10 Awesome Multiplayer Video Games Nobody Played

Oh, LawBreakers. Easily one of the most surprising failures on this list, Cliff Bleszinski's frenetic FPS had a lot going for it on paper: an arena shooter with a neat, gravity-defying gimmick and a unique enough aesthetic in a crowded genre.

And yet despite being relatively well received by critics and players alike for its fast-paced gameplay, interest in the game quickly dwindled post-release, leading to LawBreakers becoming free-to-play barely 10 months after release, and being shut down entirely another three months later.

Though Bleszinski's made the rather bone-headed assertion that the game failed because he was too "political," its fast petering-out can be better attributed to the market becoming oversaturated with me-too Overwatch clones, its more serious-minded tone, the fact it probably should've been free-to-play from the beginning, and it releasing just as the Battle Royale boom - headed up by PUBG - was kicking off.

It's an unfortunate collision of bad timing and business miscalculations, because on the pure merits of its actual quality LawBreakers had everything it needed to carve out a firm niche for itself in the multiplayer FPS arena.