10 Video Games So Bad They Were Delisted

First-person battle royale game The Culling was launched in early access in March 2016, and though it initially fared well with players, its popularity eventually cratered as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale rose to prominence.

By December 2017, developers Xaviant Games halted development on the game and began working on a sequel, which was released in July 2018.

Ultimately few critics even bothered to review the game, though IGN famously gave it a brutal 2/10 score, lambasting its terrible gunplay and blatant attempts to cash-in on the success of PUBG and H1Z1, as well as its dead community even on launch.

User reviews were somehow even worse, with the average score currently sitting at an almost impossibly low 1.1/10.

Astoundingly, Xaviant made the decision to pull the plug, delist the game, close all servers, and refund all players just eight days after The Culling 2 was released.

The same day it was delisted, Xaviant's director of operations, Josh Van Veld, issued a statement where he said "The Culling 2 was not a game that you asked for, and it's not the game you expect as the worthy successor to The Culling."

Xaviant then refocused their efforts on supporting the original game, though due to dwindling revenues it too was delisted and shuttered in March 2019.

It exists today only as The Culling: Origins, a revamped iteration that limits players to 10 free games per day, after which they need to pay to continue playing. Unsurprisingly, it didn't go down well with players.