10 Incredible Video Games You Can't Buy Anymore
8. The Culling/The Culling 2 - PC
I'm sure there will be many to contest the validity of The Culling on this list, and if you were to look solely at The Culling 2 as your frame of reference, I'd probably agree. Yet the original game was a truly valiant effort as a platform to build upon within the battle royale subgenre - one which had an ardently loyal fanbase.
Adding things like trapping, crafting, and other fairly nuanced mechanics into the usual scavenge-and-kill loop, The Culling was considered to be a flawed yet more strategic game, with one fan saying "it's the only game that can make me [feel like I'm] Arnie at the end of Predator", presumably due to the ability to win with rudimentary traps and tricks, even against a more heavily-armed opponent.
Yet... it disappeared without warning, assumedly due to a dwindling player count and lack of interest. It wasn't until mere months later that The Culling 2 appeared, completely unrecognisable from the original title, with a monetisation model so aggressive that it forced players to pay to play every single match they wanted to participate in.
Sporting a far more generic and clean-cut design (which seemed to do away with a lot of the unique selling points of the original), it was only around one week before The Culling 2 was... permanently culled.