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Robin Valentine

These 15 PC games died for our sins—can you even remember their names?

Four people in armour stand atop a desert landscape. The far left one faces away from camera in black armour, a barbarian with their face covered by a mask stands next to them. A female with medium-length brown hair and white shimmering armour duel wields guns, one held up and one pointing out to her right. Below her outstretched gun an archer crouches, their face obscured by an elaborate headdress.

It's a sad truth of this industry that some games simply get lost to time. Servers get shut down, listings get removed from storefronts, and releases we were once excited for get forgotten. That's if they even made it to launch in the first place.

So, this is a quiz, but it's also a bit of a memorial. Let's test how short our memories truly are. All you have to do is look at each of the screenshots, and correctly identify which dead game they belong to.

It would've been a bit too easy if I put Concord in the quiz, eh? (Image credit: PlayStation)

Some were flops who shut their servers down soon after launch. Some were cancelled while still in open beta or Early Access. Some killed their studio. The important thing is, all of them were publicly available to play on PC in an official form for a period of time, but now aren't.

So cast your mind back to some of the most high-profile failures of recent years and decades past, from doomed multiplayer shooters, to the victims of the MOBA boom, to MMOs that swung at the king and missed.

Let us know your score in the comments—and perhaps pay tribute to your favourite gone-but-not-forgotten game.

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