10 Incredible Video Games You Can't Buy Anymore

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.