Every Canceled Blizzard Game That We Know of Thanks to a New Comprehensive History of the Studio

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For every major game released by a massive AAA gaming company, there are almost certainly piles upon piles of canceled games that we’ll never see, hear, or know about. Some canceled games may have gotten far enough in development that there are builds of them on an office PC somewhere, while others may never have gotten past the phase of creative leads doodling in notebooks and batting ideas about over drinks.

Blizzard Entertainment is no exception, but thanks to dogged reporting, audiences have been able to glean a sizeable snapshot over the years of its canceled catalog. There have been multiple excellent attempts to summarize every canceled Blizzard game we know about, but we think the time is ripe for another one. This is because Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has just released a brand new book, entitled Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. In it, Schreier tells the fascinating 30-year history of Blizzard through over 300 interviews of current and former employees. So, naturally, the book includes a number of anecdotes about canceled Blizzard games. Some of them we’ve heard of. Many of them – including a canceled Blizzard Star Wars game, a Warcraft/Pokemon GO hybrid – have never been revealed to the public before.

Using past reports combined with everything we read in Play Nice, we’ve compiled a new, definitive list of every canceled Blizzard project over the years and what we know about it. For more details, you’ll need to check out Schreier’s book, which we also interviewed him about in greater detail last month.

Not much is known about Games People Play and it doesn’t make an appearance in Play Nice, but Games People Play is cited in just about every list of canceled Blizzard games available. It’s listed on MobyGames as a crossword/word game that was in development in the early 1990s at Blizzard.

Only meriting a brief mention in Play Nice, Crixa was a top-down 2D space shooter with 3D spaceship models. It was developed by Qualia