10 Cancelled Video Games We Wish We Could Have Played

1. The Stormlands

Obsidian are no stranger to cancellations, but Stormlands was the biggest game the studio never got to make. Concocted as an exclusive release for the Xbox One, the team partnered with Microsoft to realise the potential of cloud technology, which the publisher had high hopes for at the dawn of the 2010s. Apparently the head honchos wanted to deliver something called the "million-man raid", which essentially would have worked as follows:

"Imagine you're playing The Witcher, maybe with a friend. What happens if at points in time a giant creature pops up that you can see in the distance and it's not just popping up while you're playing, it's popping up for everybody who's playing. You all rush this creature... and as you're all rushing through the haze the game is matchmaking you into 40-man raids who are going to fight the creature."

"Then you fight it, but while the creature is being fought all the footage is being recorded up into the cloud. Then at the end we would come up with some kind of intelligent editing thing which would deliver everybody who fought a personalised, edited video of their participation in the raid. That is what was proposed to us."

There's a great writeup on Eurogamer about the whole development, but essentially the scale of the project simply became utterly unfeasible, and the title was canned. Who knows though, maybe now that Obsidian is fully owned by Microsoft, this mad idea might eventually see the light of day on the Xbox Series X...