15 Most Expensive Games That Flopped

Brutal Legend – $20 to $25 million

Tim Schafer’s RTS meets Guitar Hero hybrid faced its fair share of development woes, including a lawsuit with Activision with regards to development fees. At the end, Brutal Legend was estimated to have cost $20-25 million to develop but only sold 215,000 copies when it launched in October 2009. Schafer did reveal later that by February 2011 the game had sold 1.4 million copies but there was already a feeling of “too little, too late” by that point.