ah they look so good though welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 failed
Kickstarter games no one knows what it
really is some say it contains the
secrets of the universe
for this list we’ll be looking at what
we consider to be the biggest fails
regarding Kickstarter backed videogames
to be considered these games must have
been massive disappointments upon
release delayed countless times leaving
backers furious were purchased never
came out at all and now we have the
incredible opportunity to create an RPG
tactics game for this generation unsung
story tale of the Guardians
number 10 or at tactics aura tactics was
created by Douglas Miller and promised
to be a tactical RPG with class swapping
and asynchronous multiplayer after
initially asking for $5,000 over 800
backers pledged nearly double back
totaling it just over 11,500 after an
update in January of 2013 promised
continued work the team went radio
silent and many backers were left with
numerous questions that is until Doug
left a comment explaining that his team
had been laid off from their jobs and
were too busy looking for new work he
stressed that the game was not cancelled
but even now four years later it’s still
m.i.a
leaving backers completely in the dark
[Music]
number nine rival threads last class
heroes
[Music]
last class heroes looked to be a
promising game it was advertised as an
action RPG featuring stunning 2d visuals
and to their credit the visuals did look
pretty damn good over 680 backers raised
nearly $25,000 for the project but in
April of 2014 an update was released
declaring that the game was temporarily
put on hold due to complications and by
temporarily put on hold we think they
mean dead because there’s been nothing
since when reached for comment by Kotaku
developer leonardo mol art declared that
the project became too ambitious for its
own good but that it was still coming
well backers are still waiting thanks so
much for watching
we can’t wait for you
[Music]
the Breit unwritten that which happened
[Music]
that which happened apparently does not
include release the development team
here asked for an astounding $75,000 for
the creation of this randomly generated
world about a tribe traveling to meet
its God and surprisingly this goal was
met with over 2,000 backers raising
seventy eight thousand dollars however
one of its developers ran into
significant family issues and the
project was put on hold as his time and
energy more put into his family Wow this
is definitely definitely understandable
backers are still disappointed the
project is supposedly still in slow
development so why should you back in
written you’re gonna get quite a bit
you’re gonna get a rich exotic story
number seven moon rift
[Music]
look if you cancel a game whatever we’ll
get over it but at least please tell us
that you’re canceling the game this
retro-looking randomly generated
platform shooter was created by Sam
hunter and 500 backers helped raise just
over 8 thousand dollars for it which was
$2,000 over it’s asking goal which is
honestly too bad because the last update
occurred in October of 2013 in that time
an entirely new generation of consoles
and games have been released there have
been no new updates regarding the
development of the game and the Creator
has all but disappeared off the face of
the earth this came to really be what
everybody wants I want people to be
excited for this number 6 unsung story
we’ve want to bring it out to other
platforms we want to make sure that the
players can play the game when they want
to play it how they want to play unsung
story was set to be the spiritual
successor to Final Fantasy Tactics with
Yasumi Matsuno at the helm and a massive
Kickstarter goal of $600,000 the game
was originally announced alongside a
digital card game but when that was
never mentioned again fans began to grow
suspicious in September of 2015 after
numerous delays it was announced that
the game would now be an online PvP game
going completely against the
single-player experience originally
promised to the backers but ultimately
in August 2017 play deck announced that
it had abandoned unsung story and they
took the money with them little orbit is
taking the ranks unluckily they
technically need to start from scratch
yeah we don’t think we’re ever really
gonna see this one proved us wrong you
know wonderful enriching experience in
this
RBG times
number five shadow of the Eternals
please
mistresses for the regular staff to you
my dear I am Aires Abed you and I need
to talk
shadow of the Eternals was poised to be
a spiritual successor to the Gamecube
cult favourite eternal darkness adding
to the hype it was being helped by its
original director Dennis diak the thing
is Dayak had been previously embroiled
in a scandal involving the mismanagement
of x-men destiny which long story short
ultimately led to his previous company
Silicon Knights filing for bankruptcy
so backers were understandably hesitant
knowing that he knew it would ruin
Silicon Knights he also had a firm
understanding or at least an idea that
would also ruin my reputation and to a
certain extent I think he was absolutely
correct in that regard the first
campaign raised quote only two hundred
and eighty four thousand dollars which
was actually falling well short of its
1.5 million dollar target after
relaunching with a much more modest goal
of seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars the campaign again fell on its
face when it raised only half of that
amount just goes to show that when it
comes to Kickstarter you better have a
good reputation what did you see I saw a
boy and fire
a world falling apart number four
goddess what is goddess imagine a world
full of people that you have nurtured
get old peter molyneux well at least
he’s always good for some drama goddess
launched on Kickstarter in 2012 complete
with promises of a quote living world
and a significant multiplayer component
the project amassed a large amount of
attention and it went on to accumulate
over seven hundred thousand dollars
