20 Recent Video Games That Were Sent Out To Die

The success of Overwatch quickly led the gaming market to get flooded with a bevy of middling hero shooters, the majority of which died a quick death.

And though the NetEase-published free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter FragPunk launched to a promising 113,000 concurrent players on Steam last March, reviewers and players alike criticised the game's balancing and especially its implementation of microtransactions.

With nine separate in-game currencies, it basically felt like a parody of an overly monetised live-service game, and that likely did the game no favours at all as it tried to retain a player-base.

Within barely a month of launch FragPunk had shed more than 90% of its players, and for the last four months it's basically remained flatlined at barely 2,000 concurrents.

FragPunk was yet another game desperately trying to cash-in on a trend long after said trend had peaked, while failing to do enough to stand out from its competition.