10 Video Games That Made Their Creators Leave The Industry
7. Bear Simulator
Back in 2014, developer John Farjay received $100,000 in Kickstarter funding from 4,000 backers for his game Bear Simulator, which was eventually released in February 2016.
Barely a week after it hit Steam to mostly positive reviews, though, Farjay took to Kickstarter to insist that the game "didn’t have a great reception," and any further updates were basically "a lost cause."
He added that he didn't want to "deal with the drama anymore," which many fans interpreted as referring to a video posted by popular gaming personality PewDiePie, who openly savaged the game and received almost 5 million views for his trouble.
Though PewDiePie later offered up a half-hearted acceptance that his scathing review may have been a tad harsh, Farjay released just a few updates and then walked away, having not worked on another game in the four-plus years since Bear Simulator's release.