10 Cancelled Video Games We Wish We Could Have Played

What does Disney have against Star Wars and Aliens games?!

by Josh Brown
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The thing about cancelled video games (or pretty much any piece of media that never saw the light of day) is that they only really exist in the minds of the players who didn't get a chance to actually try them out, which means virtually nothing can compare to them.

They don't really exist, and as a result they're as good as the people once looking forward to them can picture in their heads, and nothing can ever shatter those preconceptions because the game will never be playable to prove them wrong. It's kind of like Schrodinger's Cat, only with, uh, video games.

With that said, the following examples on this list all at least showed some promise, and whether they would actually have turned out well or not (they were, after all, cancelled for a reason), their premises alone make us wish we could have tried them ourselves. Just to know.

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Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.