10 Upcoming Video Games You Didn't Realise Just Got Cancelled
1. Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park started out as a project on /r/Worldbuilding - a fictional tourist attraction that's basically exactly what it says on the tin.
The Lovecraftian, fleshy pit was created and illustrated by Trevor Roberts, and over a period of several years built up quite the following on social media, enough that Roberts announced last November that Mystery Flesh Pit National Park was being adapted into a video game.
The Kickstarted-funded title would be a survival horror game for PC, but a mere week later, before fans had much time to get excited, Roberts revealed that it had been cancelled and all backers would be refunded.
According to Roberts, the cancellation came about due to "fan feedback, a fumbled marketing push, internal disputes, and some deep introspection," calling the Kickstarter "overly-ambitious" and a game "wholly beyond [his] scope as an individual artist."
Roberts later added that there wouldn't be any official Mystery Flesh Pit National Park games produced while he was alive, seeming to cement his dissatisfaction with the whole process.
Roberts' openness is admirable, at least, in being honest about his own creative limitations and uncertainty surrounding the project, rather than just taking people's money and putting out a poor end product.