still something about the initial game's original style that makes me still want it.

My big 3 we've really heard nothing about are the System Shock remake, System Shock 3 and Vampire the Masquerade 2

i can't believe jake didn't even mention the vampire masquerade : bloodline 2, not even in the bonus mention, guess that game goes in the dark figuratively and literally

You know what is sad? That Half Life 3 isn’t even part of the conversation anymore. The granpapa of missing games. The holy grail. It’s been so long that we have an entire generation of new gamers that have never even heard of it.

Beyond Good & Evil is one of those games I will always hope truly exists, just the small gameplay trailer we got all those years ago is constantly in my head and I just hope I get to play it one day.

Something funny about Everwild is that months after its announcement the developers commented they still had no idea what kind of gameplay the game will have :/

Mewgenics by Edmund McMillen/Team Meat. It's been in development for well over 9 years at this point, it's been cancelled, rebooted, and completely changed numerous times, and it still is supposedly at least another year or two out (but they have been posting development updates on Twitter finally).

Y'all should do a Top 10 (or Top 20) games that had the most significant art styles or technological breakthroughs. Like hearing Silent Hill 3 doing the moving walls in the otherworld, which was the first of its kind in all PS2 history, or LA Noire for having uncanny valley facial animations, or also Cuphead for having the most retro-modern art style.

I have a lot of faith in FF16 considering the team working on it. They have shown to be really passionate about FF and with experience working on FF14, I just feel like they earned and continue to earn this faith in them.

Metroid Prime 4 is definitely a big one. Been waiting for a new entry in the series for a very very long time. Never gotten anymore than their word that it's in development. Luckily we've had other great Metroid games in between, but still been a hell of a wait.

I would absolutely LOVE a modern Perfect Dark! Right now, if I want feature-rich, fun as hell FPS action, I go to the Borderlands games. But, the biggest thing about PD was how the levels were such interesting puzzles. I think it would be hard to create a fast paced puzzle FPS that isn't just another Immersive Sim (Deus Ex, Dishonored, and the rest). Doubly hard because all the free stuff that PD would throw at you for completing levels is usually the kind of stuff that carved out for DLC. They could borrow a bit from Borderlands and let you earn some things and pay for others... I feel like greed is king, in todays gaming market, though...