10 Hyped Video Games In Development (That Will Never Be Released)

Routine looked to be an interesting survival horror title based on the isolated life of the inhabitant of a pseudo-cyberpunk Cold War era lunar space station. Originally announced in 2012 with a calculatingly creepy trailer, developer Lunar Software promised a that the full experience would see release at some point in 2013.

Yet, 2013 came and went, and Routine was still seemingly stagnant until the development team clarified in a 2014 blog post that, though they had made some major headway, the game was still far from complete.

Fans of the still-unreleased game were made to suffer through nearly two years of silence on the behalf of the developers as questions arose as to whether the game would ever be released at all. Though the developers made brief, interstitial remarks on their website, little was set in stone.

Then, in March of 2017, the Lunar Software revealed that they had intended to launch the game during the 2016 holiday season, though they pulled back for fear of end-of-year holiday sales overshadowing their title's release. Nearly a year and a half has passed since then with nary a word from the team behind Routine, and the future of the once-promising survival horror thriller now looks bleak.