In 2025, 17 games have been confirmed or reliably reported to be canceled so far. Each of these games is listed below :
>1.**Transformers: Reactivate**, an online action game in development at the **Tencent-owned studio Splash Damage (Gears Tactics)**.
>2. Two unannounced PlayStation games cancelled by Sony: a **live-service project in development at Bend Studio (Days Gone)** and a **live-service God of War game in development at Bluepoint Games (Demon’s Souls remake).**
>3. Extremely OK Games announced that it had canceled **Earthblade, a 2D platformer meant to be a follow-up to its celebrated platformer, Celeste.**
>4. **Football Manager 25** was canceled by developer Sports Interactive. It’s the **first time the annual sports sim has skipped a release in its 21-year history.**
>5. **Wonder Woman** game was canceled and the developers, **Monolith Productions, were shut down** by parent company/publisher Warner Bros. Wonder Woman would have been the studio’s follow-up to its acclaimed Middle-earth series, and **was expected to utilize its patented Nemesis system.**
>7. EA cancelled unannounced **new Titanfall game.**
>8. Square Enix canceled **Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link**, a planned mobile game was set to be an action-RPG that told a brand-new Kingdom Hearts story and would utilize Pokemon GO-like GPS mechanics.
>9. An **action-focused real-time strategy game called Battle Aces** was canceled. It was in development for PC and **set to be developer Uncapped Games’ debut release**.
>10. EA’s single-player, open-world **Black Panther** game cancelled **alongside the closure of Cliffhanger Games**, which was developing Black Panther as its first project.
>11. **Hytale**, a Minecraft-inspired sandbox game, was canceled **alongside the closure of the developer Hypixel Studios.**
>12. Xbox canceled its **Perfect Dark reboot** and **shuttered its developer, The Initiative**. Perfect Dark was also being **co-developed by Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics.**
>13. XBox also cancelled **Rare’s Everwild** alongside Perfect Dark.
>14. Xbox cancelled an **unannounced MMO codenamed Blackbird,** the game was said to be a new, sci-fi IP **from ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online).**
>15. **Dying Light studio Techland** has canceled **two in-development games.**
Edit : corrected typos and formatting errors.
OkJacket8933
Is Half-Life 3 still good to go?
Larkson9999
Dang, they even canceled the ones that already came out? That’s harsh.
Used-Can-6979
That Nemesis system continues to go by unused. What a completely wasted and pointless exclusive purchase.
fantome11
Majority of them I’m happy about, so that’s good. Hopefully we can go back from live service bullshit.
lycheedorito
And we’re only halfway through!
Unikraken
*That we know about…*
Seraphix
Perfect Dark getting canceled truly fucking sucks. Perfect Dark N64 is my favorite game ever and I was really looking forward to revisiting that world again. Hope Microsoft does the humane thing and finds a way to sell the assets to another studio to keep development alive.
Implosion-X13
It’s crazy I would be more hyped for half of these than anything coming out this year.
jenkinsmi
Now this, is an exceptionally exciting article
Zangetsukaiba
It’s not the cancelled games that irk me. It’s the announcement/reveal of a game (especially with footage) that is not coming out in more than 2 years that actually makes me completely uninterested in them. And then this happens. Well….what was even the point??? Lol
AleroRatking
Everblade is the one that really breaks my heart. Celeste was a work of art.
G0ttaB3KiddingM3
New titanfall is the biggest casualty imo
prodij18
Two things I got out of this.
1. The Western game industry is really hurting. (Big news.)
2. A ‘cinematic trailer’ might as well be a tweet that they’re working on or want to work on the game and means almost nothing in regards to if this game does or will at any time exist.
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In 2025, 17 games have been confirmed or reliably reported to be canceled so far. Each of these games is listed below :
>1.**Transformers: Reactivate**, an online action game in development at the **Tencent-owned studio Splash Damage (Gears Tactics)**.
>2. Two unannounced PlayStation games cancelled by Sony: a **live-service project in development at Bend Studio (Days Gone)** and a **live-service God of War game in development at Bluepoint Games (Demon’s Souls remake).**
>3. Extremely OK Games announced that it had canceled **Earthblade, a 2D platformer meant to be a follow-up to its celebrated platformer, Celeste.**
>4. **Football Manager 25** was canceled by developer Sports Interactive. It’s the **first time the annual sports sim has skipped a release in its 21-year history.**
>5. **Wonder Woman** game was canceled and the developers, **Monolith Productions, were shut down** by parent company/publisher Warner Bros. Wonder Woman would have been the studio’s follow-up to its acclaimed Middle-earth series, and **was expected to utilize its patented Nemesis system.**
>6. An **unannounced, multiplayer first-person shooter from** Apex Legends developer **Respawn Entertainment.**
>7. EA cancelled unannounced **new Titanfall game.**
>8. Square Enix canceled **Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link**, a planned mobile game was set to be an action-RPG that told a brand-new Kingdom Hearts story and would utilize Pokemon GO-like GPS mechanics.
>9. An **action-focused real-time strategy game called Battle Aces** was canceled. It was in development for PC and **set to be developer Uncapped Games’ debut release**.
>10. EA’s single-player, open-world **Black Panther** game cancelled **alongside the closure of Cliffhanger Games**, which was developing Black Panther as its first project.
>11. **Hytale**, a Minecraft-inspired sandbox game, was canceled **alongside the closure of the developer Hypixel Studios.**
>12. Xbox canceled its **Perfect Dark reboot** and **shuttered its developer, The Initiative**. Perfect Dark was also being **co-developed by Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics.**
>13. XBox also cancelled **Rare’s Everwild** alongside Perfect Dark.
>14. Xbox cancelled an **unannounced MMO codenamed Blackbird,** the game was said to be a new, sci-fi IP **from ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online).**
>15. **Dying Light studio Techland** has canceled **two in-development games.**
Edit : corrected typos and formatting errors.
Is Half-Life 3 still good to go?
Dang, they even canceled the ones that already came out? That’s harsh.
That Nemesis system continues to go by unused. What a completely wasted and pointless exclusive purchase.
Majority of them I’m happy about, so that’s good. Hopefully we can go back from live service bullshit.
And we’re only halfway through!
*That we know about…*
Perfect Dark getting canceled truly fucking sucks. Perfect Dark N64 is my favorite game ever and I was really looking forward to revisiting that world again. Hope Microsoft does the humane thing and finds a way to sell the assets to another studio to keep development alive.
It’s crazy I would be more hyped for half of these than anything coming out this year.
Now this, is an exceptionally exciting article
It’s not the cancelled games that irk me. It’s the announcement/reveal of a game (especially with footage) that is not coming out in more than 2 years that actually makes me completely uninterested in them. And then this happens. Well….what was even the point??? Lol
Everblade is the one that really breaks my heart. Celeste was a work of art.
New titanfall is the biggest casualty imo
Two things I got out of this.
1. The Western game industry is really hurting. (Big news.)
2. A ‘cinematic trailer’ might as well be a tweet that they’re working on or want to work on the game and means almost nothing in regards to if this game does or will at any time exist.