An index for video games that have never seen the light of day but still have a page on this wiki.
A unique characteristic of video games is that their development usually takes multiple years and is often comparatively public—in the sense that enough plot details are leaked before the release that dedicated tropers can make a page about them even in the unfortunate event of a Cancellation.
See also Screwed by the Network and What Could Have Been. For games that are in the midst of Development Hell, but have yet to be officially cancelled, see Vaporware.
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- Æon Flux (1996) (reworked into Pax Corpus)
- Akka Arrh (had a limited location test, full release cancelled. Leaked as a ROM in 2019, then officially released on Arcade 1-Up's Atari Legacy cabinet in 2021, and the Atari 50 compilation for consoles in 2022.)
- Allison Road
- Arena of Fate
- Atmosfear
- Barkley 2: Curse of Cuchulainn (project files were released as open source in 2021)
- Bio Force Ape
- Bobby's World (fully finished but never officially released)
- Bonk: Brink of Extinction
- The California Raisins: The Grape Escape
- Capcom Fighting All-Stars (had a limited location-test; full release cancelled. Reworked into Capcom Fighting Evolution)
- Card Saga Wars (a circa 2011 prototype was released in 2018, but development has long been discontinued)
- Castlevania: Resurrection
- Cheetahmen II
- The City of Metronome
- Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes
- ClayFighter Extreme
- ClayFighter: Call of Putty
- Colossal Kaiju Combat!
- Command & Conquer (2013)
- Daredevil The Man Without Fear
- Dawngate (never made it out of the public beta before the official server support was turned off)
- The Dead Linger
- Dimension Spark (has several demos, but never went any further than that)
- Dinosaur Planet (reworked into Star Fox Adventures)
- Divinity: Fallen Heroes
- Everybody Edits Universe (available in private beta, but development is discontinued)
- Fallout: Van Buren
- Fez 2
- Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Remastered
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Final Fantasy XV as it was originally conceived by Tetsuya Nomura before being not just rebranded but heavily retooled into what many fans consider to be a different game entirely.)
- Final Fight: Seven Sons
- Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe
- Fire Emblem 64 (developed for the ill-fated Nintendo 64 DD. Reworked into Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade for the Game Boy Advance)
- Five Nights at Freddy's Plus
- Grand Dad Mania
- Homestrife
- HYENAS
- In the Groove 3 (had a limited location test, full release cancelled due to Konami's lawsuit)
- Jelly Boy 2
- Jet Moto 2124
- Lily Bergamo (reworked into Let It Die)
- Lobo 1996
- It Came from the Desert (2001)
- Marble Man: Marble Madness 2 (had a limited location-test; full release cancelled)
- Maui Mallard and the Lost City of Dread (reworked into the Hercules licensed game)
- Mega Man Legends 3
- Metaforce
- Monster Girl Island (free trial since 2019, no full release)
- Nuclear Union
- Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
- Project Rap Rabbit
- Red Ash
- Robotech: Crystal Dreams (only made it to the demo stage before Gametek went out of business)
- Scalebound
- SegaSonic Bros. (had a limited location-test; full release cancelled)
- Shadow Realms
- Silent Hills
- Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill
- Sonic X-treme
- Starcraft: Ghost
- Star Fox 2 (finished but unreleased until 2017)
- Star Wars 1313
- Star Wars: Maul
- Star Wars: Ragtag
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure
- Sunman (originally a Superman Licensed Game, then reworked into a Captain Ersatz before being scrapped entirely)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2.5
- Swordquest: Airworld
- Tattoo Assassins (had a limited location-test; full release cancelled)
- The Terminator (Sunsoft) (reworked into Journey to Silius)
- Thrill Kill
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe
- Titan Warriors (nearly finished but unreleased NES sequel to Vulgus)
- Transformers Universe (only made it into beta)
- Twelve Tales: Conker 64 (reworked into Conker's Bad Fur Day)
- Twisted Metal: Harbor City (some of its content appeared as bonus material in the Updated Re-release of Twisted Metal: Head-On)
- Unreal Tournament 4 (never made it out of pre-alpha, set to inaccessibility on January 24, 2023
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- Warcraft Adventures Lord Of The Clans (virtually finished but unreleased, the basic plot made into a novel)
