9 Video Game Failures That Made A Mockery Of Kickstarter

9. The Stomping Land

What it was: An ambitious open-world survival game where the most valuable resource wasn't money, but the ever-so-tasty offcuts of dinosaur corpses.

The Stomping Land's Kickstarter gained huge traction for its unique gameplay proposals - food chain mechanics, co-operative raiding of other player camps, etc - and hit Steam early access shortly after reaching its funding goal.

Why it failed: Prior to soft launching on Valve's service, Stomping Land's creator Alex Fundora promised a smorgasbord of content updates would follow. None of them came to fruition; Fundora upped and vanished off the face of the Earth shortly after the dino survival sim went on sale, leaving behind naught but a hollow shell of the game he'd promised to deliver a year prior.

What happened to Fundora?

There's no absolute answer, but if a series of comments left by a character designer on the game's official forums (via Eurogamer) is anything to go by, it's hardly a stretch to suggest the illusive man legged it with any potential profits, never to be seen again.

Valve has since pulled Fundora's unfinished work from sale, but here's some buggy gameplay for your viewing pleasure.