10 Failed Live Service Video Games With Shockingly Short Lifespans

2. Babylon’s Fall (2022-2023)

One of the newer live service flubs on this list, you’d expect the superstar devs behind Bayonetta and Nier wouldn’t have any trouble creating a live service world that people want to stay engaged with, but Babylon’s Fall was just riddled with problems from the get go.

Panned across the board, PlatinumGames’ action RPG was all set to give you an exciting game world to play in, cooperative questing, and vibrant hub locations.

Instead, the challenges in the game were largely boring and repetitive with a predictable and uninspiring difficulty gradient and very few reasons for players to re-engage. Players took issue with the subpar visuals and lack of content, and really all Babylon’s Fall achieved was a crash course in what not to do when trying to make a live service game in 2022. Despite its impressive pedigree, just six months after its release publisher Square Enix announced the game would no longer be supported.

It’ll be done and dusted by February of 2023 but given exactly one person was playing it in May of last year, that kind of makes sense.