10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Were Cancelled In 2023
8. Hyenas
Sega unveiled their new extraction shooter Hyenas back in June 2022, with Total War and Alien: Isolation team Creative Assembly developing the project.
The reveal trailer certainly did a solid job showing off the game's vibrant art style, even if opinion was firmly divided on both its edgy tone and "necessity" in an already wildly overcrowded live-service shooter market.
And so it wasn't a massive shock when, in September, Sega confirmed that Hyenas had been cancelled, while a subsequent report from Video Games Chronicle revealed that, after spending over six years in development, it became Sega's most expensive game ever, topping the colossal $70 million price tag of 1999's Shenmue. Yikes.
Creative Assembly implied the cancellation occurred due to multiplayer shooters being such an oversaturated genre, while anonymous developers who worked on it claim that the project suffered from mismanagement behind-the-scenes.
Sega themselves reportedly weren't happy with the game's recent closed Alpha tests, and after changing Hyenas from a full-fat retail release to a free-to-play model with microtransactions, finally made the call to toss it out entirely.