15 Most Expensive Games That Flopped

Psychonauts – $11.5 million

Speaking of “misfortune” and Tim Schafer, Double Fine Productions’ Psychonauts had an even worse run than Grim Fandango. Despite releasing on multiple platforms at the time, the psychedelic platformer sold less than 100,000 copies at launch. That’s with a budget of $11.5 million and a development time of 4.5 years. Though it’s sequel has finally been crowd-funded – with development also aided by a private investor – Psychonauts is perhaps one of the sadder financial failures of the past decade or so.