Unseen64

Unseen64 is an historical archive with articles, screenshots and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change and cut creates a different gaming experience; so we started saving some documents of this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.

Since 2022 monokoma became a dad and with a new family and more responsibilities he cannot write new articles for Unseen64 anymore. We asked to our patrons what they would like to do with our website and they decided to keep donating to ensure we can still pay the server that keeps Unseen64 online, always available for everyone else.

Also, we'll create and upload a full U64 backup on Archive.org and create new accounts on the U64 website for people who’d like to write and publish articles in autonomy, so they may still add new games to the website. If you want to add new cancelled games to Unseen64, send us an email to [email protected]. We'll also open a Unseen64 Discord to let the new authors collaborate together easily and organize new articles in autonomy.

There are more than 3.000 unseen videogames currently saved in the Unseen64 archive: we are an independent website, we don't have marketing people or advertising.

Here's how pledges from Patreon help us:

Some example of what you can find in our website:

• Djinn, the cancelled spiritual successor to Diablo 2
• Buciyo 5, the lost GameCube game by the Space Channel 5 / REZ team
• Klepto, a previously unknown action adventure / stealth game planned for N64
• Phoenix, the lost XBOX SRPG cancelled by Bungie because of Halo's success
• Knights, a lost multiplayer brawler planned for Dreamcast by the same team which later created Killzone and Horizon: Zero Dawn
• the beta version of cult-following Dangaronpa
• the lost Harry Potter videogames pitches from Nintendo
• the legendary, Minecraft-alike Game Zero for GameCube
• what happened to the cancelled Black sequel
• the unseen development and cuts of Metroid Prime
• the only remaining video from the cancelled Maximo 3
• design documents from a lost Banjo Kazooie game for GBC
• the story behind the legendary Mario Takes America CDI game
• unreleased N64 games by fan-favorite DMA Design
• an interview with the original designer of the obscure Taito WOWOW console
• the story about the Kid Icarus Wii reboot from Factor 5
• the article on the development of Zelda 64
• memories for thousands of less known unseen games that still deserve to not be forgotten

Starting from 1$ a month, the cost of 1 cup of coffee, you can help a lot. You can donate as much as you want, and you can cancel your pledge at any point if you’re low on cash or have a change of heart.

Big gaming networks like IGN or Kotaku have the power and the money to have a team to work full-time on their website, to publish daily updates. We don't have their resources and without monokoma we cannot update the site anymore, but we hope we can keep online this museum  for all those games that could be forgotten forever.

Every cent is really appreciated and will be used for the Unseen64 Archive.