All The Games We Might Lose Forever When Google Stadia Dies

Released in October 2021, this is the newest exclusive on the list. Hello Engineer is described by the devs as a “multiplayer machinery-building construction game” and is set in the same universe as the popular horror game, Hello Neighbor.

PixelJunk Raiders

This is a poorly reviewed third-person roguelike action game from the folks at Q-Games, the same devs who made The Tomorrow Children and the other PixelJunk games.) It does have a neat feature where players can share a screenshot and others can hop into that game state using just that image. But the rest of the game sounds kind of dull.

Outcasters

Developed by Splash Damage, Outcasters is a top-down online multiplayer combat game that features characters that look like they fell out of a Fall Guys knock-off. While some players had good things to say about Outcasters, it hasn’t found the audience it needed, even after going free-to-play, and it sounds like these days it’s mostly a ghost town.

PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle

Released in 2020, Mega Tunnel Battle combines the classic Pac-Man arcade game with a battle royale. Up to 64 players can play together, competing to be the last Pac-Man standing while using a mix of new and returning power-ups across retro-inspired maps.

GYLT

GYLT is a third-person horror game starring a young girl and is considered by many Stadia fans to possibly be the best exclusive game released on the service. It was developed by Tequilla Works and is about six hours long, packed with some decent jump scares, puzzles and combat. Nothing super special, but a solid game that will hopefully get ported to Steam or Switch so more folks can enjoy GYLT for years to come.

While some of these games aren’t incredible and I doubt many people would care if they never got to play them again, losing them would still be a shame. Video game preservation is important if we want to save this art form’s history and show how it has evolved and changed over decades of innovation and new technology. Losing these games to the void, even if some of them aren’t all that great, would suck.

Hopefully, the devs and publishers involved can and will port them to other platforms. If that doesn’t happen, they’ll die forever when Google kills the Stadia servers, as not even pirates were able to rip and share the games online. A sad end to games that people likely spent years working on.