Every Video Game Canceled in 2025

While it's often a substance of past resort, video crippled cancellations are unluckily a world of the games industry.

There's nary azygous origin for wherefore games don’t scope the decorativeness enactment aft months, oregon much often, years of development. Reasons for canceled games scope from fast-shifting marketplace dynamics and firm restructuring to ballooning improvement costs and different originative challenges.

In 2025, 17 games person been confirmed oregon reliably reported to beryllium canceled truthful far. Each of these games is listed below, ordered chronologically by the authoritative announcement, oregon a report, of its cancellation.

Transformers: Reactivate

On January 8, 2025, it was announced that Transformers: Reactivate, an online enactment crippled successful improvement astatine the Tencent-owned workplace Splash Damage (Gears Tactics), was canceled. A connection shared connected the studio's X relationship did not supply a crushed for the cancellation.

"This determination did not travel lightly, and it is simply a hard clip for the workplace and our people," Splash Damage said astatine the time. "We privation to instrumentality a infinitesimal to convey the squad who worked connected Transformers for their dedication and passion."

Transformers: Reactivate was archetypal announced successful December 2022 astatine the Game Awards.

Two Unannounced PlayStation Live-service Games

On January 16, 2025, Bloomberg reported Sony had canceled 2 unannounced PlayStation games: a live-service task successful improvement astatine Bend Studio (Days Gone) and a live-service God of War crippled successful improvement astatine Bluepoint Games (Demon’s Souls remake).

Sony confirmed successful a abstracted connection that contempt the cancellations, neither Bend Studio nor Bluepoint Games would beryllium unopen down, and that Sony would enactment with the studios to find their "next projects."

While reasons for the cancellations weren’t reported, the decisions whitethorn person been related to Sony’s erstwhile efforts to downsize its live-service plans. PlayStation had antecedently shuttered Concord developer Firewalk Studio and canceled different live-service projects specified arsenic Naughty Dog's The Last of Us multiplayer game, a rumored Spider-Man online game, a live-service Twisted Metal game, and a Destiny spinoff called Payback.

Earthblade

On January 22, 2025, Extremely OK Games announced that it had canceled Earthblade, a 2D platformer meant to beryllium a follow-up to its celebrated platformer, Celeste. The quality of the cancellation came 3 years aft Earthblade was archetypal revealed astatine the 2022 Game Awards.

In a blog station explaining the cancellation, Extremely OK Games revealed the determination to cancel Earthblade was made successful December 2024 pursuing a disagreement betwixt members of the workplace and a erstwhile creation manager implicit the IP rights to Celeste. In the aftermath of the dispute, the squad evaluated the authorities of Earthblade and decided it wasn’t “as acold on arsenic 1 would expect aft specified a protracted improvement process.”

The workplace said it's present "prototyping again and exploring astatine our ain pace, and trying to rediscover crippled improvement successful a mode person to however we approached it astatine Celeste's oregon TowerFall's inception."

Football Manager 25

Football Manager 25 was canceled connected February 6, 2025. It's the archetypal clip the yearly sports sim has skipped a merchandise successful its 21-year history.

Football Manager 25 had been delayed doubly anterior to the authoritative cancellation, and the determination to extremity improvement yet came erstwhile developer Sports Interactive concluded it “would not execute the modular required [to merchandise the game], adjacent with the adjusted timeline.” The workplace specifically cited issues with “the overarching subordinate acquisition and interface.”

Sports Interactive is expected to resume the bid with the merchandise of Football Manager 26 aboriginal this year.

Wonder Woman

In February 2025 it was announced that the Wonder Woman crippled was canceled and the developers, Monolith Productions, would beryllium unopen down. Wonder Woman would person been the studio's follow-up to its acclaimed Middle-earth seires, and was expected to utilize its patented Nemesis system.

The determination came from genitor company/publisher Warner Bros. amidst a firm restructuring. In a statement, a Warner Bros. spokesperson said, “Our anticipation was to springiness players and fans the highest prime acquisition imaginable for the iconic character, and unluckily this is nary longer imaginable wrong our strategical priorities."

Following Wonder Woman's cancellation, comic writer Gail Simone, who worked connected the project, said the now-canceled crippled was "gorgeous and expansive," adding, "[Monolith] made definite it had WW and DC lore connected each facet of the game."

Wonder Woman was archetypal announced astatine the 2021 Game Awards.

Respawn Multiplayer FPS

An unannounced, multiplayer first-person shooter from Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment was canceled successful aboriginal March 2025. It was considered an incubation project, meaning it was successful the precise aboriginal days of its development.

IGN reported the shooter was being worked connected by a radical of Respawn developers that spun disconnected from the squad creating a Star Wars first-person shooter that was canceled successful aboriginal 2024.

New Titanfall Game

A period later, Bloomberg reported EA had canceled an unannounced Titanfall crippled arsenic portion of wider cuts to the institution that impacted astir 300 workers. Of the 300 employees affected by the layoffs, 100 came from Respawn Entertainment, wherever this Titanfall task and the aforementioned multiplayer shooter were successful development. No further details astir the task were reported.

Titanfall is simply a fan-favorite FPS bid that launched arsenic a tentpole console exclusive for Microsoft’s Xbox One successful 2014. A multiplatform sequel, released successful 2016, was lauded for its summation of a single-player story, which IGN named the second-best FPS run of each time.

Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link

Square Enix canceled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link connected May 14, 2025. The planned mobile crippled was acceptable to beryllium an action-RPG that told a brand-new Kingdom Hearts communicative and would utilize Pokemon GO-like GPS mechanics.

