10 Upcoming Video Games Being Sent Out To Die

10. Skull & Bones

We'll be seeing Ubisoft on this list a number of times, beginning with a game that also showed up on last year's list - Skull and Bones.

Announced way back at E3 2017, the publisher's pirate-themed action-adventure game was effectively an attempt to spin Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's naval combat off into its own full-fat AAA title - an idea that, on paper, should've been quick and easy.

Yet Skull and Bones missed its planned late 2018 release, with word going quiet until the end of 2020, when it was said to have been rebooted with a "new vision."

Last summer it was finally dated for November 8 of that year, but was ultimately pushed back to March 9 of this year, before recently being delayed again to a vague "2023-2024 fiscal year" date.

It's painfully clear that Ubisoft has a dud on their hands here and will eventually just put it out to be done with it.

Ubisoft needs to release it eventually as the game was heavily subsidised by the Singaporean government, but with anonymous play-testers recently suggesting it's still in rough shape, it's not looking like it'll enjoy a phoenix-like resurrection.

Expect Skull and Bones to unceremoniously slither into storefronts sometime over the next year-or-so - if the new release window sticks, that is - and be quickly forgotten amid a whiff of indifference from critics and players alike.