8 Amazing Video Games That SURVIVED Development Hell

7. Fez

But development hell sure isn't limited to the realm of AAA franchise behemoths - it also regularly happens to indie games created by as few as one or two people.

Case in point, the iconic 2012 platformer Fez was actually announced by designer Phil Fish five years earlier in 2007.

Soon realising he needed a second pair of hands, he recruited Renaud Bédard to handle programming.

The years that followed saw the inexperienced Fish and Bédard experiment with ideas, in turn burning through a Canadian government loan provided for development, before Québécois developer-publisher Trapdoor stepped in and rescued the game from cancellation.

This wasn't the end of the turmoil, though - Fish became embroiled in a legal dispute with a former business partner, causing development to further drag on until it finally released in April 2012.

But Fez wasn't merely a good or even great game - it was a generational puzzle-platformer which remains an extremely important fixture in the indie gaming revolution of the early 2010s. 

It's just a damn shame that Fez 2 was cancelled over a Twitter beef of all things.