It's now been 10 years exactly since this poll was opened. Out of curiosity, I thought I'd check how many of the highly anticipated games listed actually came out. The following games were released:
Fez
Night Game (as NightSky)
Super Meat Boy
Gratuitous Space Battles
Cute Knight Kingdom
Fatale
Gridrunner+++ (as Gridrunner Revolution)
Closure (remake)
The Blackwell Convergence
Love Game (as LOVE)
Eschalon: Book II
Owlboy
Divine Comedy
RunMan: Race Around the World
Snapshot
Dyson (as Eufloria)
Overgrowth
Achron
Machinarium
The Age of Decadence
GENETOS
Limbo
AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake)
Skullpogo (remake)The following were abandoned or remain unreleased:
The Underside
Marian
Joe no Geimu
Solar Plexus
Sword of Legends
ArcMagi
Saturated Dreamers
Studio Pixel's upcoming RPG
Brain-Damaged Toon Underworld
Avaus
Velella
Subversion
Bob's Game
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Episode 2
Conflux
Hitlers Must Die
Project Rhapsody
Gish 2
Mondo Nation
Card Sagas Wars
Indie Brawl
Minus World (as far as I know)
Ceillus
Eversion 2 (aka #00FFFF-2)In total,
24 were released, and
24 have not been. Exactly
50/50!
I also thought I'd check out how
the 2011 version of the poll stacked up. Looking just at new additions to that poll, the following games have been released:
Spelunky (XBLA remake)
Voxatron
Scoregasm
The Witness
Journey
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Retro City Rampage
Spy Party
Antichamber
Infested Planet
Trine 2
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Nidhogg
Aces Wild Baby (as Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action!)
Polymaniacs
Dungeon Defenders
Driftmoon
Confetti Carnival (as Super Splatters)
Avernum (remake) (as Avernum: Escape from the Pit)
Dead State
Hadean Lands
Cinders
Dstroyd (as Cannon Brawl)
Rigonauts
To the Moon
La Mulana (Wii)
Cave Story 3D
Diamond Trust of London
Cell: Emergence
Children of Liberty (although early access and unupdated for 5 years)
Lone Survivor
Dyad
Iconoclasts
The Binding of Isaac
The Real Texas
Scrolls (as Caller's Bane)
Cobalt
Resonance
Skullgirls
Hyper Princess Pitch
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution DLC
Dead Block (seemingly released a month prior to the poll's creation?)
Chivalry (presumably Chivalry: Medieval Warfare?)
Skulls of the Shogun
Natural Selection 2
Gemini Wars
Take On Helicopters
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Hawken
Blocks that Matter
Phantasmaburbia
Tick Tock Isle…While the following games were abandoned or remain unreleased:
Tuning
Captain Jameson
Nexus City
Grapple Buggy
Cletus Clay (now Clodhoppers)
Lottie's Dungeon (I think?)
DaggerXL
MadHouse HD
Spuck
Melolune
Myriad Online
Asylum (couldn't confirm what this was)
Rockfish
The Archer
Café
An Invitation to Neverwhere
The Indie Game Legend 2
Solipsius
Akuchizoku
Naumachia: Space Warfare
Jet Thunder
The Salvage
Miegakure
Loot Pursuit
In Momentum (couldn't confirm what this was)
Dicta Boelcke
Sketchbrawlers Kicks Ass
The Island
Solar Reboot
JForce: Unstoppable
Intelligent Frog Family
Legend of Iya
Generic (couldn't confirm what this was)
Life+
Super Banana NababaOf these new additions,
53 were released and only
35 have not been. That's a completion rate of
60%. What an improvement!
I counted early access titles as released, but games with demos as unreleased, which is pretty debatable, but the line had to be drawn somewhere. I hope you enjoyed this necro-bump to end all necro-bumps.