10 Popular Video Games Developers Abandoned

Jason Voorhees is one of the most well-known horror villains of the last few decades, with his deadpan hockey mask and ceaseless, methodical march befitting a Chaser from The Chase. Such a character is perfectly suited to a survival horror video game - when it's executed properly. Sadly, Friday the 13th: The Game proved to be IllFonic and Gun Media's very own horror story, with innumerable bugs, glitches and latency issues plaguing the game's release, albeit occasionally resulting in some amusing scenarios when players could taunt an immobile Jason.

Fast forward to 2020, and the game is still a buggy mess, despite the developer having patched the game what surely must be a world record number of times. Legal disputes put pay to the hopes of all planned DLC for the game, rendering it very much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get title with little to no room for expansion; IllFonic, meanwhile, seemingly jumped ship and left lead development to Black Tower Studios. What the latter can actually do beyond damage limitation remains to be seen; any signs of huge improvement are better hidden than the camp members Jason so relentlessly hunts.