The original version of the game even held a special in-game event that was marketed as the fourth season of the TV show, after SyFy cancelled the show in 2015.Īll the way in 2018, the game was relaunched as Defiance 2050 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, which updated and consolidated a lot of key gameplay features, but after just a few years, the game was shut down in 2021, with pretty much all traces of the game’s forums deleted too. The TV show has long since been cancelled, while the game originally launched on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, going free to play after a year. Perhaps the game’s biggest selling point was the fact that hundreds of players could get involved in various world events and fight massive bosses, which was about as chaotic yet enjoyable as it sounds. A paid MMO tie-in to a science fiction TV show, Defiance saw players create characters to explore the expansive post-apocalyptic world set forth by the TV show. Those who’ve downloaded the game can still create and play worlds, but on Xbox, there’s no way to share content with other players.

Unfortunately, Project Spark never seemed to pull in the same amount of critical, commercial and mainstream success that the likes of LittleBigPlanet or, more recently, Dreams, have achieved.Īfter being made completely free-to-play without microtransactions in 2015, it only took a few months for the game to be pulled from storefronts in 2016. Whether it was platformer, racing game or mini-RPG, you’d be able to create something for anyone. Announced in 2013 before a launch a year later, Project Spark allowed players to create and share levels and game worlds from across a variety of genres. Without meaning to, it seems like we’ve taken it upon ourselves to remember Project Spark, the creation tool/system exclusive to Xbox and PC that died a death after only a few years. With that in mind, here’s 10 of the biggest Xbox games that you can’t actually play anymore. While this list certainly isn’t an exhaustive collection of every single game that has been removed from the Xbox One store that remains unable to buy or play properly to this day, this list does contain some of the more notable omissions from the Microsoft Store. It’s a sad state of affairs, but unfortunately, digital gaming isn’t truly safe and there’s been some unfortunate casualties, especially on the Xbox One.

However, this means that these games are much more susceptible to be removed via delisting, as licensing issues and other myriads of problems cause games to be deleted forever.

The increase of digital games has allowed players to enjoy a much greater selection of games than ever before, because it’s much easier to distribute games across digital storefronts.

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