unfortunately for the backers goddess
was an enormous disappointment upon
release as the gameplay was
fundamentally different and the focus
seemed to have been put on its mobile
release which in and of itself was full
of cliche mobile game tropes and
microtransactions
in the end it was a huge mess and full
of broken promises I just wanted to live
a the glory of the old days in new
format of today’s world and with your
help we can do that number three clang
red goes back into iron gate the attacks
start changes to remind red that there
are only two possible angles of attack
he can use from that position
clang had an enormous amount of promise
too bad it amounted to an enormous
amount of regret science fiction writer
Neal Stephenson took to Kickstarter to
back a new project a video game centered
around realistic sword fighting the
project had over 9,000 backers behind it
who pledged a total of five hundred and
twenty six thousand dollars however
after some initial disappointment
regarding its delays Stephenson
announced its cancellation in September
2014 claiming insufficient funds and
significant personal financial loss many
people were understandably left upset
and without refunds and many pledged can
never back another Kickstarter project
again got a lot of people out there who
like to play games with sword fighting
him and who might be ready to step it up
to something a little bit more
interesting number two yaagh ventures
young ventures was set to be an
open-world game with the likenesses of
popular youtube channel yogscast lewis
and simon a gaming channel devoted to
minecraft world of warcraft and grand
theft auto among other things do they’re
very dedicated fanbase a ridiculous five
hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars
was raised for developmen
of their video game a video game which
surprise surprise never came to fruition
the project was abruptly canceled in
July of 2014 and the backers were given
access to a different game called tug
instead of a refund I’m sure they were
happy with that instead of just boxes
these boxes turn into like these nice
rolling hills and beautiful landscape
system number one the stomping land you
are a hunter and your primary source of
food is dinosaur meat of all the titles
on this list the stomping land had
perhaps the most ambition and promise
the game was set to be a multiplayer
oriented survival game set in a world
where humans and dinosaurs coexist it
was a relatively original concept and
many people seem to be on board as over
4000 backers raised 114 thousand dollars
in order to bring it to life after being
released through Steam early access in
2014
creator Alex Fedora was abducted by
aliens or something because all
communication with him abruptly ended
the game’s 3d character artist was also
forced to quit after his messages to
fund aura
went unanswered there are a ton of
things that you can do on silence you do
whatever you have to to advance your
gear and survive for as long as possible
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 failed
Kickstarter games no one knows what it
really is some say it contains the
secrets of the universe
for this list we’ll be looking at what
we consider to be the biggest fails
regarding Kickstarter backed videogames
to be considered these games must have
been massive disappointments upon
release delayed countless times leaving
backers furious were purchased never
came out at all and now we have the
incredible opportunity to create an RPG
tactics game for this generation unsung
story tale of the Guardians
number 10 or at tactics aura tactics was
created by Douglas Miller and promised
to be a tactical RPG with class swapping
and asynchronous multiplayer after
initially asking for $5,000 over 800
backers pledged nearly double back
totaling it just over 11,500 after an
update in January of 2013 promised
continued work the team went radio
silent and many backers were left with
numerous questions that is until Doug
left a comment explaining that his team
had been laid off from their jobs and
were too busy looking for new work he
stressed that the game was not cancelled
but even now four years later it’s still
m.i.a
leaving backers completely in the dark
[Music]
number nine rival threads last class
heroes
[Music]
last class heroes looked to be a
promising game it was advertised as an
action RPG featuring stunning 2d visuals
and to their credit the visuals did look
pretty damn good over 680 backers raised
nearly $25,000 for the project but in
April of 2014 an update was released
declaring that the game was temporarily
put on hold due to complications and by
temporarily put on hold we think they
mean dead because there’s been nothing
since when reached for comment by Kotaku
developer leonardo mol art declared that
the project became too ambitious for its
own good but that it was still coming
well backers are still waiting thanks so
much for watching
we can’t wait for you
[Music]
the Breit unwritten that which happened
[Music]
that which happened apparently does not
include release the development team
here asked for an astounding $75,000 for
the creation of this randomly generated
world about a tribe traveling to meet
its God and surprisingly this goal was
met with over 2,000 backers raising
seventy eight thousand dollars however
one of its developers ran into
significant family issues and the
project was put on hold as his time and
energy more put into his family Wow this
is definitely definitely understandable
backers are still disappointed the
project is supposedly still in slow
development so why should you back in
written you’re gonna get quite a bit
you’re gonna get a rich exotic story
number seven moon rift
[Music]
look if you cancel a game whatever we’ll
get over it but at least please tell us
that you’re canceling the game this
retro-looking randomly generated
platform shooter was created by Sam
hunter and 500 backers helped raise just
over 8 thousand dollars for it which was
$2,000 over it’s asking goal which is
honestly too bad because the last update
