10 Awesome Multiplayer Video Games Nobody Played
2. Laser League
It's fair to say that an absolute glut of futuristic sports games have come down the pike over the last five years since the monolithic success of Rocket League, and while most of them barely made a dent, Laser League was an altogether different beast.
Hailed as an "instant modern-day multiplayer classic" by Eurogamer, Laser League was a Tron-inspired, neon-soaked sports game in which players attempted to switch on laser nodes in order to obliterate the other team and win the round.
It sounds simply enough, yet there was an enormous amount of strategy involved in ensuring you had the drop on your rivals while not opening yourself up to attacks, and using the right power-up for the right moment.
It is absolutely a game which unfurls its true complexity the longer you play it, yet with such a howlingly generic name, perhaps Laser League never really stood a chance in its over-saturated market.
Sadly it never reached more than a few hundred concurrent players on Steam, and even a stint on Xbox Game Pass couldn't boost its popularity much, largely due to the fatal lack of cross-play functionality.
Barely three months after its release, developer Roll7 transferred development to publisher 505 Games, and that's basically all she wrote.