10 Failed Live Service Video Games With Shockingly Short Lifespans

1. Radical Heights (2018)

Radical Heights
Boss Key Productions

We kicked off our list with LawBreakers so it stands to reason we’d wrap it up with the only other game Boss Key Productions made before they were dissolved and that’s Radical Heights. The battle royale game quickly fell under the wheel of PUBG and Fortnite, along with most of the other aspiring battle royale games at the time.

After only five months of development it rocked up in what the developer called “X-Treme Early Access”, which should have been our first sign to worry.

The idea was to let the community help shape the game while in its early access state but instead players found the game to be unpolished, underwhelming, and uninspiring. Just over a month after its release in April of 2018 the studio folded and the game was subsequently abandoned.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.