10 Video Games Probably Made Out Of Spite
5. Radical Heights
Hero shooter LawBreakers was released in 2017, with developer Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski hoping that his irreverent take on the genre would be worth a retail purchase, rather than being a free-to-play release as originally planned.
Despite solid acclaim, LawBreakers failed to find an active community, in part due to it never being released on Xbox One, resulting in the game's servers being deactivated barely a year after launch.
But several months before LawBreakers was officially shuttered, Bleszinski evidently realised the writing was on the wall, and attempted to cash-in on another hot trend at the time - the Battle Royale genre.
In April 2018, while LawBreakers was still letting out its prolonged death rattle, CliffyB announced Radical Heights, a PUBG-esque Battle Royale game, which was released in Early Access shortly thereafter.
The announcement and the game itself were both met with considerable derision by players and the press, noting its blatantly thrown-together state, and the perception that CliffyB was hastily chasing a flashy trend rather than actually making a game out of artistic inspiration.
A month after the game entered Early Access, Boss Key Productions was shut down due to the commercial failures of both LawBreakers and Radical Heights. Yikes.