20 Great Video Games That Everybody Turned Against

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has been going strong(ish) since Tobe Hooper first unleashed Leatherface on us in 1974. Every half decade or so, a sequel, reboot or other franchise addition lumbers into view, and while the quality of the media is normally shoddy, we keep turning up. Thus, when video game The Texas Chainsaw Massacre dropped three years ago, players were all over it like hillbillies on a crate of moonshine.

An online survival horror (because, what else?), the game is set before the events of the first film, but in the same continuity, and uses an asymmetrical gaming format to pit evil Sawyer family members against a new group of young victims. This format has become extremely popular over the last decade, as all the old horror franchises – Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, and soon Halloween – have been given their chance to do what they do best. And it makes sense – up until this lightbulb moment, developers didn’t really know how to adapt classic horror IPs, with games often turning out iffy at best.

But while Texas Chainsaw was well received, including courting 1 million players on its first day of release, just two years on (last year) it was announced support and developments would be ending. Rather than hand over support to another company, developer Sumo decided to nuke it, transitioning the game to a P2P model and washing their hands of it.