10 Greatest Video Games Never Made

By Shaun Munro /

4. Sadness

One of the very first titles announced for the Nintendo Wii, and frankly, one of the few I was actually looking forward to playing, Sadness aimed to be a realistic survival horror title that relied more on psychological scares rather than overt gore. The game was to be entirely monochrome, evoking a gothic feel, but more impressively, would use the Wii's motion-sensing apparatus to interact extensively with the environment. Players would be able to use the Wii-mote to turn any of the environment's objects into weapons, and early presentations for the game received nothing but positive press. However, the game soon became infamous because the developers, Nibris, never once showed off a single scrap of gameplay, and the game entered so-called development Hell. Nibris eventually dissolved, and with it, any and all promise that Sadness would actually be released.