10 Popular Video Games You Can't Play Anymore

7. Nosgoth

A cult favourite in no small part due to its reveal as the first entry in the iconic Legacy of Kain series in just about ten years, Nosgoth borrowed the Legacy of Kain universe and used it as a foundation for a free-to-play multiplayer game that pitted humans against vampires.

While the vamps would use brute strength and melee finesse, the human fighters were armed with ranged weaponry and projectiles.

Featuring two modes; a spin on Domination, and Deathmatch, players would battle it out against each other and the clock. If we’re being super technical about it, this game didn’t actually come out. Given it was being created by Square Enix and Psyonix you’d expect an absolute slam dunk, but things got rocky quickly. The closed alpha kicked off in 2013 and its open beta began in early 2015 but just over a year later in 2016, Square Enix shut it down for good claiming the audience they expected wasn’t there. Its fanbase was understandably devastated and reportedly gathered in the game’s main city on the day of the server shut down.

That’s equally heartening and sad but if there’s anything we’ve learned about the internet it’s that when gamers want something they often find a way to get it.

In 2022 fans of the game posted online with instructions helping people modify the game files in order to let them play on private servers. The game currently has an active formerly private and now public Discord so that people who still want to play matches even this long after the games official cancellation can continue to do so.