10 Video Games Everyone Wanted (But Nobody Played)
8. Batman: The Telltale Series
In the mid-2010s, it truly seemed like Telltale Games was one of the most well-minted developers in the gaming industry.
Their flourishing episodic adventure game adaptations of The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Minecraft seemed to suggest that players couldn't get enough of that bite-sized, Choose Your Own Adventure-style.
And so when Telltale announced that they were working on a Batman series, excitement was immediately extremely high, that the studio could deliver a thrilling detective noir that melded the tone of the Christopher Nolan movies with the artistry of the comics.
2016's first season received mixed-to-positive reviews, though follow-up Batman: The Enemy Within was met with considerably stronger enthusiasm.
Yet the general belief that Telltale was one of the most commercially reliable entities in gaming was shattered in 2018, when the company suddenly announced its closure due to bankruptcy.
Reports subsequently emerged that the Batman games "tanked" and were some of Telltale's worst-performing titles, which given the potential success of a Batman-themed episodic adventure game on paper seemed absolutely ludicrous.
The cut of it, though, was that Telltale spread themselves too thin with the various licenses they acquired, in turn both flooding the market with games and diluting the quality of their product, apparently enough that players lost interest.