Death & Destruction

date : 18-unreleased
licensing : licensed
state : cancelled
by : Origin Systems(developer), Origin Systems (publisher)
Developer Origin Systems featured a system where their developers could pitch game ideas to potentially have the company work on when they were looking to start new projects. Death and Destruction was outlined in a 2014 feature by Eurogamer documenting some of the standout abandoned ideas. It was described as a "mad scientist simulation. The player would be given two possible routes through the game, one where the player thoughtfully solves puzzles, with gameplay similar to The Incredible Machine, and one where the player can just choose to "go on a killing spree" with gameplay closer to Robotron. The game was pitched with design documents, but rejected on the grounds that it was estimated to cost too much money at the time.[56]