10 Announced Video Games That Are NEVER Coming Out

It’s incredibly easy to take for granted just how much work goes into producing even a mediocre video game – the sheer time and effort required to bring any game to market is absolutely back-breaking, and as the industry is proving at present, development cycles only keep getting longer.

A major AAA game can easily take between five and ten years to be released, then, yet sometimes a game spends so long in the oven that fans and analysts alike start to lose hope of it ever coming out.

And that’s absolutely true of these 10 video games, each of which were announced a long, long time ago and still haven’t made it into our hands.

Again, games development is extremely challenging and there are any number of creative and business hurdles which can stall production, but sometimes things drag on long enough that it’s tough to believe the game is ever actually going to be completed.

If these 10 games ever see the light of day, players will be shocked, and probably won’t really believe it until they’re actually playing for themselves. Here’s hoping, but the smart money is sadly on it never happening…

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most beloved RPGs of all time, despite how undeniably dated it is, and so there was tremendous excitement when Aspyr and Sony announced a remake in September 2021.

We’re now coming up on four years since the announcement, though, and we’ve seen not a single sliver of gameplay – a concerning fact even with the protracted nature of modern AAA games development.

More unsettlingly, reports have detailed a challenging production, with Aspyr firing numerous prominent team members, after which the developer was removed from the project and replaced with Saber Interactive.

By 2023, insider Jeff Grubb called the game “dead,” and to make matters even worse, Saber was sold off by its parent company Embracer in March 2024. 

This past March Saber CCO Tim Willits made a vague reference to the game still being in development, but considering we’ve seen nothing to date, it’s tough to have any faith in this ambitious remake ever actually coming to market.