10 Dream Video Game Projects The Industry (And You) Forgot About

Every month there are more awesome-looking games released than anyone with a full-time job can possibly keep track of, but what about those games that haven't been released yet?

It's always thrilling to see a dream video game get announced, with players basking in the warm glow of that pre-release buzz, possibly many years before said game is actually finally released.

But sometimes video game projects take long enough to come out that you might actually forget about them during the interim. 

While canny publishers will keep an upcoming game in their customers' periphery through regular status updates and new gameplay footage, countless titles have slipped out of the collective conscious entirely through a lack of sustained engagement.

And that's absolutely the case with these 10 games, the announcement of which proved hugely exciting for fans, and yet years after the fact, a combination of radio silence and increasing player apathy has led most to forget these games are actually in the works at all.

Granted, it's becoming increasingly clear that some of them will surely never see the light of day. As for the rest? It'll be a steep climb living up to fans' now-sky high expectations...

You might well remember 2012's Capcom-developed crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken, but do you also recall that it was being simultaneously developed with Tekken X Street Fighter, a sister crossover project produced instead by Tekken developers Bandai Namco?

The big hook of Tekken X Street Fighter was that it would feature a 3D gameplay engine compared to Street Fighter X Tekken's 2D style, and honestly, who wouldn't want to play that?

But as the years passed without word of the game's development, it was quietly put on hold - but not cancelled - in 2016.

Every year or two thereafter, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada would come out of the woodwork to provide an update on the game, once making remarks that suggested progress had stalled due to underwhelming sales of Street Fighter X Tekken.

In 2021, Harada reaffirmed that the game was "pending" rather than cancelled, and about 30% complete. 

All the same, it's safe to say that all but the most die-hard Tekken and Street Fighter fans forgot about this one a long time ago - and it seems like Bandai Namco are more keen to focus on developing financially safer Tekken sequels.