occurred in October of 2013 in that time
an entirely new generation of consoles
and games have been released there have
been no new updates regarding the
development of the game and the Creator
has all but disappeared off the face of
the earth this came to really be what
everybody wants I want people to be
excited for this number 6 unsung story
we’ve want to bring it out to other
platforms we want to make sure that the
players can play the game when they want
to play it how they want to play unsung
story was set to be the spiritual
successor to Final Fantasy Tactics with
Yasumi Matsuno at the helm and a massive
Kickstarter goal of $600,000 the game
was originally announced alongside a
digital card game but when that was
never mentioned again fans began to grow
suspicious in September of 2015 after
numerous delays it was announced that
the game would now be an online PvP game
going completely against the
single-player experience originally
promised to the backers but ultimately
in August 2017 play deck announced that
it had abandoned unsung story and they
took the money with them little orbit is
taking the ranks unluckily they
technically need to start from scratch
yeah we don’t think we’re ever really
gonna see this one proved us wrong you
know wonderful enriching experience in
this
RBG times
number five shadow of the Eternals
please
mistresses for the regular staff to you
my dear I am Aires Abed you and I need
to talk
shadow of the Eternals was poised to be
a spiritual successor to the Gamecube
cult favourite eternal darkness adding
to the hype it was being helped by its
original director Dennis diak the thing
is Dayak had been previously embroiled
in a scandal involving the mismanagement
of x-men destiny which long story short
ultimately led to his previous company
Silicon Knights filing for bankruptcy
so backers were understandably hesitant
knowing that he knew it would ruin
Silicon Knights he also had a firm
understanding or at least an idea that
would also ruin my reputation and to a
certain extent I think he was absolutely
correct in that regard the first
campaign raised quote only two hundred
and eighty four thousand dollars which
was actually falling well short of its
1.5 million dollar target after
relaunching with a much more modest goal
of seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars the campaign again fell on its
face when it raised only half of that
amount just goes to show that when it
comes to Kickstarter you better have a
good reputation what did you see I saw a
boy and fire
a world falling apart number four
goddess what is goddess imagine a world
full of people that you have nurtured
get old peter molyneux well at least
he’s always good for some drama goddess
launched on Kickstarter in 2012 complete
with promises of a quote living world
and a significant multiplayer component
the project amassed a large amount of
attention and it went on to accumulate
over seven hundred thousand dollars
unfortunately for the backers goddess
was an enormous disappointment upon
release as the gameplay was
fundamentally different and the focus
seemed to have been put on its mobile
release which in and of itself was full
of cliche mobile game tropes and
microtransactions
in the end it was a huge mess and full
of broken promises I just wanted to live
a the glory of the old days in new
format of today’s world and with your
help we can do that number three clang
red goes back into iron gate the attacks
start changes to remind red that there
are only two possible angles of attack
he can use from that position
clang had an enormous amount of promise
too bad it amounted to an enormous
amount of regret science fiction writer
Neal Stephenson took to Kickstarter to
back a new project a video game centered
around realistic sword fighting the
project had over 9,000 backers behind it
who pledged a total of five hundred and
twenty six thousand dollars however
after some initial disappointment
regarding its delays Stephenson
announced its cancellation in September
2014 claiming insufficient funds and
significant personal financial loss many
people were understandably left upset
and without refunds and many pledged can
never back another Kickstarter project
again got a lot of people out there who
like to play games with sword fighting
him and who might be ready to step it up
to something a little bit more
interesting number two yaagh ventures
young ventures was set to be an
open-world game with the likenesses of
popular youtube channel yogscast lewis
and simon a gaming channel devoted to
minecraft world of warcraft and grand
theft auto among other things do they’re
very dedicated fanbase a ridiculous five
hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars
was raised for developmen
of their video game a video game which
surprise surprise never came to fruition
the project was abruptly canceled in
July of 2014 and the backers were given
access to a different game called tug
instead of a refund I’m sure they were
happy with that instead of just boxes
these boxes turn into like these nice
rolling hills and beautiful landscape
system number one the stomping land you
are a hunter and your primary source of
food is dinosaur meat of all the titles
on this list the stomping land had
perhaps the most ambition and promise
the game was set to be a multiplayer
oriented survival game set in a world
where humans and dinosaurs coexist it
was a relatively original concept and
many people seem to be on board as over
4000 backers raised 114 thousand dollars
in order to bring it to life after being
released through Steam early access in
2014
creator Alex Fedora was abducted by
aliens or something because all
communication with him abruptly ended
the game’s 3d character artist was also
forced to quit after his messages to
fund aura
went unanswered there are a ton of
things that you can do on silence you do
whatever you have to to advance your
gear and survive for as long as possible
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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