10 Crowdfunded Video Games That Never Saw The Light Of Day

10. The Stomping Land

Goal: $20,000 – Raised: $114,060

The Stomping Land was released on Steam Early Access following a successful crowdfunding campaign, and managed to generate a considerable degree of buzz.

Essentially a multiplayer survival game about dinosaurs, the game was receiving a good amount of traction, and seemed to be coming together into something rather promising. That is, until the founder of the company, Alex Fundora seemingly disappeared, abandoning the project entirely.

According to several sources, Fundora started ignoring communications, refusing to pay employees and contractors for their work on the game, all in a desperate attempt to disown the project.

Since then, numerous backers have attempted to obtain refunds, but none have managed to achieve any degree of success. In reality, the company is dead, the project abandoned, and the creator physically unavailable, meaning any chance of a refund is increasingly unlikely.

Clearly, Alex Fundora wanted nothing to do with The Stomping Land, and was willing to tarnish his reputation just to escape the ailing venture. In the end, this was not only unprofessional, but downright dishonest, and while the game might be resuscitated in the future, it will never escape the infamy of its defeat.