Canceled games can be a huge disappointment for fans. Games that are unreleased or stuck in development hell are often just as soul-crushing as games that get an official cancelation. What's even worse is when these games had the potential to be revolutionary for the video game industry.

Several games were not only anticipated but also set to bring innovations to whatever genre they're set to release for. This was very much apparent in the 2010s as several would-be gaming landmarks saw their unfortunate cancelation or were stuck in the void of endless delays. Here are five video games that could've defined gaming in the 2010s if they had ever come out.

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Scalebound (Canceled)

Scalebound Art

This dragon commanding action-RPG game from PlatinumGames had an incredibly appealing concept. Players would control Drew and be in the command of a dragon named Thuban. The game was said to feature a mixture of third-person action and strategic gameplay, with Drew commanding Thuban to create an action-focused and tense combat experience.

Scalebound was officially canceled on January 9, 2017, with PlatinumGames lead Atsushi Inaba explaining later that he felt both the publisher, Microsoft, and PlatinumGames made missteps with the production of the game, with no single party responsible. Scalebound certainly was an ambitious title, with the game boasting a huge range of gameplay mechanics and features that would've provided a whole new level of complexity to the genre of action-RPGs.

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Starfield (No Release Date)

Bethesda Starfield

Bethesda's E3 conference in 2018 was a historic one, though not for the best of reasons. Even though Fallout 76 would disappoint fans on launch and there'd be a long wait before The Elder Scrolls 6, there was a very promising announcement that could've been huge for RPGs. Bethesda announced Starfield, their first original RPG in 25 years. Since that announcement, however, there's been no news on the project's development.

A new Bethesda IP would be a huge deal, as the company has really only been known for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout over the last decade. With Starfield supposedly having been in development for years before the announcement, a lack of any updates on the project as of recent doesn't seem to bode well. However, it can be said that Starfield could see Bethesda return to form with a new engine and revolutionize the RPG genre...if it ever comes out, that is.

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Agent (Development Hell/Potentially Canceled)

Rockstar Games' Agent was originally set to release in the late 2000s, with Rockstar Games claiming that it would change how people played stealth games. Agent was planned to be a Cold War-era stealth and espionage game. Agent was meant to set a new industry standard, though no new information on the title (outside of some leaked concept art) never surfaced after its 2009 announcement.

Since 2009, Rockstar Games consistently expressed excitement and hope towards the game's development, though publisher TakeTwo remained oddly silent when it came to Agent. The game's trademark was continuously renewed until 2018, when it was reported that the trademark was finally abandoned. This is certainly disappointing information that could very much allude to the game's unofficial cancelation. With the amount of hype Rockstar Games was putting behind the title, Agent could have changed the future of stealth games.

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Star Wars: Project Ragtag (Canceled)

Visceral Ragtag game

Picture this: a tactical heist game in the Star Wars universe after the events of A New Hopemade by the masterminds behind Dead Space. What sounds like an amazing and original concept would never come to be when Electronic Arts shut down development studio Visceral Games.  Project Ragtag had been in development since Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars universe in 2013 and was described as a space-pirate game, where the player would assume control of a team of space scoundrels.

Given that Star Wars games often put players in the shoes of Jedi or troopers, the idea of seeing the Star Wars universe from the eyes of a smuggler was an amazingly original concept that could've gone down as one of the most creative Star Wars games of all time. EA and Visceral Games, reportedly, ran into conflicts of interest with Ragtag, as EA was concerned about the lack of any identifiable Star Wars characters, which led to the game's October 2017 cancellation.

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P.T / Silent Hills (Canceled)

P.T. demo Silent Hill Lisa

One of the more infamous canceled games in recent memory, P.T served as a promising (and playable) teaser for a long-awaited game in the beloved horror franchise, Silent Hill. The project would also be one of Hideo Kojima's last with publisher Konami.  P.T would be playable up until the game was delisted from all online retailers and officially confirmed to be canceled in 2015, with backwards compatibility for the game with PS5 being revoked as well.

P.T was hailed as a revolutionary horror experience by many within both the video game and horror communities. Silent Hills may actually be a canceled game that still went on to have a significant impact on the industry. Not only did a fan of P.T receive an internship from Konami for his impressive Unity remake of the game, but Silent Hills would find somewhat of a second life with the critically acclaimed Death Stranding.

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