10 Recent Video Games That Have Already Been Forgotten
These games came and went in the blink of an eye.
Though the modern gaming sphere is basically an embarrassment of riches for players, it's also fair to say that with almost 20,000 games releasing on Steam alone in 2024, it's never been tougher for games to compete for our attention.
And so, it's incredibly easy for even well-received games to slip through the cracks, especially if their publisher lacks the resources for a splashy, attention-grabbing marketing campaign.
And for whatever reason, these 10 recent video games have all been forgotten within months or even weeks of their release.
Now to reiterate, a forgotten game often isn't the same thing as a terrible or even bad one - hell, some of the games on this list are genuinely great.
But each nevertheless came out, failed to make a major dent with players, and was quickly forgotten about.
Sure, a few of these games are bad, but others were rock solid and a few even terrific, but they just didn't make a splash with the gaming masses.
We can only hope that the better games on this list might get a second look from players by year's end if they get some much-deserved awards recognition...
10. FBC: Firebreak
FBC: Firebreak is yet another entry into the wildly overcrowded live service multiplayer shooter genre, though did at least have the halfway compelling hook of existing within the Control universe and being the first multiplayer game from Remedy Entertainment.
Yet it launched back in June with a rather muted marketing campaign that simply failed to distinguish it from other games in the multiplayer shooter space.
And so, it wasn't remotely surprising that FBC: Firebreak dipped below 100 concurrent players on Steam within three weeks of launch.
While we can't ignore that the game also released as part of Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, allowing it to rack up over 1 million players within barely a week of release, the data suggests that just about everyone who tried the game ditched it in a short period of time.
It didn't help of course that reviews were wildly mixed, with many criticising the "boring" onboarding process, which didn't exactly entice players to keep going - especially those playing for "free" on the aforementioned subscription services.
As of early August FBC: Firebreak is down to just a few-dozen concurrents on Steam, making it clear that all but the die-hards tried it and then swiftly moved on.