In a connection from Square Enix, Missing-Link was canceled erstwhile it was “determined that it would beryllium hard to connection a work that players would find satisfactory implicit a agelong play of time.”

Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link was announced alongside Kingdom Hearts 4 successful April 2022. As portion of the cancellation announcement, Square assured fans improvement of the adjacent mainline Kingdom Hearts is ongoing.

Battle Aces

An action-focused real-time strategy crippled called Battle Aces was canceled connected May 23, 2025. It was successful improvement for PC and acceptable to beryllium developer Uncapped Games’ debut release.

“Battle Aces represented a bold imaginativeness — our effort to reimagine real-time strategy for a caller generation,” the workplace wrote connected Steam. “We acceptable retired to make thing fast, tactical, and approachable, portion inactive delivering the extent that makes RTS special.”

Development was stopped owed to “the returns from aboriginal investigating [not being] beardown capable to enactment continued development.”

EA’s Black Panther

The 2nd comics-based crippled canceled successful 2025 was EA's Black Panther game. The cancellation, announced connected May 28, 2025, came alongside the closure of Cliffhanger Games, which was processing Black Panther arsenic its archetypal project.

Speaking to the cancellation and accompanying layoffs, EA said the determination was made to "sharpen our absorption and enactment our originative vigor down the astir important maturation opportunities."

Black Panther was planned arsenic a single-player, open-world crippled and was led by Kevin Stephens, erstwhile workplace caput of the now-shuttered Monolith Productions. Cliffhanger was besides comprised of seasoned crippled developers who antecedently worked connected titles similar Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Halo Infinite, God of War, and Call of Duty.

Black Panther was announced successful July 2023 and was successful improvement arsenic portion of EA's multi-game woody with Marvel. EA said Black Panther’s cancellation hasn’t affected the operation of the woody and volition inactive make astatine slightest 3 Marvel games, opening with EA Motive’s Iron Man.

Hytale

Hytale, a Minecraft-inspired sandbox game, was canceled successful June 2025 alongside the closure of the developer Hypixel Studios.

In a statement, Hypixel said it “couldn’t bring Hytale to beingness successful a mode that genuinely delivered connected its promise.” The developer said it required “a batch much clip to get [Hytale] to a spot wherever it could enactment the ambitious imaginativeness for the game” and compromising connected that imaginativeness wasn't an option, arsenic “it wouldn’t person been the crippled we acceptable retired to make.”

Hytale began improvement successful 2015 by a radical of developers who antecedently worked unneurotic connected a Minecraft multiplayer server called Hypixel. Riot helped money Hytale earlier acquiring Hypixel Studios successful 2020.

Perfect Dark

On July 2, 2025, Microsoft announced implicit 9000 layoffs, including roles astatine Xbox. As portion of the cuts, Xbox canceled its Perfect Dark reboot and shuttered its developer, The Initiative. Perfect Dark was besides being co-developed by Tomb Raider workplace Crystal Dynamics.

Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty confirmed the cancellation successful an interior email obtained by IGN. “We person made the determination to halt improvement of Perfect Dark and Everwild arsenic good arsenic upwind down respective unannounced projects crossed our portfolio,” it read. “As portion of this, we are closing 1 of our studios, The Initiative. These decisions, on with different changes crossed our teams, bespeak a broader effort to set priorities and absorption resources to acceptable up our teams for greater occurrence wrong a changing manufacture landscape."

The Initiative was built from the ground-up by Xbox to beryllium a first-party workplace that acceptable retired to marque "AAAA" games for Microsoft. The reboot of the classical 2000 FPS developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 was the studio's archetypal and lone project.

Perfect Dark was revealed astatine the 2020 Game Awards followed by a debut gameplay trailer successful June 2024.

Everwild

Rare’s Everwild was canceled alongside Perfect Dark connected July 2, 2025.

Xbox confirmed the cancellation to employees successful the aforementioned interior email from Xbox’s Matt Booty, which cited “a broader effort to set priorities and absorption resources to acceptable up our teams for greater occurrence wrong a changing manufacture landscape."

Everwild was acceptable to beryllium the archetypal caller crippled from storied developer Rare since its 2018 live-service pirate crippled Sea of Thieves. Rare announced Everwild successful November 2019, and the crippled was reportedly a third-person escapade acceptable successful “a earthy and magical world,” though authoritative details were ne'er revealed.

Following the cancellation, VGC reported 35-year Rare seasoned Gergg Mayles would beryllium leaving the studio. Among his galore accomplishments, Mayles directed the N64 classical Banjo-Kazooie and served arsenic originative manager connected Sea of Thieves. He was overseeing the improvement of Everwild anterior to its cancellation.

ZeniMax Online’s New MMO

Lastly, Xbox cancelled an unannounced MMO from ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online) successful July 2025.

Codenamed Blackbird, the crippled was said to beryllium a new, sci-fi IP without ties to The Elder Scrolls oregon Fallout. It had been successful improvement since 2018, sources told IGN, and was approaching afloat production.

The Blackbird improvement squad was laid disconnected successful conjunction with the cancellation. ZeniMax Online Studios manager Matt Firor, who held that presumption since the studio’s founding successful 2007, besides announced he’d beryllium stepping down. He’ll beryllium succeeded by workplace wide manager Joseph Burba.

Two Games from Dying Light Developer Techland

On July 4, 2025, Polish Media outlet Pulz Biznesu reported Dying Light workplace Techland had canceled 2 in-development games.

Techland acknowledged the study to Eurogamer, and said successful a statement, "Game improvement is ne'er a consecutive line, and sometimes caller approaches are indispensable to marque large games.” Techland besides confirmed nary jobs were chopped owed to “the reported changes.”

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.