Cancelled Immersive-Sim, Shoe-Platformer, 3D GBA Haunted House (Patreon)

Keeping up with our caring queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 3 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:

Decay [PC]: cancelled immersive-sim FPS that was in development by Insomnia Software starting from 1998 – 1999, planned to be published on PC by Interplay. Set in a modern / cyberpunk world, Decay was conceived as an ambitious sandbox RPG adventure, somehow similar to what players experienced two years later with Deus Ex. Their goal was to “Create the new breed of games. Games that are more realistic, more dynamic, better looking and with gameplay and storylines that pulls you straight in and makes you feel as if you’re really living in the gameworld”: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/07/13/decay-insomnia-software-cancelled/

Geox [Xbox]: Geox is an Italian brand of shoe and clothing manufactured with waterproof / breathable fabrics. For some reasons a Geox promotional video game was in development for the original Xbox, as found by a collector on their dev-kit. From the prototype footage uploaded on Youtube it looks like a simple side-scrolling platformer, in which the protagonist drops down from a flying Geox shoe. Could this have been a surreal masterpiece? Probably not: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/07/09/geox-video-game-xbox-cancelled/

The Haunted Mansion [GBA]: cancelled adventure game that was in development around 2002 – 2003 by Pocket Studios, planned to be published for GBA by TDK Mediactive. This canned Game Boy Advance version was quite impressive for its 3D graphic, something that was not common on the console: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/07/07/haunted-mansion-gba-cancelled/