10 Cancelled Video Games You Wish You Could Play

Obsidian Entertainment is one of the leading developers in the RPG genre with games such as Fallout: New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic II. In 2006, the hit-makers set their sights on the Alien franchise with the game Aliens: Crucible during their partnership with publisher, Sega.

Crucible was set on the planet Caldera where you had to survive a Xenomorph invasion. The game was described as the horror genre's answer to Mass Effect and included squad-based mechanics with dialogue options affecting their loyalty to the player.

A unique feature was the concept of permanent death which would occur when characters were 'face-hugged' by Aliens. Once implanted by the embryo, the choice would be given whether to kill them out of mercy, freeze them in cryo tubes, or let the chestburster escape from their bodies.

Regardless, impregnation would mean death and whittle down the game's cast.

Aliens: Crucible was canned in 2009 despite being nearly finished. The title was cancelled in favor of Creative Assembly's pitch to Sega which eventually became 2014's Alien: Isolation. Though the latter is beloved by fans, the prospect of an RPG set in the Alien universe is untapped potential that surely would have done well thanks to Obsidian's impressive credentials.