8 Secret Video Games We Can Prove Are In Development

2. Legacy Of Kain: Dead Sun

The story behind a new Legacy of Kain making it to shelves is about as unpredictable as that of Raziel and the vampire lord himself, but back in January, an illuminating video from critic, Jim Sterling, divulged a number of pieces of information from someone working closely with Square Enix.

They revealed that the studio - like many triple-A producers at the turn of the generation - were simply blindsided by the popularity of consoles. Until the PS4 took off and sold gangbusters all over again, the word from the inside was that consoles were dead, and PC online multiplayer shooters were the 'future'.

Hence, we got the godawfully misguided and forced Nosgoth, an arena shooter with the LoK branding caked overtop. The story goes that a number of other games were in development at the time, including LoK: Dead Sun, which actually got a lengthy gameplay reveal in February 2016, showing what the team had been working on.

This followed Crystal Dynamics' Michael Brinker stating to Finder that the game had "a 50/50 chance" of success. "We have in-house developers who really want to make that game [...] it really is 50/50", he continued.

Back to Sterling, and apparently Just Cause 3 was another game planned to be an online multiplayer shooter, only for the sales of The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 to show that, actually, people don't just want brainless blasters.

Point being, following this, Just Cause was released with a story, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided the same (albeit with the terrible free-to-play Breach Mode intact), leading to the assumption that as Legacy of Kain is one of Crystal Dynamics' "iconic IPs", and Square aren't forcing all their IPs into multiplayer moulds, it has to be coming eventually.