20 Disastrous Gaming Launches Everyone Saw Coming
8. Babylon's Fall
Developer PlatinumGames has built their name on delivering eccentric, unique, ludicrously entertaining character action games like Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and Nier: Automata, so many were surprised when they announced a co-op multiplayer action-RPG, Babylon's Fall.
It seemed incredibly far outside the devs' wheelhouse, and while some were intrigued by the ambitious scope of the project, many more never had a sliver of faith in it.
It didn't help that Babylon's Fall resembled a Bland Fantasy Game from the moment it was revealed, with yawn-inducingly familiar aesthetics and gameplay suggesting it was a desperate ploy by PlatinumGames to quickly cash-in on the live service boom.
Well, players saw right through it, because barely anyone actually bothered turning up to the game's predictably calamitous launch.
In addition to critics calling out its boring, sauceless gameplay and art direction, the concurrent Steam player count peaked at less than 1,200 players.
In under two months that figure cratered to below 100 players, and within six months PlatinumGames shut the servers down, effectively killing the online-only title.