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:* ''[[Spirit Island]]'' board game

** ''[[Star Citizen]]'' (The most crowdfunded project ever, has missed all promised deadlines<ref>Star Citizen/Squadron 42 and Cloud Imperium Games are mostly controversial for missing every promised deadline (2014... 2016... 2018...) and due to their most impressive technical feats being the upscaling of features and content that other games successfully implemented on a smaller scale first (rather than anything truly innovative). As of [[Perpetual Beta|Alpha 3.21]], it is in fact possible to explore an entire star system using 90% of the roster of previously announced ships and land vehicles, but [[Never Live It Down|most gamers are still of the perception that the game has made no progress at all]].</ref>, but as of December 2023 it is confirmed that the single player <s>campaign</s> companion game ''Squadron 42'' is feature complete, [[Genre Savvy|without announcing hard dates this time]], suggesting that ''Squadron 42'' will at least release by the end of 2024<ref>To be fair to Cloud Imperium Games, the efforts of a disgruntled and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|obsessive ex]]-[[Fan Dumb|fan]] from Brazil cooperating with a [[Derek Smart|rival]] of the [[Creator/Chris Roberts|CEO/Founder]] in the early days of the project to sabotage it [[Malicious Slander|purely using false accusations]], the existence of an actual scam "game" ("Star Atlas") that [[Follow The Leader|stole the business model]] and just added [[Landmark Sale|the promise of NFTs]] for [[Good for Bad|spaceships clearly composed of]] [[Plagiarism|parts stolen from]] ''[[Elite Dangerous]]'' and ''[[Star Citizen]]'' vehicles to the mix but is [[Vaporware|everything]] the [[Hatedom]] claims ''Star Citizen'' is, the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] affecting development and the community's offline interactions, and of course the likely unachievable level of [[Perpetual Beta|feature creep]] has not helped ''Star Citizen''{{'}}s [[Rainmaking|reputation]] among outsiders looking at Cloud Imperium Games from afar. Nor does the name of the official annual convention, [[Unfortunate Names|CitizenCon]]. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Best left]] at [[Natter|that]].</ref>)