20 Upcoming Video Games Absolutely NOBODY Wants
Who exactly are these new video games for?
Modern video gaming is truly an embarrassment of riches for us players. There are more great games being released every single week than anyone can possibly keep up with.
As a result not every game, no matter how good, can be commercially successful, but then there are those games that make you wonder how they actually got the greenlight at all.
These 20 video games are seemingly being developed and released in spite of the fact that just about nobody was asking for them to be made.
And while it's fair to say that players sometimes don't know exactly what they want, they definitely don't want any of these games.
From more doomed live-service titles, gacha games, and AI-infused slop, to cash-grab remasters, and even sequels and spin-offs that feel like they're coming way too late, nobody asked for these games to happen.
Now in fairness, it's possible that some of these games do in fact defy the odds and become both critical and commercial successes, but if you're a betting person, you surely wouldn't bank on it being the case...
20. Fairgame$
Fairgame$ is a game that seemed absolutely cooked from the moment Sony announced it in May 2023, and almost three years later precious little has changed.
Fairgame$ is part of Sony's grand, mostly-failed push into the live-service gaming market - a AAA competitive heist game where players join forces to steal wares from the mega-wealthy.
The original cinematic reveal trailer did little to help the game stand out in a crowded field of live-service multiplayer games, and its corny title just felt like it was trying a little too hard to be down with the kids.
Almost three years on we still haven't seen a single second of gameplay footage, which in addition to reports about the game's troubled development has led some to suggest that Sony might've quietly cancelled it.
With Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond leaving the outfit last May and game director Daniel Drapeau exiting back in September, it seems like there's little internal enthusiasm for Fairgame$, let alone from players.
Even if Fairgame$ does release, the market is just so oversaturated with these generic-looking live-service games that it seems destined to go the way of Concord and evaporate into the ether in record time. Nobody cares.