Oh I thought of a couple more cancellations that really hurt.

Star Wars KOTOR 3. After the incomplete ending of KOTOR 2, I was looking forward to the story continuing in 3, which was in development and had a lot of assets, quests, and characters already completed, but LucasArts canceled the game to restructure the studio.

WipEout for PS4. Studio Liverpool was working on a couple of games for the launch of the PS4. One of which was a WipEout game, which is one of my favorite franchises. Of course, Liverpool got shutdown after the release of 2048 on the Vita. What could've been.

I have been on record for this one since I came to this site.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII. I bought a PS3 for this game. I never buy consoles before a game I want is released anymore. The game has to be out.

It would have been much more interesting if the game had been released as intended, but there's a significant chance that, from all the original plot leaks we've seen, it would have turned out worse than XV. Of course, though, execution is everything, so who knows.

OT - Star Wars 1313, Starcraft: Ghost, the new Perfect Dark, Silent Hills.

Beyond good and evil 2 hurt me the most. Still hurts thinking about it

Forgot about Factions II. Would be my most played game this gen no doubt even if it was just half as good as the original. Less pay to win DLC I’d hope. Still not sure why Sony didn’t just have a couple support studios launch it and support it.

The new Perfect Dark game that was in the works. It looked promising, and I had spent 20 years waiting for a new PD game, especially after the disappointment that was PD Zero. The original is one of my all-time favorite games, and I'd love to see a modern entry done well. Doesn't look like that's happening now. :(

First and foremost Van Buren, the original Fallout 3 before the publisher went under and Bethesda got their hands on the IP and ripped it apart.

KotOR 3 is the next one in line, KotOR 2 is one of the best games ever, so the cancellation really hurt.

Dungeon Keeper 3 got cancelled so Bullfrog's employees could work on the Harry Potter and Lords of the Rings games.

The original Baldur's gate 3, subtitled The black Hound, got cancelled in 2003 due to Interplay losing the right to develop AD&D titles. (Not so) Fun Fact: The development team then moved to develop Van Buren, but you can see above how that one turned out. Also had a former US president as project title just like Van Buren, in this case it's Jefferson.

Also notice that it's almost always the third in a series that is affected.

East vs West was supposed to become the finale of the Paradox Grand strategy titles (finale because you can start in Crusader Kings, import the save into Europa Universalis, then into Victoria and then Hearts of Iron to end up with a radically different map), but it got cancelled because Paradox had many delays in the project and probably simply couldn't make it work properly in the engine of Hears of Iron 3.

Finally Command & Conquer Generals 2. EA cancelled the game just mere weeks from release apparently because of the poor reception of the open Alpha test, though programmers hinted at the actual reason of EA just being EA and cancelled the game on a whim.

While we're at it, due to having been pretty active on Kickstarter during it's heyday 15 years ago I have several games that are left in unfinished states by their original developers. Godus and Godus Wars (Molyneux overpromising and absolutely couldn't deliver, and even made it worse with each update), King under the Mountain (Found a publisher a couple years after the Kickstarter campaign, but just a year later said publisher pulled the plug and the rug from under the developer), Worlds of Magic (Developers saw that they couldn't make it work and gave keys to another game, Planar Conquest, instead; though both games seem to have an active community these days)...

Sega leaving the console business. While technically not a game, it certainly caused most of their games to either die, or mostly suck for the rest of eternity.

A few mentioned games. But for some reason when the Wii was announced the game that I was looking forward to the most was Project H.A.M.M.E.R. I don't really know why but the thought of going around smashing things with a giant hammer by swinging the wiimote felt really fun to me in a mindless way.

The fact we never got a VanQuish 2 sucks shit ass. The best playing TPS ever made.


A recent DMC clone came out called Soulstice in 2022. It's a really good game and the best western attempt. Ends on a cliffhanger. Found out a month or so ago the sequel was cancelled.