Square Enix and Tozai Games announced back in January that their free-to-play PlayStation 4 title, Spelunker World, would be coming to an end in July. I haven’t actively played the game in about 4 years but I spent some time brushing up over the weekend and recorded just under an hour of footage. It’s honestly
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News on upcoming delistings, server shutdowns, and studio closures. Anything that might signify an upcoming delisting will be posted here and may serve as a tentative page for a game until it is officially taken offline. Also accounts for any site news or happenings within the Delisted community.
The Golf Club 2 poised for delisting after June 30th
The Golf Club 2 publisher, Maximum Games, posted on Steam on April 27th to announce that the game would “no longer be available for sale from Maximum Games” after June 30th, 2020. That phrasing is vague enough to have fans worried about previous entries in the series from developer HB Studios as well as The
An update on Me and the Site
There’s no sugarcoating this news: last Friday I was fired (not furloughed) from my job. I’ve been struggling over whether to share the news here on the site but decided that I should say something sooner rather than later in case it impacts Delisted Games down the road. I won’t go into personal details but
New page on the site organizes all the developers and publishers behind Delisted Games
I don’t know if anyone has ever noticed, but among the options in the search bar at the top of the site was a dropdown of all the developers and publishers on the site. I noticed a week or so ago that the dropdown has a hard limit and it wasn’t showing every company because
Humans-vs-Werewolves royale, Don’t Even Think, shuts down in August
Dark Horse Game Studio and Perfect World announced on May 14th that their free-to-play, asymmetrical, battle royale-like, Don’t Even Think, for PlayStation 4 will be shutting down on August 14th. The full announcement follows: We have been indebted to your attention and support ever since the official launch of “Don’t Even Think” (DET). Due to
Growtopia shutting down on consoles July 30th
The Growtopia team announced on April 27th, 2020 that the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch versions of the game will be shut down at the end of July. These versions were released in July of 2019 and apparently did’t garner a big enough audience or generate enough income from microtransaction purchases to continue
Two LEGO Lord of the Rings titles return on Steam
While the gaming headlines are abuzz with the first sightings of Daedalic Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, another pair of Tolkienian titles are making a newsworthy return, at least around these parts. Both LEGO The Lord of the Rings and LEGO The Hobbit returned to sale on Steam just over a week ago
Ziggurat brings more delisted classics back to sale
As promised just a month ago, publisher Ziggurat Interactive has made good on their plans to bring a slew of new-old PC games to Steam and GOG.com. Alongside debut releases like Purple Saturn Day and Fields of Glory are four previously delisted games making their return: Killing Time Uprising: Join or Die Uprising 2: Lead
Rival Games shutdown takes The Detail offline “soon”
Rival Games CEO, Jukka Laakso, announced in a blog post April 10th that the studio would soon be shut down. After mounting debt and financial losses over the years, the coronavirus pandemic ultimately put potential investors and aid out of reach for the studio. Laakso admitted, “the raging coronavirus is just the icing on the
Code of Princess to be removed from 3DS eShop on March 31st
Code of Princess, Studio Saizensen’s 2012 action-RPG for the Nintendo 3DS, is being delisted… again. We first added the game to the site after it was removed in March of 2019 but at some point it made an unannounced return. With nearly as little fanfare it is once again going away, this time seemingly for
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition pulled from Steam, PlayStation versions next?
In an unannounced and unanticipated move, Warner Bros. Interactive has pulled Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (aka Mortal Kombat 9) off of Steam. The removal happened on March 20th when the game’s price was set to $0.00 making it unable to be purchased. The only explanation is the familiar boilerplate wording on the game’s Steam store
In Space We Brawl leaving Steam on March 17th
Publisher Playism and developer Forge Reply announced on March 4th that their couch combat title, In Space We Brawl, will be removed from Steam on March 17th. The game has been on an 80% off sale since the announcement: Hello brawlers! We have some sad news concerning multiplayer space shooter In Space We Brawl. It