Oliver & Spike. Really liked how the dimension shifting looked in this game, but I have no idea what ever happened to it :(
There was also one game with a PS1'esk aesthetic where you controlled a robot in a post apocalyptic world that used to show up in my Twitter feed, but don't know what happened to that one either (or even if it ever got a name...)
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It's so sad to hear of games that never came to fruition and think of their development - some of them might've been scams all along, especially a bunch of the ones on Kickstarter, but I'm sure the majority were being made by a team of hardworking people with lofty aims (probably too lofty) doing their best to create something to be proud of or even the game they themselves always wanted - but now all that's left are abandoned sites, empty wikis, and Kickstarter pages full of people asking for a refund that they will probably never get. So much wasted work, passion and money.
Hopefully a few you mentioned still have a chance to see the light of day sometime in the future. Thanks for the trivia, it was interesting to discover those games and wonder how they could've been. The Mandate sounds like something that would've been right up my alley
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I just hate how the Kickstarter money vanished in the case of The mandate. The fans were the ones scammed.
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Welcome to my third train (seems it's been quite a few years since one and two).
The theme for this one is interesting games which were never released. I try to keep track of games which attract my attention in previews, and these are some which sadly never eventuated.
The train will run for 14 days and is protected by a quiz, with answers coming from the summaries below (the links are just for citations/further info if you're curious). To save you wasting time (but feel free to read nonetheless!), the train contains the following games:
Paradise Lost (excludes RU/BY)
Just Die Already
Immortal Redneck
Black the Fall
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Guns of Icarus Online
Snake Pass
Aaero
Paradigm
And now, the games...
The Mandate
Kickstarted with over $700,000 in 2013, The Mandate was to be a sci-fi RPG where you act as a ship captain, managing your crew, exploring space and resolving disputes between factions. It's the Star Trek sim I always wanted!
Unfortunately, the release date in Q1 2016 slipped by, and updates ceased in 2017. The company - and presumably Kickstarter money - are now long gone.
Northen Shadow
A first-person sandbox RPG with city-building, Northen Shadow was greenlit on Steam in 2014. The solo dev abandoned the project in 2016, indicating that it had changed far beyond the original vision.
Runemaster
This procedurally generated RPG based on Norse mythology was announced by Paradox in January 2014, only to be paused - apparently permanently - in December of that same year.
Divinity: Fallen Heroes
Probably the biggest name of the games here, this was meant to be a sequel to Original Sin 2, but more focused on tactical combat. It was originally to be released in late 2019, but was put on hold and does not seem to have progressed since.
Tex Murphy: The Poisoned Pawn
I came to the Tex Murphy series late, via Tesla Effect, but enjoyed it enough to be interested in the news that another game was on the way, with trailers released in 2017. Unfortunately, creative differences led to it falling through in 2021 - while it was ultimately released, it was as a novel rather than a game.
Odd Gods
An Australian-made low-fantasy CRPG with time travel, featuring an alignment system based on music genres (!), Odd Gods received attention back in 2017. Developmet dragged on for years before news on its official page finally dried up in mid-2021.
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